Apocalypse Now
Set during the Vietnam war, the movie was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It follows Captain Benjamin Willard’s mission to find Col. Walter Kurtz, who has gone rogue. It is a journey into the utter darkness that exists within every human heart if one sees enough horrors, losing oneself gradually.
Udaan
Inspiring, and beautiful, this is Rohan’s story of soaring high on his own, away from his apathetic father, who insists on making an engineer out of a storyteller.
Shame
Watching Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan play Brandon and Sissy, a psychologically unstable brother and sister, each dealing with their condition in entirely opposite ways — Brandon finding comfort in distance, coldness, and addiction to sex, and emotionally wrecked Sissy, trying to get close to Brandon — could, potentially, break you too.
Children of Men
Theo, an uninspired, alcoholic, middle-aged man, finds his redemption, as he journeys, in a dystopian London of the near future, to escort a healthy refugee girl out of England, for a handsome reward.
Blue Valentine
What sums up this exquisite film is Ryan Gosling singing to Michelle Williams, “ So if I broke your heart last night, it’s because I love you most of all .” It’s Dean’s and Cindy’s story in two timelines, before and years after marriage, poignant, polar opposites of falling in and out of love.
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