Category: Books

Baby Driver-Personal Movie Review!! 


Baby Driver,A fun crazy ride.Driven by a eccentric teenager,played by ansel Elgort who was part of the movie “Fault in our stars.” But as he falls in love with Debora played by Lily games who stared in Cinderella. He wants to change his track in life,But one more assignment from boss played by Kevin Spacey,For his lucky charm.Makes him take the decision of taking the assignment.But…The movie written and directed by Edgar Wright who’s last  movies you could recall as “Ant man “and “The adventures of TinTin:”Secret of the unicorn. ”

The movie had a feel of the 90s with cassets and recorders being used by Baby including today’s tech like the iPod,The loots too were keeping in mind today’s times and planning them out.

Action.Speed.Music. Was what made this an enjoyable watch. Giving you a thrilling ride,In a comfortable seat.

Wunderland!! 


Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg The world’s largest Model railway is a tourist attraction, and the highlight for me in my trip to Germany.

Can you imagine a tiny real world, from cities around the world, giving the same feeling of the actual cities.

Last vegas,Night effect would give you the feeling of standing on “the strip” and watching the lighting .

The flight taking off,With the sound effect of the engine and the movement of the airplane going on the runaway ready to take off, would only give you the sense and feeling as if you were there at the airport witnessing the action,These airplanes models had the branding of lufthansa,airberlin ,Emirates and many more airlines on them.The most amazing experience of witnessing the real world around the globe in a tiny space.

Trivia of the wonderland:

* The project was created by twin brothers Frederik and Gerrit Braun

nine years and spent £8million 

*a replica of the Hamburg Airport and Italy . Of the 6,800 m2(73,195 sq ft) of floorspace, the model takes 1,490 m2 (16,038 sq ft

By 2020, the exhibit is expected to have reached its final construction phase, including at least a total of ten new sections in a model area of over 2,300 m2 (24,757 sq ft). The exhibit includes 1,300 trains made up of over 10,000 carriages, over 100,000 moving vehicles, ca. 500,000 lights, 130,000 trees, and 400,000 human figurines.    

*The longest train stands at a staggering 46ft. It even has a control centre from which the train movements are monitored.

The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars and an impressive 

*Nearly four tonnes of steel was used to construct the scenery along with 110st of artificial grass.

*The ‘Miniatur Wunderland’ has six regions including America, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany and the Austrian Alps.

In the U.S. section you’ll find intricate models of the Rocky Mountains, the Everglades, Cape Canaveral and the Grand Canyon.

While in Switzerland model the mighty Matterhorn mountain rises 6m from the set.

The Communist !! 

Neruda- An autobiography movie on the well known poet (Pen Name)Pablo Neruda who was Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who was actually called Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. The movie was heavyly based on his novel the underground.A great thriller where He (Neruda) is directing A determined police inspector played by (Gael García Bernal) who is searches for Chilean politician Pablo Neruda that’s him  played by (Luis Gnecco) after he goes into hiding in 1948.

The movie was interesting as even during the late 40s-50s the artist expression was under threat and almost 70 years later very little has changed.

The artist even during those times were forced to hide and escape regularly. 

The Movie also made me notice a strange observation ,the artist of the 50s were part of communism,whether it was Dalton Trumbo a well known screenwriter who has written movies like “Spartacus, “”Roman Holiday “” The brave one “and many more.He was even forced to write movies under many Pen names.

Neruda too was being hunted for his influence as a communist and his poetry which occasionally he wrote under many pen names.    

Dalton Trumbo too was in exile for a long time.

 Trumbo and his compatriots would not be permitted to work in the industry, unless they disavowed Communism under oath.

 Trumbo wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, for B-Movie studios such as King brothers productions. In the case of Gun Crazy (1950), adapted from a short story.

Trumbo’s role in the screenplay was not revealed until 1992.

 2011, the Guild gave him full credit for the script of Roman holiday.

Coming back to neruda 

On March 4, 1945, Neruda was elected a Communist Senator for the northern provinces in the Atacama Desert .He officially joined the Communist Party of chile four months later.But within no time was forced to go into hiding

Two stories,of two very little known personalities,Who were part of times where the freedom they had was little,But their passion and effort to continue doing what they enjoyed should surely be noted.  

Truman Capote 


  A story of Trunam Capote a writer who after reading an article in the newspaper of a crime story,Was motivated to investigate the story and became part of the investigation why did these boys murder the kanas family?He travels to Kansas with his partner to research a murder case for his new book. Soon, he shows compassion towards the killers and develops a relationship with one of them.

His relationship with Nelle Harper Lee, Yes the author of “Killing a mocking Bird” is shown how they were such good friends and would support each other.

The investigation of the crime helps Truman Capote to introduce a new style of writing and the nonfiction novel, which is simply putting a true story into the form of a conventional fiction novel and thus his most well known work in ‘In Cold Blood’ was published. 

Trunam Capote is also known for writing “The Breakfast at Tiffany” first as a book,Then as a film starring Audrey Hepburn.

The other known fact about him is he dropped out of school early and taught himself to Read and write 

Capote based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on his Monroeville neighbor and best friend, Harper Lee.

Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I’m a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived.

 

Into The Water-Book Review!

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Julia it’s me.I need you to call me back. 

Please,Julia.It’s important…’

Now Nel  is dead.They say she jumped.

And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good,To care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. 

Into the water is a thriller written by Paula Hawkins,The Author of the bestselling book “The Girl on the Train” 

The style of writing  in this book is similar to the one she first wrote,Giving us an insight to the characters by having characters speaking about their thoughts,Views and action Individually.There are more characters introduced in the beginning itself this time,Making it slightly difficult to follow who it might be the muderer.  

Book is  written in four parts each part ending with the question what happens. And you just cannot keep the book down and want to continue reading.

A good thriller but not as good as the first one “The Girl On The Train”

The thing with reading thriller is you could guess who might be the killer.But as you read along it becomes difficult to register all the information and makes it interesting to read.Where as watching thriller your mind cannot stop analysing what might happen next.And occasionally you guess the suspense even before the story concludes.