No. Like Kragozhia, it should be Salaamia in Tamil. Remember ‘Vikram’? )

Anyway, I found ‘Terminal’ a bit too cinematic at many places. A different attempt though, and deserves appreciation.

Thats a nice neat piece of a review you made on terminal. you were right in saying about the last few minutes of the movie. But then you need to end a movie. right. it’s a pressure on the director to end the movie in way audience would like it. so did spielberg.

And yeah, CMIYC should be well listened to be apperciated. especially that press scene that you mentioned. probably thats why spielberg gave lots of importance to the dialogues which isn’t a usual fare in his movies.

But on Schindler’s list, because it was a kind of inspired indirectly from the nazis, he had to make it that way. But if you imagine, Schindler must have potrayed like that devlish to be seen as the ‘nice man’ in the end. it was probably inevitable. i loved it, however.

Long time.

Anyway, was waiting to come back with something interesting. Saw Terminal yesterday (Sree, 4pm).

Imagine this scenario. You are watching this guy performing on stage. He is a juggler. He walks in a grand manner on to the stage, and the first few minutes he zaps you with his skill… by the time he reaches the end of his act, you are completely in love with him, and are just waiting for him to take the bow, so that you can give him a resounding, standing ovation… and then he drops one ball… then another… and then one more… you are stunned… and then another… you are shocked… the whole audience is silent, uncomprehending… and then he falls down… picks up the balls, and makes an exit… head down… Even after he has left, it takes a while for you to take stock of what has happened… and then you clap… seated. Then you sigh.

The first one hour 20 minutes of The Terminal was superb – excellent direction, screenplay – very good “interweaving” of characters to bring out ‘smile-inducing’ pleasant scenes all throughout. Enjoyed every minute of it. But…

To spoil it all… came the last 40 minutes or so. And this is the most cruciual part of a movie. Deja Vu! How many movies, that not only began well, but also had an extremely good “middle” – and then… you can only sigh… and clap… seated.

And I was stunned. Wow! what an angle to the story! The wrong-doer, crumbling under his own wrong! That he is chased by the poloce and caught by them becomes immaterial in that moment of realisation … much before all that, something far more powerful – and merciless – is chasing him all his life, and now has caught up with him… wow! Like Hanks says,”You think this is between you and me?”… that line takes a whole different meaning, could have lifted itself – and the movie – to a whole different plane.

But… that scene, lasts about 5 minutes on screen… Most of the movie wasted on Leo’s exploits… unfortunate – for the movie.

Even “Schindler’s List”. To put it plainly… 75% of the movie we show he is bad… 5% we show Transformation… 10% we show he is Good… and the last 10%, when everybody around him suddenly starts crying when he is about to leave them, we are – somehow – expected to sob, too… oh, sob I did! To see a movie that “could have been…!”

I would really like to hear your views on this.

PS: I almost forgot: For those of you wondering, Yes, you should watch Terminal, for its first one and a half hours, and especially the acting of this great guy called Tomm Hanks! And for the excellent cinematography!

got directed to this site, while i was chking out mayaavi on ravi’s.
and am now tempted to comment, cos I’m fresh from seeing The Terminal. Wanted to see The Village, but it only shows matinee, so settled for Terminal, last nite. Wanted to write a review today, but havent managed to find the time yet.
If you consider that the film had the constraint of unity of place (from aristotle’s theory of unities), it has managed to do quite well. Keeps you entertained largely.
My crib though, is that that navorski’s reason for staying behind is rather slender. I mean,touching and all, but realistic? Even giving Speilberg all the artistic license he wants, a cynic like me is tempted to smirk. Especially when Catherine Zeta Jones lets her eyes fill after navorski’s opened his can of peanuts for her! Gimme a break, i’d say!
but, give it to hanks. yet another award winning performance.
However, if i write more, i think i’ll steal the thunder from my own review. Wll stop, leaving you with an idea to ponder over.
when you think desi, hanks-look alike aamir khan must get his due. he’d be a good navorski.

Already Speilberg had portraied Indians as Monkey Brain Eaters in his Indiana Jones – Temple of Doom.

Your Review hindered me to watch this movie. Have to check in Brussels theatres now.

soleerukaama irundhurukalaamo?

ellam sari…athu enna kusumbu in the last line..

Enna enga thalai kku sonthama padam edukka theriyatha? ella nadikka theriyatha….

He is next to perunthalai man(Sivaji). Don’t insult him by such comments…Ok…Ok…Ok…

-Shiva

Divvya, Speilberg seems to be amused by real life stories. After an array of movies with tech gizmos, probably he starting to look on the humane side of life.

And yeah the titles were classy. Good that you noticed the titles of Catch me if you can. They really rocked. With that 70′s mus’ic and the disco style titles, CMIYC had a great start.

Anti, I agree the reasoning of Indian guy was too shallow. However didn’t you think Spielberg rigged at indians for being sadistic.