Hi Guys,
There are two
types of movies in this world – one that entertains you and the other that
teaches you life.
The first one
makes a huge collection at the box office and the second one draws the
attention of critics. I watch the first category of movies, but I am a big fan
of the second type. I have posted many of those movies in Movies that touched
my Heart post. Now I will post a few more.
Rain Man (1988)
Directed by
Barry Levinston, this movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise
plays the role of Charlie Babbit. He runs a car workshop at Los Angeles and he
learns that his father dies at Cincinnati. He ran away very young as he once
stole his father’s classic Buick car and gets caught at police. His father
leaves Charlie only his Buick car.
Charlie finds
that the remaining $3 million is left to his brother Sanford Babbit (Dustin
Hoffman) who is at a mental institution as he is autistic. Charlie is shocked
as he never knew he had a brother. He kidnaps his brother and plans to get
equal share of the money. Sanford is afraid of planes and hence Charlie drives
along with Sanford from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. All the travelling forms the
rest of the movie.
The initial hate
goes and Charlie begins to love his brother. Sanford is so good at counting.
Charlie uses him to earn $80K at Las Vegas. Sanford says he is an excellent driver
throughout the movie. He sticks to the time so much that he wants to watch TV
at specific time and wants to sleep at 11’o clock and so on. He refuses to wear
clothes bought at rest of places. He is afraid after he sees accident in
highway and so on.
Dustin’s acting
is so good. He portrays the role of an Autistic Patient so good and deservingly
he got Oscar award. This movie bagged 4 Oscars.
Mystic River (2003)
Directed by the
great Clint Eastwood, this movie portrays the life of 3 people, who were
childhood friends until a tragedy took place.
One friend Dave
(Tim Robbins) was kidnapped when they were trying to inscribe their names in a
cement block. He is still haunted by his abduction. Another friend Jim (Sean
Penn) is an ex-con who runs a store and has strong influences. The other Sean
(Kevin Bacon) works in the Police department. The plot unfolds when Jim’s
daughter is found dead. It interlocks the lives of three people.
The story is
about who killed his daughter and the emotional pains going through each other’s
mind and the memories of their friendship. It was such a lovely movie.
Particularly the epilogue in which the little boy is affected because of his
father’s death and the question Sean asks Jim, ‘What if all of us went in the car that day?’ were just wonderful.
The acting of
Sean Penn and Tim Robbins were so good that they got Oscar for leading role and
supporting role respectively.
(To be continued…)
Happy Reading!!!
The first Movie Rain Man was lying for about an year in my Laptop but didn't know it was such a nice film, hvn't heard of second one though.
ReplyDeleteYour Blog looks very simple and nice now :-)
Hey good list.. i like both these movies.. Dustin hoffman's dance.. is memorable..
ReplyDeleteand Sean Penn is nice.. but i loved Tim Robbins acting as the abused.. he rocks in Shawshank Redemption too..!
@Abhishek
ReplyDeletethe movie is quite boring.... but very memorable...
good to see u after long time....
@KP
ReplyDeletethanks for the comments... he is good in shawshank redemption too... another fantastic movie...
i love million dollar baby, kill bill, rocky, the dark knight :) and yeah i loooovvveeee real life inspired movies....
ReplyDelete@Chintan
ReplyDeletethanks for the comments...
Have not seen those movies but yeah I love those kind of movies...
ReplyDeleteOne of the recent ones which comes to mind is Taare Zameen Par... Just loved it!!
Have a nice Sunday Karthick:-)
@Arti
ReplyDeletethanks for the comments... yeah, taare zameen par is one of those kinds...