esanthosh
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
I do not have a particular liking for romantic films. But this one is different. It's a film in which Jim Carrey plays a role Kate Winslet would usually play and vice versa. Even the voice of Jim Carrey is different from his "shout in high pitch" antics he usually does.
Tom Wilkinson plays Dr. Howard, who has discovered a way to erase unpleasant memories from a person. When Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) learns that Clementine (Kate Winslet) has erased him from her memory, he wants to do the same. But during the process, he learns how much he really loves her and tries to "hide" her from the erasing process.
Cube (1997)
Years before the "Saw" series made it famous, this limited budget Canadian film did it. I am talking about a group of persons waking up in unfamiliar place and trying to figure their way out. Cube is a bit more intelligent and everybody has a skill set that helps the group to survive. Of course, some of the plot elements are guessable since they have been in, I don't know, say a million other films. Even with that, Cube is far better than many other gory, shock value films since it is not that much about gore here.
The Others (2001)
This is a nice film for the fans of the horror genre. There is no attempt to "scare" you with make-up and weird camera angles. Instead, the interest is kept on by what characters reveal during their interactions.
Nicole Kidman plays the protective mother of two. The children have a photosensitive ailment that affects them when exposed to sunlight and hence the 'rules' are to keep the curtains closed and lock doors to cut-off the light. Her husband had gone for WWII and has not been heard since. A group of three arrive whom she mistakes as people turning up for interview as per her advertisement for servants. She later learns that they all used to work here and they have come on their own. Strange things begin to happen in the house like the sound of someone running and the daughter constantly talking about a boy named Victor and a family who says that they own the house now, none of whom anybody else sees. Grace, the strict Catholic mother, punishes her daughter Anne by asking her to read the bible for three days threatening her that she will go to children's hell for lying. But when she hears the same noises, she gets determined to find the intruders. Of course, she finds none. When she goes out desperately to bring the priest to purify the place, she finds none other than her husband in the fog.
Rest - I leave to those who choose to see it. Of course, there's a twist at the very end
I do not have a particular liking for romantic films. But this one is different. It's a film in which Jim Carrey plays a role Kate Winslet would usually play and vice versa. Even the voice of Jim Carrey is different from his "shout in high pitch" antics he usually does.
Tom Wilkinson plays Dr. Howard, who has discovered a way to erase unpleasant memories from a person. When Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) learns that Clementine (Kate Winslet) has erased him from her memory, he wants to do the same. But during the process, he learns how much he really loves her and tries to "hide" her from the erasing process.
Cube (1997)
Years before the "Saw" series made it famous, this limited budget Canadian film did it. I am talking about a group of persons waking up in unfamiliar place and trying to figure their way out. Cube is a bit more intelligent and everybody has a skill set that helps the group to survive. Of course, some of the plot elements are guessable since they have been in, I don't know, say a million other films. Even with that, Cube is far better than many other gory, shock value films since it is not that much about gore here.
The Others (2001)
This is a nice film for the fans of the horror genre. There is no attempt to "scare" you with make-up and weird camera angles. Instead, the interest is kept on by what characters reveal during their interactions.
Nicole Kidman plays the protective mother of two. The children have a photosensitive ailment that affects them when exposed to sunlight and hence the 'rules' are to keep the curtains closed and lock doors to cut-off the light. Her husband had gone for WWII and has not been heard since. A group of three arrive whom she mistakes as people turning up for interview as per her advertisement for servants. She later learns that they all used to work here and they have come on their own. Strange things begin to happen in the house like the sound of someone running and the daughter constantly talking about a boy named Victor and a family who says that they own the house now, none of whom anybody else sees. Grace, the strict Catholic mother, punishes her daughter Anne by asking her to read the bible for three days threatening her that she will go to children's hell for lying. But when she hears the same noises, she gets determined to find the intruders. Of course, she finds none. When she goes out desperately to bring the priest to purify the place, she finds none other than her husband in the fog.
Rest - I leave to those who choose to see it. Of course, there's a twist at the very end
