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ON Hollywood movie American Beauty(1999) review=Cinematic Beauty

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American beauty is one of my favorite movie,which inspired the interest of movies into me because it was a great cinematic beauty.This movie is a character drama,with beautiful music composition,awesome acting performances,excellent execution by the director.The person who deserves a special mention is the writer Alan Ball who has written an excellent script with the touch of poetry,philosophy. The major story line would be 42 year old Lester Burnham likes to have relationship with his daughter's friend and a gripping climax for it.Even though the story line is odd,highlight of this movie is about the 7 characters.All the 7 characters are empty,lonely,sympathetic,feeling inferior on their life and desperately seeking outlet for their uninspired life. Lester Burnham ------------- 42 year old living in Suburban,Dissatisfied and angry with his average life and there is no fun in his life. outlet : ------ He flirts with daughter's friend,quits job and tries to recover fun in l

ON Secret of implementing self belief

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It is always easy to coin a theory,concept or idea,but it takes a great deal of energy,passion,perseverance to implement it.The major aspect or the trick always lies mainly in the start.As i have been discussing self belief in my previous article,let us see on how to create self belief practically in our mind. I wont take you through some psychological concepts like subconscious mind or that sort of words to explain the implementation technique,rather present it to you in simple words,which you would be able to understand if we think together in this article.Our mind altogether can be divided into memory and thought.The functions of thought would be manipulation,comparison,correlation,etc.In simpler way we can define thought as "Reaction derived from memory".Memory as the name itself says it's meaning,it is just bundle of information,picture,etc.Thought can repeat or pay attention to store information in memory.Thought is the channel of memory. Then comes the question

ON Self Belief

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Based on my observation and self enquiry ,i used to take notes every day on how our mind works and how we can improve.After accumulating the facts for around 90 pages,i was stunned to know the solution for all difficulties in our life would be "self belief".I have heard this words "Self belief" before,just on theory level,but now i realised the value and depth of its meaning.Because self belief lets us to execute action with concentration,gives clarity and enables us to think on a single point without any distraction or confusion .It also improves our listening,observation and never creates conflict with people because it helps us in not feeling inferior.Self belief is energy in thought level ,which prepares us to face life,without running away from the problem. I guess self belief is not a big secret,mostly everybody knows it.Then what's the barrier that's not letting us to apply self belief.It's because we have an image about our self but we haven

ON Jealousy

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Recently i went to a marriage and i was observing people how interested,attached,truthful on their wishes to the couple. I was shocked to see how formal,pretending people are,as well as i saw many actors better then Amitab Bachan , Sivaji Ganesan and Marlon Brando.Not only in wedding,i have observed this kind of attitude in different functions,where people feel uncomfortable in well being or success of others.In simple words,Why are we jealous? Jealousy indicates the intensity of craving,it means you feel somebody is better then you.As per the rule of ego or selfishness,it never lets others be better then you because we feel our sense of existence only by being better then others.Jealousy is just another form of self pity.Essentially comparison is the thing,which leads to jealousy. So why do we compare?We compare to ensure we are better then somebody and secure. Ego seeks it's existence only by being better then others. So here we go ,we found out the reason. But once again

ON Tamil movie Iruvar (1997)=Could have been turning point in Indian film industry

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Indian film director Maniratnam was in great form after making 13 movies,especially after the success of the movie Bombay(1995).He made his ambitious movie " Iruvar " with lot of passion and perfection,which is quite evident in the movie. Maniratnam who is also well known for his innovative one liner,well structured screenplay,cute and good imagination has given his best work especially in the first half of the movie.Recording the history of a nation in a movie is not something possible in Indian film industry due to it's commercial pressure,but Maniratnam has daringly attempted for it with biography of two great persons Anandan and thamizhchelvan (based on real life filmstar , chiefminister M.G.R and writer, Chiefminister Karunanidhi ).It is about their struggles ,dreams,ambition,family,affairs,political and film career.And of course film tells about their friendship,competition and jealousy. The first half of the movie is beautiful,inspiring.But i have to acce

ON The Godfather(1972) Hollywood movie=characters of this movie lives forever in art of film making,

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Finally i decided to give review on the most popular,role model movie in the world,even though mine would be lost in millions of reviews.Writer Mario Puzo has created this story inspired from real life mafia family. The major characters on this movie would be father,his three sons and one foster son.All characters have unique quality,as mentioned below. Santinno Corroleone =Anger,short temper(Elder son has major authority next to his father ) Fredo Corroleone =coward,not smart(second son and Drunkard) Michael Corroleone =cool,smart(returns home after service in military) Tom Hagen=Patience,balanced(foster son,Lawyer and handles single client i.e.,father vito corroleone ) Vito(father)-mixture of these characters,and treats everyone equally with love and care.The content of the story is completely extracted from the novel,so all credits to Mario Puzo in forming the basement of this movie. Francis Ford Copolla not much known director at that point of making this movie has done

ON Kamal Haasan's Anbe Sivam(2003) Tamil movie ~ The theme of humanity on Movie/art at its best

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This is one of the movies i missed during it's release like many,due to the feeling that this movie won't be interesting and entertainment factor will be less(lot of downside info like reportedly 6+ crores loss for producers at 2003 and also director didn't take salary and infact the latter director capped Sundar.C hinted that Kamal made this movie as an influence and to satisfy his intellectual associate. Indeed was in development hell briefly with Priyadarshan been replaced and also the heroine i guess) .Finally i saw this movie and was shocked to know that an Indian feature film has good quality without any artificial entertainment.To my knowledge the theme of humanity i first saw was on the 1940 feature film "The great dictator",Schlinder's List and many great movies.But this movie was striking direct on it's theme with it's relevant plot. Actor Kamalhaasan is one of the few unique distinguished film personality in India who has been making car

ON Hollywood movie 21 grams(2003)

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I am not a great admirer of non linear edited movie,because i have watched some movies like The Killing (1956),Pulp fiction (1994),Memento(2000)and some which didn't appeal to me so much.But 21grams movie team did the trick and made us enjoy the non linear story telling.Especially it was a treat when i watched it second time and fun to correlate the scenes in my mind.The writer and director of this movie are from Mexican film industry,who made this hollywood movie after well received,appreciated Mexican movie "Amorres Perros". I always believed Writing a movie has 60% importance and 40% importance to director because he takes care of camera position and correcting,extracting,coordinating of writing,acting,costumes,set design,musiccomposition,cinematography,casting,Makeup.Primarily the content of story is what we are going to say or communicate to audience,that is what they will go out when they leave movie theatre.So,the writer of a movie always deserves special menti