Imagine a world with a trillion Rembrandts

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Rating 4.75/5.0
where 5.0 is my favorite Wes Anderson film

I could have been a great filmmaker. You would say - Yeah! We could all have been great filmmakers. And my response to that is - SHUT UP, WILL YA, THIS IS MY FUCKING REVIEW!

I scoff at films made today -- I think they are crap and I believe I could do better if I had the chance. I know the truth but I like to live in a make believe world -- that keeps me sane. Till now I have been quite successful at living with the delusion that I'm a filmmaker in exile...and to make it more authentic I have made it a point not to use my video camera even once in the last 3 years. 

There are very few filmmakers who can humble this vain Antonioni in me. Wes Anderson is one of them. When it comes to his films, I find it very hard to say - "Hey, I could have done that with a 1 year diploma from a good film school" I want to suffer from a remotely possible delusion and thinking that I can make a film like Wes is not even remotely possible. Why? Because Wes Anderson films are not films, they are a trillion paintings flipping, floating, flying about with beautiful music playing in the background. Every scene is a perfect balance of color, emotion and movement -- it's fragile, it's ethereal and it's impossible to predict -- every moment in the film stands proudly as a testament of what movies can do if you could think, hear and imagine like Wes Anderson. 

Watch Moonrise Kingdom. After you're done, spend a couple of hours staring at the ceiling thinking about the film -- it might lead you to a world that's better than the one we live in. 


Imdb link here

Preface: A Brief History of Cinema

Features in my top  10 of all time - a list which is a TRILLION GAZILLION times more relevant than IMDB top 100!

2011 was a wonderful cycle: start with discontent - move to exploration - then to discovery - and move back to discontent - exploration and on and on and on it went..that's what life should ideally be about! Explore, discover, create something - something that only YOU can create, make people around you a little bit happier than they were before they met you and then leave whatever you have built and build something new again.

Blogging is all about sharing - and for all the people who actually take the time out to read this and even for those who came across this blog because they searched for something arbitrary and then desperately fumbled to hit the close button - here's my 2012 resolution for the blog...I'm now going to get into a serious knowledge sharing mode....and that would mean a brief history of 'my take on' cinema...starting with the next entry...so WATCH OUT!

Here's hoping for more discontent, exploration, discovery and creation in 2012.
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ah..found the X button! My eyes are giving way...got to get them checked.