127 HOURS

Genre: Adventure Biography Drama

Direction: Danny Boyle

Lead: James Franco

A very profound movie with a beautiful ending.

This movie is a biography of Aaron Ralston, the famous rock climber and mountaineer. But it depicts all our lives. It's a wonderful metaphor for solitude and for the importance of what life means at an individual level. It is embedded with all values of life -friends, family, love, and the importance of human contact in life. And you never understand their significance until something disastrous happens to you. It is only then that you realize how much you've lost during all this time.

Danny Boyle has done a superb job in depicting the cathartic life-or-death experience. And James Franco also has done an outstanding performance. A huge leap from Spiderman's Harry Osborn to this level of brilliant acting. This movie will really make you "feel" life.

The movie is short. Watch it alone in one shot.

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RABBIT HOLE

Genre: Drama

Direction: John Cameron Mitchell

Leads: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart

Nicole Kidman has performed splendidly. There are no words to express how deep into the character she has acted. The movie, on the other hand, was only okay. It was above average due to good direction. But it's not much different from the typical drama movies out there. It's good but not fresh. It's worth a watch bu only for drama fans. It's realistic and wonderful, and completely filled with emotions. It's based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire, in which a happy couple faces a lot of struggles when their son passes away in an accident. It's got good direction, excellent acting and very beautiful hard-hitting dramatic scenes.

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I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

Genre: Horror Thriller

Direction: Steven R. Monroe

Lead: Sarah Butler

A typical psychopath story.

A lonely female writer takes a retreat from the city and moves out in the woods to write her next book, and falls victim to a bunch of local lunatics. And there is nothing new in the new the story starts, the way she encounters the people for the first time (lost and asking for directions), the way they come back to her cabin late at night (she hears noises from outside, gets up and goes out to check; leaves the door open and takes a few extra steps outside; comes back, closes the door and turns only to find that they are inside).

After being physically abused, tortured and brutalized by the group, just before they kill her, she sacrifices her broken and beaten body  to a raging river that washes her away. After a while when the group finally gives up searching for her, she returns with a vengeance. And then it's just too God-damn gore that makes you vomit!

It's just an ordinary movie, with only okay direction. I wouldn't recommend it. I just don't get why they made a remake of such movie when the original itself wasn't that good.

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