The Ticket

[Genre : Romance/Ensemble]

My Rating: 6.75ish/10

Tagline: Stories of Love. From the City of Love.

Paris Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) is an ensemble of short love stories, in and about Paris .. the city of love ...

Each track in the movie is directed by one in the huge list of directors(20) credited for the movie including the Cohen brothers(Fargo, Miller's Crossing .. ), Gus Van Sant(Good Will Hunting) ... and Gurinder Chaddha :)

Some of the tracks I liked .. TOW
- the old couple at the end, with sharp subtle retorts
- with the blind boy and natalie portman
- with the gorgeous Muslim girl :D
- with Steve Buschemi for its sheer insanity
- with the black sweeper and the lady in the parking lot

The others were either too short, weak or plain stupid ( watch out for the one with the Vampires .. lol )

The movie triggered an orthogonal thought, will put it to words soon at :D.

Labels: 2006, romance

[ Genre : Historical Drama ]

My Rating : 7-ish/10

"Give us us free" shouts the black man, the tale of human right to freedom .. in times where slavery was a part of life, an 'inseparable' one .. but that changed soon!

The very loud Djimon Hounsou is the slave who has been pushed around too far, and would go any lengths to return home. Denied the right to judgement over and over again, from one court to another ... lands them at the Supreme court .. where 7 of the 9 member jury are themselves slave owners!

The right in question is not of property, but the ever so assumed right to be free ..

Movie highpoint - none to me! Good enuf to want you to see the end really ..