Krishna and Radha

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Last night I saw a wonderful movie, entitled Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. The setting was Victorian era India, you know... when the British thought they could run everyone elses country better. Well the plot was about a young man named Bhuvan who stood up to the British rulers and was in turn challenged to a game of cricket... the brits *

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[audreyyy]

I saw that movie about a year ago. It was great, so incredibly powerful especially the last cricket game.

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I agree, and the cricket game being divided into three days made it more suspenseful. Although it had a typical ended, i.e. 'good guys' win, you were not necessarily lead to believe that, and foreign films are not in the habit of requiring happy endings for successful films like american cinema is.

I might have found this movie long before now, but my foreign film interests normally lie in the asian directors further east of India, like Wong Kar-wai and Kurosawa.

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[audreyyy]

I saw some kurosawa films. the shadow warrior i think is one of them. and i think he was the one who did the series of dreams? wow that was beautiful.
and some wong kar wai. i loved chungking express and awaiting his 2046.

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Chungking Express is fantastic, although I like Fallen Angels a bit more, and it's supposed to be a continuation of the story that started in Chungking Express. The tie-in of the pinapple joke between both of them still makes me laugh. I don't know, although Chunking was great, it seems like Fallen Angels was more of a 'realised' vision for it. I've been awaiting 2046 as well, if what I've heard is true, my favorite director is about to step into my favorite genre, it's bound to be great.

As for Kurosawa, I'm not a huge fan of his, I just respect his vision, and I'm a Japanese history buff, and he make films that we in the Society call 'period' pieces, meaning they are historically accurate on most accounts.