The Autopsy Of Jane Doe

The most disgusting and one of the scariest films seen by me.

When I say disgusting I mean there are shots of a body being cut open and body parts being taken out so this one is certainly not for the squeamish or the pukish. 

I found myself looking away more times than I would care to accept.

And this is what makes the scary parts more frightening than usual because you know that there is a chopped up body somewhere nearby which is going to come alive and scare the

living daylights out of you. The performances are top-notch, the story is unique, but the climax could have been better. You kind of know what's going to happen.

Reminds me a bit of 1408 which too was a unique horror film both about people trapped in terrifying places with no way out and the mind playing frightening games. What's real and what's not, difficult to judge.

The Autopsy Of Jane Doe

1408 

DARK MATTER

This started off with a bang, right from the first page it zipped along at a brisk pace... But then around 20% into the novel, it started to lose momentum when the long descriptions started and the situations began repeating themselves. The protagonist takes more time to understand his predicament than the reader. I found myself saying, don't you understand where you are, and what's happening you simple, weak man? 

Frankly, the lead character was a bit of a sap, there are earthshattering events happening, different options, can lead to different outcomes. There is danger to many, maybe even to humanity itself, but the poor protagonist only wants to go to his home to his lovely wife and his kid. Boo hoo. In spite of everything, the only thing at stake here for him is his family life! Boo hoo. 

And then the story starts to go into bizarre territory as if the writer didn't know how to drag it along, he too had no idea what was happening. Remember Inception? 

The story had left the reader behind, and it didn't make sense at all. Quite frankly it was highly stupid if it didn't seem so highly scientific and intelligent. This is something that Hollywood does very well, it makes even the stupid seem intelligent by throwing a lot of science at you, and we the poor reader and audience feel, ohh boy, that scientific, then it's bound to be so clever that I can't understand it, so let me just accept it as a fact. But then they do go overboard, leaving logical readers like me way, way behind.

And in the end I didn't really care about it. Yawn. Well begun is half done, but that's just about it, it's just half done. Yet, it is an interesting read because of the concept and the broad storyline. Could have been much, much better.

DARK MATTER

Barefoot

This is romantic movie about a rich, spoilt, directionless man and a woman who is a patient in a psychiatric hospital and has been raised in isolation. And yes she remains barefoot, symbolic of her being naive, innocent, bare, untouched by corruption, greed, hatred, betrayal. In a way, it is a film about two opposites who come together to make magic. Well, if not magic, they do at least cast a pleasant spell on the world-hardened, stone-hearted audience like your's truly. This did come as a pleasant experience especially
because of the novel characters. Here the characters are the movie. Nothing else matters as much.     

The protagonist here is a down on his luck debt ridden guy (yes, he's got rich parents and owes a lot of money to the wrong kind of people). He works as a janitor in a loony bin where he supplies the patients with porn, booze etc. to make some additional income. One night, he saves the barefoot girl from being raped and she follows him outside as she doesn't want to stay in the hospital. She has been brought up in isolation and doesn't know the ways of the world and to her he is a nice man. 

So the protagonist comes up with a plan and takes her with him to his brother's wedding. He plans to convince his family that he is now a changed man and is going steady in life. At the wedding, the barefoot woman manages to charm everyone with her bare innocence and everyone starts to like her. The End.

Well, not exactly, the end, for it's here that the movie really begins. 

This is a sweet, romantic charmer of a story with extremely likeable lead characters and it's because these characters are so different that the film itself becomes better than the others. It rises beyond the average and turns into a memorable experience. 

It's also a light, fluffy comedy in parts, like a light pastry, quite enjoyable. It's a remake of a German film Barfuss. 

Barefoot

Best Man Down

This is a sweet film. At first glance it seems like a comedy, but it's really not. It's starts with a marriage and ends with a funeral. 

The plot is quite unique. During the marriage celebrations of the protagonist (Justin Long) the best man gets drunk and behaves in a most obnoxious manner embarrassing the groom and his bride.

The best man seems like a nutcase as he continues his drunken shenanigans in his hotel room long after the marriage party is over. And then, all of a sudden he dies! I was like WTF did just happen? How can he suddenly die? He was the life of the film so far! 

Well, anyway, he does die, and then Justin Long and his understanding bride, who were just going to head out to their honeymoon have to cancel their plans. They reluctantly decide to go to the best man's home town and organize a funeral instead of honeymooning and get in touch with his family. The problem is they know nothing about the best man. No idea about his background, family, history. In fact Justin realizes he didn't know anything about his best friend!

And as they travel to where the best friend lived they start to discover a lot about the best man who went down. And a lot about love and life.       

This is a movie about discovering a man's real worth after the person is gone. It's an emotional movie with positive vibes, not depressing at all. 

Yes, it's about a death and a funeral but deep down it's also about celebrating the life of a loved one who has left us. 

This is really an unknown movie with depth.

Best Man Down 

Frequency

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I have seen a lot of movies, good, bad and ugly. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. Imagine watching one movie, sometimes even two or three each day. Most of them are forgettable, meaning even a few days later I don't remember much of what I saw and they pass into movie heaven never to be heard of or seen again.

But then there are certain movies that stick with me all along. I never forget them, for various reason. It could be the actor, the location, the setting, the action, or anything else that makes it unforgettable.

And then you come across a movie which ticks all the right boxes, and most importantly it leaves an impression because of its story/writing. This kind of a movie is the very best as for me writing is supreme, it is numero uno. No star or director can save a movie if the writing sucks. 

If I were to make a list of such films (which I am doing right now via this blog), this is frankly the best of the rest! As far as the story and the script goes, this stands apart in originality, mystery, suspense, action, thrill (I rate it as highly as Back To The Future and a tad better than The Butterfly Effect! That's how good it is!).

This is loaded! And it blew me away.

The story is set in two separate timelines - 1999 and 1969. We intercut between the two and meet the two lead characters, in 1999 it's NYPD detective John Sullivan (Caviezel) who stays in the same home as his fireman father Frank (Quaid) who stayed there thirty years ago. 

John find his father's old radio and begins to tinker with it and because of some mumbo jumbo the old radio starts to connect to its old (when it was new) self! Meaning it starts to transmit conversation between two men in two timelines (1999 and 1969) who are talking via the same radio to each other! Meaning using that radio the cop son (John, the cop) starts to talk to his own fireman father (Frank in 1969) one night before the father is going to die in a fire related incident.

Realizing that it's his father he is talking to John warns his father not to do such and such thingy (of course, the son knows how his father died and tries to change events). 

The connection gets cut and father and son separate once again. The next time the son logs in he finds out that his father is still alive and has not perished in the fire as he was supposed to. 

But this one event has changed history because of this small change they have put themselves in danger as a psycho killer will be targeting both in their two different timelines (not to mention their wife/mother has been killed and what not!). So father and son join hands via the radio to stop the brutal killer  targeting them and become a family once again.

Well it may sound confusing and a bit far-fetched but it's really not, inspite of the twisted storyline the it's easily understood and exciting and edge-of-the-seat, nailbiting stuff.

If you haven't seen it, watch this one. No, no, don't thank me, I'm just doing my good deed of the day. But if you do want to help then do check out my writing How I Murdered Myself. 

Frequency

  

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