Batman Begins

I have been having plans for sometime to see the recently released Batman film , The Dark Knight which is creating box office records world wide. Hence I wanted to see the prequel, Batman Begins.

Batman Begins tells the story of Batman from the beginning. The story starts with Bruce Wayne (Character of Batman) losing his parents in Gotham City and growing up to revenge his parents death. But circumstances force him to get into the thick of criminals in Gotham city and he decides to fight criminals in Gotham city. For this he takes the help of Morgan Freeman a sort of scientist and leads 2 lives as batman and the rich playboy.

How he fights the corruption and criminals in Gotham city has been told in a riveting manner.

A Must see and make it a point to see this film before seeing The Dark Knight.

Amelie

Amelie is a poignant french film about a cute little girl who grows up to be a innocent lady.

The story is Amelie one day decides that her life's goal is to help others and make them happy. What she does to achive this is the film. and it depicts it in a very moving manner.

One of the best french films I have seen.

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

http://imdb.com/title/tt0111161/

The Shawshank redemption is one hell of a movie.
The lead actor is not a well known actor but has done a great job.




The story is simple. A Millionaire banker is accused of killing his wife and is sent
to jail for lifeterm. He goes to shawshank,the jail and spends his time
making friends with the other jailmates and bringing about changes in the jail.




He does not rue over his imprisonment and starts a business from inside the jail in name of a benamy
for the jailwarden who has lot of black money. The banker helps him to convert his black money to white by starting a business
and thereby helps him.



Meanwhile it comes to jailers knowledge that banker is indeed innocent and kills another jailmate who the knowledge that the banker is innocent.
thereby ensuring that banker remains in jail to help him.

But in the meantime the banker digs a tunnel from his room for 20 long years and at the end of it, one fine day
finally escapes from the jail to mexico.



He also tells where he is going to his friend, the role played by Morgon freeman so that he can join him in mexico
when he is set free.

The film is indeed a mustwatch.



The tagline of the movie is "Feat can make you Prisoner. Hope can set you free." which the movie greatly displays by what is possible if one has the hope.

Cinema Paradiso - 1988 - Italian

This is a Italian film and is a tribute to the cinema industry itself.

A little boy without a father is bewitched by movies and befriends the cinema operator in his town. He sees all of the movies played in the theater and the cinema operator is godfather to him.

When the kid grows up to be a young man, his godfather asks hime never to return to his town and sends him to city for work. The kid grows up to be a big director and returns to his town for the funeral of his godfather. and reminisces about his childhood days.

A great movie.

Godfather - 1

Godfather 1

This comes as the top in the IMDB Top 250 films.

A nice movie, I am not sure why most people put this as the best film of all times, but it was good.

The story in short is, A gangster has two sons, one who wants to become the DON like his father, and one who wants to become a good citizen unlike his father.

But circumstances force the second son to become the DON and how he becomes is the story.