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Platypus Side Hero Username: Platypus Post Number: 5471 Registered: 01-2008 Posted From: 82.19.11.233 Rating: N/A |
Do a deer, a female deer Re a drop of golden sun Me a name I call myself Fa a long long way to run So a needle pulling thread La.. La.. Land! Where do I begin? After eons, we finally get to watch a perfect potboiler; a cracker of a love story; simply out of the world music; brilliant casting and finally a chance to listen to A-ha's Take On Me on screen. What more can we ask for? As it turns out, we sure can ask for more. For instance, we can ask for the leading pair to the set the screen ablaze and they do better. Apart from setting our screen ablaze, they end up burning the reel of the movie they are watching. When their hands caress each other; the fingers play hide and seek and finally end up entwined, it is probably Fahrenheit 451. I can't say for sure for I was running for the door - I had to find a passage back to the place I was before. "Relax" said the girl with the cutest eyes I have ever seen on screen, perhaps off screen too, "You can check out anytime you want. But you can never leave!" So true, it's been an hour and thirty miles from where the show ended and I still look to my left and find the pair dancing as if there is no tomorrow amidst applause by the mighty skyline of Los Angeles. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone set the screen on fire. Their chemistry is so fundamental and native that you are convinced they are made and mad for each other. Fortunately, the director ensures they stop at quick kisses, for who knows how many fire tenders would have to be called had they gone a little beyond kissing! It is what we call here a mass masala. It has all the ingredients in the right proportions served exactly at the right moment - not a second earlier and not a second later. It has drama, humour, emotion, heartbreak, you name it - it has it. And there's a method in this madness, a beautiful form that keeps all these elements in check allowing none to engulf the others. A perfect musical in the more than able hands of the two insanely talented young actors Gosling and Stone. There are a number of Birdmanish sequences in the movie where you wonder if the director got carried away in the sparkling romance brewing in front of him and forgot to say "cut" and the actors happily continued enjoying each other's presence. Pulling off such lengthy sequences is not a mean feat, mind you - especially when there is no CGI to bail you out. The last fifteen minutes of the movie take it the next level completely. Not that the movie needed to be taken there. It was perfectly fine at the level it was playing. Still the climax, so brilliantly conceptualized and flawlessly executed - make it sort of a classic of classics. It is pure poetry. It has to be seen to be believed. No one can review this piece. It is God. You just sit there and submit yourself to it. If you haven't watched it yet, you are probably incredibly fortunate. For, beware - Once you see it, there's no going back. You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave! My rating: 5 out of 5 |