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Saturday, 18 August 2018

Highway (2014)

Highway (2014)


Contract criminals while on a routine burglary attempt abduct Veera - daughter of a rich businessman - as a bait for their escape. She initially tries to escape but comes back to them as she gets lost in a place where there is nowhere to go. The men lead by one by name Mahabir, take her along with them and she eventually finds her comfort zone in their company.

It was something that she never possessed but longed to possess. The men don't take advantage of her helplessness. On one dinner she recalls the way she was abused and molested by a family relative when she was 9 yrs old. Her mother on hearing from her own daughter about the molestation doesn't do much about it which pushes Veera to live with the molestations.

With those men running for their oxygen in a tempo, she feels the freedom that she always craved for. At some point, she admits that she neither wants to go to where they were going to nor returning back to her home.

At one point, she could not bear the pleasure of the unexpected chance of embracing what she always wanted to embrace. Mahabir, on the other hand, could not bear the agony of having gotten what he always longed for at the time when the policemen were in the lookout for his head. The world ends for Mahabir with one bullet piercing Mahabir's chest on the day next to the day he manages to get her a home at the top of a mountain.

Veera is sedated and taken back to her home. With continuous sedation by the time she gains conscious, Mahabir was long gone from the world. In the end, Veera peels off the real face of that relative who molested her and that of her mother who did nothing about it. She then leaves her home and no one follows her.

I find this film carrying dense emotions. This film criticises the nuances in the process of a rich getting richer. I think that's the best part of the movie. ARR music is so soothing. Not very great numbers which make you to listen to them often like the ones in Rangeela or Taal. But the background score in the film was too sensible. I loved this film personally.

Sunday, 12 August 2018

Mission Impossible - Fallout

This film too has the same story-format as its predecessors. Tom Cruise - the most skilled IMF agent - therefore the best man to be the saver of the world.

The film is extravagant. No doubt about it. But while watching it kindled in me, philosophical thoughts instead of adrenaline-pumping action.

I thoroughly know, how challenging and difficult it is, to keep oneself energetic and continue to look young even at the age of 57. A perfect composure of discipline, hard work and continuous training can only return such wonderful amazing result. I would say, it is something very rare to find. Good things can only come with hard work.

One has to be surrounded by the right set of people. Tom Cruise has been fortunate to live amidst such right people.

That's the only way to get recognized quickly. But on the other hand, there are many that are hard-working but are not gifted with the right set of people. They are stuck with wrong people and are taken away much far from the level or position they truly deserve. What do their hard work, discipline, and training truly deserve? Peanuts?

That's pathetic.

Life becomes challenging because of such meaninglessness.