I've recently taken to watching movies on Netflix or Youtube. There are some gems to be found there which one has never heard or read of before. Wanted to mention a couple such movies that I've had the opportunity to watch lately.
The love letter
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This is a toe-curling, goosebumpy romantic story spanning 2 different eras 163 years apart! No, its not sci fi or time travel. The hero, who is engaged, buys an antique writing desk on impulse while his fiancee is window shopping at a store. Inside the writing desk, he finds a secret compartment that has a letter. The letter is basically a love letter to an imaginary lover from a young lady almost a century ago. At 29, she is being pressured to accept the suit of a suitable gentleman by her father but she burns for the aching kind of love. On another impulse, our hero types a response to her letter on his computer and even tells about it to his mother. The mother being a hopeless romantic herself, gifts him some old style stationary, an inkpot and a pen to draft a real response. She even tells him of a quaint post office where he can post the letter! The hero actually does that and lo & behold he hears a pop from his desk. On examining the secret compartment he finds a response from the same lady to his letter! This back and forth of letters continues across time and space and they fall in love with each other. The direction is really good and the background score adds to the magic. As long as one is content with forgetting logic and science, this one promises to be a tear-jerking, heart-wrenching romantic journey.
Barefoot
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This one is a gem of a movie. The protagonist owes huge gambling debts, and is working as a janitor at a mental hospital while on parole. His parents are loaded, but he has fallen out with his father so refuses to ask for his help. He is invited to his brother's wedding by his mom and happens to blurt to his dad that he has a girlfriend who is a nurse at the same hospital that he manages the administration of. Dad extends the invitation to the girlfriend so he has to hunt for one at short notice. He zeros in on a patient at the hospital who has a tendency to go barefoot - she has never used shoes in her life! What follows is a delightful adventure that the two embark on that eventually ends in their falling in love with each other. Anything more would be a spoiler so I'll leave it at that. A must watch.
The love letter
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This is a toe-curling, goosebumpy romantic story spanning 2 different eras 163 years apart! No, its not sci fi or time travel. The hero, who is engaged, buys an antique writing desk on impulse while his fiancee is window shopping at a store. Inside the writing desk, he finds a secret compartment that has a letter. The letter is basically a love letter to an imaginary lover from a young lady almost a century ago. At 29, she is being pressured to accept the suit of a suitable gentleman by her father but she burns for the aching kind of love. On another impulse, our hero types a response to her letter on his computer and even tells about it to his mother. The mother being a hopeless romantic herself, gifts him some old style stationary, an inkpot and a pen to draft a real response. She even tells him of a quaint post office where he can post the letter! The hero actually does that and lo & behold he hears a pop from his desk. On examining the secret compartment he finds a response from the same lady to his letter! This back and forth of letters continues across time and space and they fall in love with each other. The direction is really good and the background score adds to the magic. As long as one is content with forgetting logic and science, this one promises to be a tear-jerking, heart-wrenching romantic journey.
Barefoot
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This one is a gem of a movie. The protagonist owes huge gambling debts, and is working as a janitor at a mental hospital while on parole. His parents are loaded, but he has fallen out with his father so refuses to ask for his help. He is invited to his brother's wedding by his mom and happens to blurt to his dad that he has a girlfriend who is a nurse at the same hospital that he manages the administration of. Dad extends the invitation to the girlfriend so he has to hunt for one at short notice. He zeros in on a patient at the hospital who has a tendency to go barefoot - she has never used shoes in her life! What follows is a delightful adventure that the two embark on that eventually ends in their falling in love with each other. Anything more would be a spoiler so I'll leave it at that. A must watch.
2 comments:
Champion at movie narration.....u have to complete the love story in our next tele-conversation.
Nice! Your reviews make one want to see the movie immediately...
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