Movies have always(and hopefully will always)fascinated me...its not the actors, technicians, the laborers or the amount of money that goes into a movie that has fascinated me, but how a simple human mind(in some cases a collection of minds)is able to turn something so abstract into something thats worth speculating and imagining..
Having written a review of a movie..i now consider myself a small time amateur critic of movies...i analyse movies just for my own satisfaction...its a kinda selfish motive only..its like each time i look at a still/frame i notice something new...each time i hear a dialogue repeated i kinda learn something new...guess i learn more from movies than from books...reading does exhaust me at times...but not watching..
It took a pretty long time for me to get propelled into analysing movies given the fact that i have a director within my family...but this propelling action was kinda restricted to tamizh movies only...it was like i didnt sorta "hear" the many brilliant other language movies that were made...and anyways i wasnt really old enough to see all genres of movies...
So what propelled me into movies...the faintest memory i have of first being awe struck seeing a movie is khakha khakha...i was kinda stunned after watching the movie...i dont mean to say it was the greatest movie i ever saw..it just kinda gave a beginning...
But the big break had to wait for some more years...i had finished tenth and i unassumingly caught hold of a dvd of the film "the Matrix" at my uncle's house...it was a combo dvd with the first two parts of the trilogy present...since i was jobless i just played it...
thankfully the movie was sub titled...i couldnt hear most of the dialogues even at full volume...the movie started of pretty slowly...exploded suddenly and finished off in an abstract...
frankly speaking, though i was awed by the movie...i didnt quite connect to the story...so i played it again the next day...and this time it hit me...
i had, before seeing the matrix, had seen a handful of hollywood movies...like gladiator, titanic...some other crap movies(some of which were put on vijay tv :D)...but not quite this...i hadnt seen a sci fi movie before...dealing with the future...man vs machine kinda thing(ya...i hadnt seen terminator then)...but the one real thing which caught me was the "maya" effect(aka illusions)...i had heard of this effect when i was a kid...but to see the effect transformed into a series of incidents and events(ie a movie)...i was quite awe struck by the director's imagination...and i saw the second part the same day...was very impressed by the stunts(till date...they are the best kind of stunts i have seen yet)...and a month later i caught hold of the third part..
i was pretty impressed with the trilogy...it was like the greatest movie i had seen then not realising what was to come..i did manage to see all the three movies atleast a coupla times more in the years to come...
so the basic crux is that...this movie opened the floodgates...i began to see a lot more hollywood and british movies...i read about famous story lines and screenplays and actors...like i began knowing more about cinema..
(if u did realise my nom-de-plume is The 1=the one which is a jumbled form of-"the neo"-the lead character's name in the matrix...thats my ode to the movie..my ode to the big break it gave)
and college has really played an important role in improving my knowledge of cinema...it has widened the horizons a bit...exposed me to newer thinking styles newer themes newer screenplays and an amazing list of actors...and now i do consider "dark knight" to be the greatest movie i have seen till now...but its possible i might see a better movie than that...
off late i have indeed realised one thing...there is no stopping to the process of learning in cinema...you just have to keep learning and keep growing...and i am trying the same...its been more of hollywood and kollywood all my life...in the future i do desire to expand my horizons to world movies...to movies which are made in different parts of the world..i think thats the ultimate place where a true "critic" will want to be...the pinnacle of film making...
the trouble with seeing movies made all over the world is...you cant relate to most of the themes...its pretty much a fair reason though considering you cant see the way of life of most people around the world...another complimenting reason would be "lack of resources"...there are not many people who follow world cinema as such and hence its tough to become a follower...the inspiration factor and the resources are lower(atleast in my nation)...but i do maintain this belief of mine.."if u need something...u need to seek it out"..
of course i am just an amateur yet and with divine help i have quite a few years of my life to become more than just an amateur...to be more imaginatively equipped and creatively enriched...
will put up reviews of some of the movies as and when i see of them...and hopefully you like my way of looking at things and my mode of analysing :D
jai ho cinema!!!!!!!
cheers,
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