Film Review 3: Black (2005)

Black

Black is an Indian movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The movie portrays the story of a girl very much like Helen Keller, blind and deaf. But despite her physical disorders, Michelle McNally, lead by her teacher Mr. Sahai and his enthusiasm, succeeds to understand sign languages and read braille. Then she moves onto an even bigger goal, to study in college and graduate. The film showed me what the words ‘Hope’ and ‘Dream’ really means. Towards the end of the movie, Michelle recalls that ‘The only word Mr. Sahai did not teach me was ‘Impossible’.

Film Review 2: The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight

Considers as one of the best films of 2008, The Dark Knight depicts the story of Batman, a ‘somewhat’ hero of Gotham City, struggling to stop the Joker, a new villain of the city, from killing innocent citizens instead of Batman’s own. Throughout the film, Christopher Nolan tries to convey the means of ‘Chaos’ through lines of the Joker played by Heath Ledger and of ‘Fairness’ through the story of Gotham’s District Attorny Harvy Dent played by Aaron Eckhart. Batman himself stands in the middle of his ‘Justice’ and ‘Illegality’ that follows his heroic practices and questions the black-and-white theory that most other Hero movies present, as the Joker asks: ‘So, you think Batman’s made Gotham a better place?’.

Film Review 1: Spirited Away (2002)

Spirited Away

One of the few movies that I really liked was Spirited Awy (2002). The Japanese Animation, directed by Miyazaki Hayao  is about a small girl who accidentally enters the hotel of mystical creatures because of her parents who turn into pigs after going under evil spells. After volunteering to work for the hotel’s manager, ‘Chihiro’ changes her name to ‘Sen’ and ventures in the middle of Japan’s 2 million gods in order to turn her parents back into humans.

Throughout the movie, Hayao focuses to deliver the messege of growth as Sen/Chihiro deals with countless troubles but gradually learns to deal with them and finally succeeds in escaping from the mystic world she steps into. Hayao also tries to convey the importance of one’s identity, as towards the end of the movie Sen remembers her forgotten name and delightly shouts to Haku, ‘Chihiro, my real name was Chihiro!’