Berlin Syndrome - Movie

Berlin Syndrome - Movie


There are people who go on tour alone. I have always wondered how that is always possible for them? No fear on the strange places and people and the strange things that can happen to them?

Clare goes on a tour to Germany. What develops into a one night stand with Andi later turns into a nightmare for her. Andi locks her in his unbreakable room and keeps her almost like a prisoner cum sex-slave.

She initially resists and gets even hurt on a couple of occasions trying to escape but later succumbs to his psychic attitude. In his apartment, she finds albums of his previous kills.

Andi is different. Though he enslaves Clare, keeps his limits with his girl student who approaches him. He also keeps his distance from his friend's wife who tries to seduce him.

Strange characters indeed. In my opinion, it doesn't happen to everybody. There is a reason why destiny is said to be pre-determined.

The Lazarus Effect - Movie

The Lazarus Effect - Movie


How would it be if you could bring back dead people alive? A group of scientist develops something in the lab called "serum" with which they bring back a dead woman alive.

But the serum leads to increased brain activity and what she does to her colleagues is the rest of the film.

The film presumes that brain activity is directly proportional to the depth of conscious. The more the brain activity, the deeper the conscious. With the increased brain activity, she could control objects remotely, bend iron rods, cause a power surge, telepath and much more.

Interesting sci-fi element.

One can take this film as the best example for a sci-fi movie taken at a bare minimum cost employing not more than just 4-5 actors, a very small laboratory, and a dog.

I loved it.

This has been categorized under supernatural science fiction.

The Titan - Movie

The Titan - Movie



I sat on this with many expectations but was disappointed. Titan is one of Saturn's moon. It has an atmosphere but that offers only a hostile ecology for life as how it exists on our home planet, Earth. It cannot by any law of physics sustain a human life and therefore was curious how the film is going to prove it otherwise.

The idea is to give humans the required abilities to survive that hostile eco-system. "Forced evolution" is how the idea is called as in the movie.

Arguable!

The movie says that it can be possible to successfully implant the required abilities through scientific methods that can sustain life on a moon like Titan. To me, it is a crazy idea but offers a sci-fi element.

Finally, only one homo-titanian successfully lands on Titan but what is the purpose? He without a female homo-titanian cannot sustain life on Titan. So what is the point is deploying just a single homo-titanian on Titan? How a single homo-titanian can ensure the sustenance of life on the moon? He can he form a colony? How can he inhabit the land mass?

No answers.

I should say, whoever developed this vision didn't think it through.

Automata - Movie

Automata - Movie

This is a 2014 Spanish-Bulgarian movie. Antonio Banderas plays the role of an Insurance officer.

How long would it take for AI to acquire capabilities of self-repair and self-construction? This is the storyline of the movie.

Rumors say that Facebook once had to abandon an in-house artificial intelligence experiment after two of its robots began talking to each other in a language they invented on their own that too, ON THE FLY.

Robots thinking on their own is only a dumb curiously stupid scientist's stupid attempt away. Just like how some deadly viruses were bio-engineered to target humans by some stupid scientist in the Amazon forests. It is just a stupid humanly move away.

This movie is scary. Anthonio's acting is extraordinary. I have seen only a few of his movies and my presumption was not very good on his acting skills. This movie changed my picture of his skills.

Veronica - Movie

Veronica - Movie



Veronica is a 2017 Spanish horror movie.

Google says it is a real incident. If that was true, it's hard to digest a school going girl has undergone such extreme exposure to dark energy.

I don't believe in dark energy might be an understatement. If conscious has a positive side, it can also have a negative side too. Afterall this world is a bunch of binaries.

How many of us can really perceive it is the question. For example, Hypnotism cannot be enforced on anyone. There are minds that possess extreme resistance to such enforcement.

The characters speak Spanish. Thanks to subtitles.

This movie reminds me of the ELISA LAM case in Los Angeles, US. It is still an unsolved case though the official wording goes like this "accidental due to drowning, other significant conditions: bipolar disorder."

This mysterious case must have given rise to at least a dozen movies but only a movie or two has been done based on this case in the whole world. Even the movies don't tell what really happened.

I tried to search for them in Netflix but there were no references. There are several theories on how Elisa Lam could have been murdered but none convinces everyone till date. 

Peter Rabbit - Movie

Peter Rabbit - Movie


I can't believe I watched this movie thrice so far.

It's not like the movie is meant for kids but you should have seen the theatre. It was full of kids and for a moment I was unsure if I got into the wrong Aud. It is a brit movie. So the taste of brits reflecting in the aesthetics and other aspects of the movie is quite obvious.

Rabbits and their friends get acquainted with an abandoned home but when the guy who inherits the property from his grandfather arrives, it becomes a question of who should own the property.

The guy doesn't seem to be appreciative of pets in the home. So he tries, by all means, to get rid of them but his sweet love has her heart on those rabbits. The guy tricks the rabbits into committing crimes and to the disappointment of the rabbits, the lady finds the rabbits guilty.

The guilty rabbits then try to soothe the young lady and towards the end all is well.

But the film is captivating.

Forget about the movie. Let us talk literature here. Wolves, according to history, was the first target of humans.  Violent wolves slowly evolved into habitable dogs. Question is, how a single wolf species could evolve into 4000 different and distinct dog variant? If nature gave rise to so many variants, why it didn't happen to any other species?

Earthworms are exposed to radiations of nuclear explosions. Monkeys and rats are taking active participation in responsible gene editing. Rhinos and Tigers are few of many species that are facing extinction.

I dislike the idea of habituated animals.  I figure animals speak of a higher dimension of love which humans can never understand or perceive. Have you ever seen 2-3 male dogs gang-raping a female dog? That can never happen in animals.

They are much better than us. They don't need us. They really don't. We must let them on their own and try to learn from them. We must unclutch ourselves from all those stupid things that we came up with that forbidden thing that we proudly call "sixth sense".

Tomb Raider (2018)

Tomb Raider(2018)



I like the girl. Alicia Vikander. She has no connection with India even though there is some relativity in her last name. Typical punjaban name but she is totally Swedish!!

I am impressed with the girl's athletic look. She is 29 but on screen looks like someone in 18.

Same old story with this celebrity too. Parted parents, mixed brought up, self-made and so on. Why do all the celebrities share the same shade? Does that mean, people from regular family background don't deserve celebrity status?

The movie is not captivating but Alicia certainly is throughout the film. Half a man by attitude.

I had been in HongKong for a long while. This was for Capgemini Consulting and for the HSBC client. In my opinion, the movie has not shown Hong Kong in it best colors. A lot of Hongkong's signatures are missing in the film.

The only thing that has been fairly transcribed in the movie is the people's dependency on Mandarin.  Otherwise, the film is not really concerned to show the geography in detail. Much of the story goes in the dense forests in the mountains of HongKong.

The tomb and its cryptographic lock held my interest for only a short while. There is not much graphic content too in the film. Action side is totally empty in the film. The purpose of the tomb is not very convincing.

For Action lovers, Tomb Raider would definitely fall short. 

Annihilation - movie (2018)

Annihilation - movie (2018)

How cool it would have been if you write a book and it later becomes a movie? That is what happened with Jeff Vandermeer.

His Southern reach trilogy's first part, Annihilation is a very very unique work. This is the first film that has not portrayed an alien as a weird creature whose saliva has acidic properties that melt iron and concrete floors and hunts human blood and flesh for reproduction and food for its ugly looking kitties.

Believe it or not, I enjoyed the movie thrice so far. Thanks to the concept of MoviePass here in the US.

An extra-terrestrial object enters earth's atmosphere and hits on a light-house. It creates a shimmer. At first, a group of men was sent to investigate the shimmer. None of them return except one who happens to be the protagonist's husband.  He returns with multiple organ failures and eventually succumbs to the coma.

The curious protagonist sets out to the shimmer along with 4 other women on a team effort to continue the investigation on the shimmer. The shimmer kills the rest except the protagonist.

There are no action scenes, violence, blood, bomb blasts, rifles, and explosions. What happens inside the shimmer is a never-told-before science fiction.

While exploring the shimmer, the women-only team finds it hard to undergo what the men-only team underwent in the shimmer. I wonder if feminists would openly admit this part of the movie as it portrays women inferior in physical and mental strength in undergoing the bizarre nature of the shimmer.

I presume the idea was to show the soft nature of women in a weird place like the shimmer. Jeff Vandermeer has his specialization in weird science fiction and perhaps this could be one of the many reasons for such scenes in the movie.

Anyways, the story is out of box and very much Asimov kind. A must-watch kind in modern science fiction movies on Extra-terrestrial.

Pacific Rim - Uprising

Pacific Rim - Uprising


Pacific Rim first part was Kinda OK but second part was intolerable. They call it science fiction but to me this is bad fiction.

They say the huge robots are to protect humankind from the monsters but it is the robots that are most destructive when compared to the monsters in the movie.

The monsters suddenly appear from nowhere and give all kinds of headaches and then the protagonist and his new found team get into a robot each and try to kill the monsters. I am wondering what is the purpose of the movie? Should it have no purpose at all? It must have one at least.

Thanks to movie pass which made is possible to watch such junk movies at no cost. But wait? The training Jaeger program happens in Hong Kong. In Tomb Raider, Lara Croft comes to Hong Kong to reach out to the Island of death. What is it to do with Hong Kong with Hollywood anyway?

If universal pictures have a lot of money to fund, then let it find some good writers and film their fictions. The Martian, Annihilation, Arrival are few very very fine examples.

21 - movie (2008)

21 - movie (2008)

This is a very different movie. A Mathematical Fiction!! Thanks to Netflix.

It has a plot that takes its turn by the concepts of mathematics. Perfect movie by its execution. Kevin Spacey rocked throughout and I didn't expect the climax.

With all that said, the plot of the story failed to impress me much because of the fact that it is based on cards which in turn is based on statistics and variable inclusion.

Only I know how vague it would have been to watch for a mathematician. Given that the storyline is based on poker cards game, the climax could not have been unexpected in any way.

The twists and turns in the story are not entirely relying on the mathematical part in this movie. They are partly by deception, love, betrayal and so on which makes it watchable.  

The story doesn't demand you to know any hi-funda mathematics to enjoy the movie. That's positive. There cannot be much more than this to it.