Oct 18, 2005 04:20 PM
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(Updated Oct 18, 2005 04:27 PM)
One of my friends wrote in our egroups that one who who doesn't write reviews for a living do so only on two occasions. The movie have to so good that he/she wants to spread the good news so everyone may enjoy or the movie had to be so god awful that he/she feels a need to protect the masses from the assault on their senses by the travesty pretending to be a movie, in her words. So well put, Tarangini!!( she shredded a movie ‘The Wedding Date’ in front of maybe a thousand alumni, may god bless the movie)
I am writing this review, or maybe its not a review, Not for the awful reason. Its for the former.Well I don't have word to say how nice the movie was.
To cut a long story short, well I was sitting up on my seat for half time or more. I just couldn't sit properly and my left hand was ever ready to throw that Hook. And my jaw was hurting when I saw Russel Gladiator Crowe getting the blows too. Like The wife said, ''every time they hit you I feel the blow and I am not as strong that I could take those blows''. It thoroughly put my mind into a such a disarray, I went and bought the VCDs of Rocky . Mien gott, I had enjoyed Rocky so much as a kid, but after watching Cinderella Men, Rocky looked more like a play Boxing. Cinderella Men was a genre of its kind. My friend who went with me( he might be reading this now) kept saying that Boxing must be banned. He felt that bad, not the movie but what the movie was doing to him. The boxing scenes were superb, and I kick myself for not having seen the movie earlier. The title wasn't too macho, and cinderella men. I thought I would be a queer movie. How wrong I was?I realise what America had to go through to become what they are today. It depicted the great Depression so bl$#dy well.
The growth of the America, I believe, is more to do with the collective dread of such a depression repeating again. I believed America worked so hard, and made all the measures so as not to repeat such a thing again and in doing so made the great America of Today. Seeing the movie, when the protagonist's kids had to go hungry, I was suddenly glad I am not married. I mean at such a condition, it would be oh so difficult. I suddenly want to save money. And I suddenly realise the wisdom of my parents buying Agricultural land and keeping a whole year's stock of Rice. We will never go hungry. The movie was such a rude shock. I will surely start keeping some money out of the Stocks. Yeah, At least in india the danger of the cold won't be there. the depression was followed by the cold winter where they needed electricity to heat the room and when they couldn't pay for the electricity and power cut off leaving three kids in the cold. It just was heart wrenching. My friend said,''at least we don't have the cold in india''. All the while we were watching the movie, we were actually living in it.
We lived the Sorrows as much as the Joy when Russel Crowe become the world champ. I was virtually boxing and was on my best alert. It just was too good. And my my, Renée Zellweger delivered too well. I sure would love my wife to be like her. I don't want to do an injustice to those who haven't watched it by telling the story but the story just was superb.The pain that parents went through, the hunger. And when Renee said, ''every time you take a punch, I feel like I am taking the punch and I am not half as tough as you are''She also delivered her punches well. There just were too many memorable scenes. Go and see for yourself..Liked it better than Million dollar baby.Russel Crowe Rocks. A must watch for everyone.. You will feel like you are right inside the movie.
Another Product I couldn't find a fault. All my film reviews will be like this I guess.
