Unnai Poloruvan

I was so moved by the film "The wednesday" that I couldn't resist myself from watching its remake. It was out of curiosity as to how the two great actors can transform the movie in their way.

But the end result was disappointing. It is proved once again that classics cant be recreated.
In wednesday, there are various trivial things that moves you, but those emotions are not carried in "Unnai poloruvan"
Unnai poloruvan disappoints...especially since it is remake of "The Wednesday"
http://listofcinema.blogspot.com/2008/11/wednesday.html

Requiem for a Dream

My Rating : 2.5/5

It was rated as one of the Top 100 movies by IMDB. It was a depressing movie.

The film charts three seasons in the lives of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly), and Harry’s friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans). Each character is ultimately destroyed by addiction and self-delusion.

The story begins in summer. Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow living alone in her Brighton Beach apartment, spends her time watching infomercials on television. After a phone call announces that she will be invited to be a participant on a game show, she becomes obsessed with matching her appearance to a photograph from Harry's graduation, her proudest moment. In order to fit into her old red dress, the favorite of her deceased husband, she begins taking a regimen of prescription weight-loss amphetamine pills throughout the day and a sedative at night. The pills alter her behavior, but she passionately insists that the chance to be on television has given her a reason to live. Over the fall, however, her invitation does not arrive, and she begins to up her dosage, causing nightmarish hallucinations, where she is the principal subject of the game show.

Her son Harry is a heroin addict. Together with his friend, Tyrone, and his girlfriend, Marion — who are also addicts — he enters the drug trade in an attempt to realize their dreams. With the money they make over the summer, Harry and Marion hope to open a fashion store for Marion's designs, while Tyrone dreams of escaping the street and making his mother proud. However, at the beginning of fall, Tyrone is caught in the middle of a drug gang assassination, and Harry uses the majority of the money they've earned to bail him out of prison. Meanwhile, because of the arrests and shootings of dealers, it becomes very hard to obtain any drugs, throwing Harry, Tyrone, and Marion into a state of deprivation. Growing more desperate, Harry convinces Marion to have sex with her psychiatrist in exchange for money, causing a rift in the relationship. The group continues to deteriorate as Marion begins prostituting herself and Harry's arm becomes severely infected from improper injection technique.

With winter comes the final arc in the characters' downward spirals. Sara's sanity unravels after she visits the TV studio and she is put in a mental institution, where she undergoes painful electroconvulsive therapy. Harry and Tyrone travel to Florida, where they believe they can start over, but Harry's deteriorating condition forces them to visit a hospital in South Carolina, where they are arrested. However, Harry is taken to a prison hospital because of his arm, which is amputated. Tyrone must deal with racist prison guards, hard labor, and drug withdrawal all alone. Harry has a recurring dream of Marion waiting for him at the pier at Coney Island, but awakens and realizes that he is alone, an arm amputated and in jail. Marion meets with a pimp, who makes her have sex with him for drugs and later at an orgy where she puts on a perverted show for heroin and cash.

Lost in misery, each character curls into a fetal position. In Sara's dream, however, she wins the grand prize that the game show offers and meets Harry there. In her fantasy, Harry is a successful businessman, engaged to Marion. Mother and son hug and say how much they love one another through the cheers of the crowd and the glowing stage lights.

Lucky Number Slevin

This movie was suggested to me by Shivan. This was like usual suspects but not as good as that one.
In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival.

New York

New York brings to screen an event that reverberated universally.
It touches the lives of three friends – Maya (Katrina Kaif), Sameer (John Abraham) and Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh) – leading a carefree life in New York.
The catastrophic terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 is the ugly twist in the tale which turns their lives topsy turvy.
Irrfan Khan steps in as a crime investigator.
Their identities, based on their ethnicity, comes under scrutiny and they have to face an unfair yet harsh reality in an atmosphere charged with suspicion and paranoia.
A star-spangled film that starts off well, builds the plot nicely, but goes completely hay wire in the second half. New York is long, tiresome, but well intentioned. Director Kabir Khan tries to delineate the insidious process of the making of a terrorist. It all boils down to a climax so shoddily imagined and executed, that you cease to relate to any of the characters. Saddled with a plot-holed script and poor performances from half of its star cast, New York falls short of expectations.