Down The Rabbit Hole

Cooper's haunted looks sear through. He looks so alone. Out cold inside a black hole, he yearns, and remembers. It is his daughter--back on Earth that he had left with a promise. A promise he now knows he can't keep. He has failed. *** This is a film not just about parenthood. It is anthropological in its canvas. Humankind is struggling to survive, and we see all of our species' defining features here. It is about humanity's best and worst. 'Mann' lies to ensure his survival. Cooper braves a black hole to send Brand on her way, wryly quoting the Newton's third law, “The only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.” Brand still loves someone who she hasn't seen in decades, and is pulled light years towards him. We may be three dimensional beings, but 'love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.' For a moment, I am reminded...

It makes you laugh, it fills you with warmth and lifts you. Forrest's life is not an ordinary one. Lt. Dan maintains that there is a destiny for everyone to follow, while Forrest's mother tells him that 'life is a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get.' Forrest ruminates at the end that these two seemingly opposing views may not be irreconcilable after all. His life is proof enough that accidents happen; all you got to do is to follow them to completion, and they would become your destiny. Forrest got a few chances in his life, he followed what his loved ones told him to do, and got through. The feather may represent that randomness that can lead you to your destiny, because it looks as if it is floating idly in the wind, but the wind is not without design. Lt. Dan laughs when Forrest tells him that he would become a shrimp boat captain, but that same business would then make him rich beyond his dreams. This is wonderful cinema. The ...

Amazingly crafted, very convincing indeed Spielberg has dramatized the most difficult months of Lincoln's presidency in intimate and sympathetic detail. I remember the way Lincoln would connect with his audience, share an anecdote and immediately lighten up the atmosphere. He seemed like an immensely likable man. When the moment demanded, he could also be tough and exercise the power his charisma granted him over others. The film focuses on the visionary that he was, the realist he had to become to achieve his vision and the certainty he had in his beliefs. The one thing that separated him from his peers was the ability to seek out the important from the inane. It is shown that he was aware of the historical moment that was upon them in the form of the Thirteenth Amendment, and he 'cepit diem'. Daniel Day Lewis has given us a remarkable performance. It is very hard to make out that the Lincoln we see brooding and connecting is actually an actor; someone for ...

Informative and slightly political documentary. This film details Stuxnet as a phenomenon. It does a good job in deliberating about its ramifications and the situations that fomented it. Although the claims it makes cannot truly be verified, it does give you the general idea about the alleged attack. I would say there was a political angle to the telling of the tale, but the movie drives home the point that Stuxnet was the primer to the era of cyber warfare of this century. We get to see the dramatization of the 'predicament' of the Bush administration, the sepia tinted Ahmadinejad speeches (which should have been subtitled in English, but were not), and the fictional NSA agent who tells us the role Israel and the US supposedly played in the story. In the end it tries to give out a moral message that all war is bad, more weapons just mean more calamities waiting in the wings, and secrecy around a weapon is the first step to let it run amok. Overall, it was an inf...