Sin Nombre (2009 - Mexico)
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
A street gang member and his leader went aboard the goods train full of illegal immigrants above the roof in hopes of getting asylum and transport to the nearest US border destination. While both of them are trying to cash up all the people by crook's way, his leader suddenly found lustful interest on a girl with a father and an uncle with her. With a blight memory of how the gang member's girlfriend was accidentally killed by his leader, he finds vengeance by killing his leader before he gets to rape the girl. Trying to escape out every wrong choices he made, he rides with them aboard the train in solitude...but not when the girl finds a sudden warmth and gratitude to the guy for saving her life.
I realized that this movie was produced by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. Diego Luna likes to produce bleak movies hence the perspective the movie gives us. Let's just say that I had a good run of Spanish language movies at the time when Gael Garcia Bernal was famous (movies like La Mala Educacion, Amores Perros, The Crime of Padre Amaro, The Motorcycle Diaries, etc.) and this doesn't seem new to me (and no, Gael doesn't star in this). It only gave me a little off-putting because somehow I felt the movie still done it out in a 'stylish' (or 'pretentious' if I'm going to say it in direct IMDb terms) manner amidst the nice sequence portrayals of the story. I noticed the number of enthusiasms by the audience to this movie. I hope the type of enthusiasm they had was because they hadn't viewed such types of movies and it feels good or new to their eye. ;-P
i thought this was Calle Sin Nombre
to each his/her own
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
point taken...like i said,no offence please,you're a bollywood fan,i'm not,let's leave it @ that...
my dear friend,let's sort this out point-by-point,yeah?
#1 - i was not comparing Dil Se to this movie.was just comparing the similar locales....people atop a train.nothing beyond that.period.
#2 - all movies made in bollywood is not trash and all movies do not have "happy endings and leave your brains at home stuff" as you put it.i guess the latest Oscar winning 'Slumdog Millionaire' is proff enough.please do your homework before you make strong statements like this.
#3 - a huge majority of people in rural india still travel atop trains.so it's nothing unreal to us.and about the singing and dancing....there may not be such glamourous extras but people do hum along regional and traditional songs to while away the time.since this is a movie,the director just added a bit of spice.that's all.
#4 - and about this particular movie in question, Dil Se was screened at the Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival. The film went on to win the Netpac Award for Special Mention at the Berlin International Film Festival, two National Film Awards, and six Filmfare Awards. The film was a success overseas, becoming the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts.....so i wouldn't exactly classify it under 'trash'
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
@ svelte_saggi...excuse me asking,but please explain to me how you could even choose to compare a film by Gael Garcia Bernal no less with this room temperature IQ bollywood trash made for the masses?...please don't take this the wrong way,you're obviously a big fan,but seriously,there is REAL cinema,like the film in question above & then there is bollywood fantasy stuff made purely for entertainment,always a happy ending,leave your brains @ home kind of stuff...they're completely different genres that are not even in the same league of film making let alone actually comparing them...the poster of Sin Nombre depicts a gritty brutal reality that a certain section of South American society lives everyday as opposed to this guy dancing atop a train with a woman & like a 100 extras,excuse my ignorance,but unless i missed something,does any one thing in that scene depict a reality of any sort whatsoever?...
that pic reminds me of the 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' song from 'Dil Se' :-D
P.S:Shahrukh Khan again :-P
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor