End of another year and its introspection time for everyone..Personally i never believed in doing so .You do things right and then you screw up a lot ...dats wut u r ought to do right..
2008 was an year of good byes to me, a whole lot of people leaving and dat makes me always sad..Altogether it was a crappy year. if u ask me wut I wish for in the new year,I say I would like people to not believe in their stars but in their own spirit to make life bright ! Have a not-so-crappy year ahead n may PEACE be with ya all :)
All the world seems at ease tonight
And all that I ask when these precious moments pass
Is why can't every day be so bright
I wish every day could be like NewYear's eve!!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Juno
Past weekend was a lousy one..despite the beautiful Bangalore weather and the festive moods, I have turned into a couch potato..but Hey! I m not complaining..seeing movies after movies , exploring the emo music scene ( getting somber eventually) , some heavy duty downloading and devouring plum Xmas cakes..What a nice way to wind up a rather grim year :) :)
JUNO..that's the movie I loved the most out of the few I saw last weekend..Well, finally I saw Lawrence of Arabia too...but this blog is for JUNO and the songs of the movie..
Its a comedy drama , won the Academy award for the best original screenplay in 2007 . Its like no American comedy ever made, atleast not the ones I saw hitherto.. considering the plethora of crap I force mself to see ( :P), hence giving it a fresh youthful feel probably because of the teen protagonist and the plot .. The thread of the movie is about a teenager, Juno,name as in the Greek goddess , who has to confront an unplanned pregnancy thereby forced to deal with things beyond her maturity level as the character itself claims in one of the scenes. Shes every bit the global teenager..cool, intelligent , witty with an interest in punk rock and horror movies.She gets pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker and decides to go ahead with delivering the baby and putting the baby for adoption after contemplating abortion.What follows is a chain of events where she is to handle the pressure of pregnancy , the complications of adoption , her feelings for Bleeker etc.In the final part of the movie, she admits to Bleeker that she is in love with him and before the final credit rolls they are shown jamming in front of Bleeker's house followed by a kiss..
The dialogues of the movie are hilariously funny , without being funny on your face , but more like Oh! I was caught unaware on camera when I said this kinda style. As an Indian audience I was also surprised by the ease by which they managed such a sensitive topic which would have raised quite a few eyebrows in here, there where no yelling/screaming/judgment of any sort in the whole movie even in the scene where the girl explains the situation to her parents.This might have been a conscious take by the makers where they did not want it to be a preaching kinda movie but about how a cool intelligent girl handles the situation.Any Indian director would have thrown in quite a few scenes of melodrama making people cringe in their seats.But yeah..the oh so cultural differences .... Who am I to complain!!
The music of Juno is a cherry on top of a delightful cheese cake, cheese cake being the movie ofcourse..( Dun know what it is with me giving unwanted emphasis on the cake here...maybe bcus of the whole Xmas season :D ). The album features several songs performed by Kimya Dawson and her bands Antsy Pants and The Moldy Peaches . Out of all the cute songs my favorite is All I want is U by Barry Louis Polisar . This is the official track of the movie and it is played during the opening credits of the movie while an animated Juno walk thru the streets ..
You can get the lyrics of All I want is U here... and the song can be downloaded frm here ...
I recommend the movie to all drama lovers ;) ...Happy Xmas !
JUNO..that's the movie I loved the most out of the few I saw last weekend..Well, finally I saw Lawrence of Arabia too...but this blog is for JUNO and the songs of the movie..
Its a comedy drama , won the Academy award for the best original screenplay in 2007 . Its like no American comedy ever made, atleast not the ones I saw hitherto.. considering the plethora of crap I force mself to see ( :P), hence giving it a fresh youthful feel probably because of the teen protagonist and the plot .. The thread of the movie is about a teenager, Juno,name as in the Greek goddess , who has to confront an unplanned pregnancy thereby forced to deal with things beyond her maturity level as the character itself claims in one of the scenes. Shes every bit the global teenager..cool, intelligent , witty with an interest in punk rock and horror movies.She gets pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker and decides to go ahead with delivering the baby and putting the baby for adoption after contemplating abortion.What follows is a chain of events where she is to handle the pressure of pregnancy , the complications of adoption , her feelings for Bleeker etc.In the final part of the movie, she admits to Bleeker that she is in love with him and before the final credit rolls they are shown jamming in front of Bleeker's house followed by a kiss..
The dialogues of the movie are hilariously funny , without being funny on your face , but more like Oh! I was caught unaware on camera when I said this kinda style. As an Indian audience I was also surprised by the ease by which they managed such a sensitive topic which would have raised quite a few eyebrows in here, there where no yelling/screaming/judgment of any sort in the whole movie even in the scene where the girl explains the situation to her parents.This might have been a conscious take by the makers where they did not want it to be a preaching kinda movie but about how a cool intelligent girl handles the situation.Any Indian director would have thrown in quite a few scenes of melodrama making people cringe in their seats.But yeah..the oh so cultural differences .... Who am I to complain!!
The music of Juno is a cherry on top of a delightful cheese cake, cheese cake being the movie ofcourse..( Dun know what it is with me giving unwanted emphasis on the cake here...maybe bcus of the whole Xmas season :D ). The album features several songs performed by Kimya Dawson and her bands Antsy Pants and The Moldy Peaches . Out of all the cute songs my favorite is All I want is U by Barry Louis Polisar . This is the official track of the movie and it is played during the opening credits of the movie while an animated Juno walk thru the streets ..
You can get the lyrics of All I want is U here... and the song can be downloaded frm here ...
I recommend the movie to all drama lovers ;) ...Happy Xmas !
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