AshokePrabha

Clint Eastwood takes out a unique story inspired by a real life account where a 90 years old guy was arrested while working as a Mule, who carries drugs across borders, for the drug-lords.

He himself acted as that Mule driver. What was his compulsion to turn into a Mule at this old age, would be the question to everybody who would watch this film.

This question is not very well addressed.

Instead, Client Eastwood looks into what all things one would have missed with the family, when that person totally away from all family people throughout his life and finally regrets about them at the age of 90.

As a director he executed the script very well. The spontaneity of Earl even when he was taking millions of worth of drugs, interacting moments with his wife, daughter and grand daughter are usual emotional sequences. Dianne wiest gave some good performance as Eastwood's wife.

Photography, music are following Eastwood's directing tune and good. His favourite editor Joex Cox edited. Good as usual.

If the script focused on few other things along with Eastwood's spontaneous character, film would have become more of a classic.

I am his ardent fan. Considering his directing career, this is another watchable film of Eastwood.

At this age, his passion into good cinema is what is more amazing to me.

Joker is a comic book villain in one of the Batman movies. How did Joker, an aspiring comedy actor turned to become a gruesome villain ? This movie is written after the popularity of the Joker villain in batman movie, tracing back Joker's past life.

it's a psychological study of Joker's life.It narrates the identity confusion he gets around his thirties. His innocent, soft heart that wanted make people laugh throughout his life was continuously destroyed by people around him. Mother, Father and a Hero he admired in his life.

The movie revolves around Joaquin Phoenix, the Joker's efforts to become a successful stage act comedian, his loneliness, sufferings and how the reality laughs at him. At one moment, he stops trying to make people laugh through his stage act and starts living as a 'new-smiling-faced' Joker who paints a laughing face to the front and revenges out the entire society that laughed at him.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie about loneliness, pain and losing one's own identity.. Could not sleep through the night after watching it. Phoenix did a brilliant performance. He seemed like lived through those pains. Photography is conveying dark and sad emotions throughout perfectly. It's also about rich people getting more rich and poor people getting more poor. Hats off to the director who conceived the character completely.

Overall, It's a poor man's crazy revolution. 9 out of 10.

One of my friend who watched this film in a film festival got this film and I happen to see it now. It is a simple and beautiful movie dealing about 'border issue'.

It's a Tajik movie from Tajikistan. It came in 2009. But the movie talks about a period around 1992 when Tajkistan got separated from USSR as a separate country. I watched the film with subtitles.

The story revolves around a girl called Nilufar in a hill-side village and her planned wedding and about a Climate observatory. The back drop is with two villages on the hills where Nilufar lives and works in the Climate observatory. Her marriage gets fixed with a guy whom she loves for long and he lives in the up-side village.

When her marriage is about to happen suddenly the army comes in and puts up a long fence between two villages saying that one side belongs to another country. And nobody can trespass the fence and if they had to cross the fence they should go to the security post 50 miles around and get permission and go other side.

Initially, the people were oblivious about this warning asking 'we were transacting between hills and down for our day to day lives without anybody's permission so far. why now ?'. But the army persists. School was at one side and the students are from another side. Hospital is caught at one side. People suffer with similar sort of problems and try to trespass the security fence by cutting it. Then the Army comes and plants land mines and barbed wire to stop people from crossing.

Now what happened to Nilufar's wedding, her mother's labour pains and to the cows of the lady etc are seen in a more practical down to earth manner.

We may not cry at the end but the movie definitely makes its impact on us. To question ourselves about what a border is and means.

The film is nicely photographed, with beautiful locations; no unnecessary music choices. It shows self-fulfilling village people; concerned about each other; friendly and caring. There is no deliberate scene to make any point. There is no heavy drama play. But still our heart is there.

I enjoyed this film thoroughly. You would also enjoy it.