Thursday, March 22, 2007

life, liberty, & ...

'pursuit of happyness'

Just finished watching Will Smith and Jaden Smith (Will's son in real life too) starrer 'pursuit of happyness'.... and as mentioned in the American Declaration of Independence - 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', the movie, based on a true story of Chris Gardner, now a multi-millionaire, just so succinctly reiterates the theme and the message of 'the will to carry on in the pursuit of happiness' - which we all crave for, strive for. Specially stirring emotinally are the moments between the father-son duo and the ones where will Chris Gardner (Will Smith) simply cannot break-down in front of his son. Good Watch.

... to mention another movie that I saw recently, 'Blood Diamond'. Set against the backdrop of civil war and smuggling of conflict diamonds in 1990s in Sierra Leone in Africa, the movie has Leonardo Di Caprio starring as Danny Archer, smuggling diamonds out of the war-torn region. He teams up with a local fisherman, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) who has suffered in the war in their quest for a rare diamond - albeit for different reasons of their own. Violent, the movie is a gripping tale of greed, exploitation and the price that is put to conflict-diamonds - the price in terms of human lives. Leonardo Di Caprio in one of his best performances ever, plays the character to the core, incorporating the multiple nuances and shades with an excellence.

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hi Ankit sir,

I was just going through your blogs :). Too good....

Remember me ...CpCallm, saurabh,me and you use to go for drink

3:35 AM  
Blogger Mini Sarin said...

Hey Ankit, you have not updated your blog for over an year. Why don't you start doing so?

8:53 AM  

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