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The portrayal of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector in the Second World War, in the movie Hacksaw Ridge is a tale of courage, maintaining one’s convictions and not shirking away from duty. The movie, based on the real life heroics of Corporal Doss, who saved 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa and was awardedContinue reading “HACKSAW RIDGE (2016) – KEEPING TO THE COMMANDMENT ‘THOU SHALT NOT KILL’ IN THE MIDDLE OF WAR”

Black Hawk Down, is a 2001 war film, directed by Ridley Scott. The movie describes the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, where the US military raided the city for high value targets and got caught up in an intense ambush. The film has a large cast with several actors, including Tom Hardy in his firstContinue reading “BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001) – STRATEGIC LESSONS GATHERED FROM THE ACTUAL BATTLE”

Uri: The Surgical strike was a Hindi movie (Bollywood) from last year, starring Vicky Kaushal as the protagonist but boasting of other talented actors including Paresh Rawal. Uri: The Surgical Strike is based on the 2016 Pakistan sponsored terrorist attack on the Indian Army camp at Uri which led to the deaths of 23 IndianContinue reading “URI THE SURGICAL STRIKE (2019) – EVOLUTION OF THE WAR MOVIE GENRE IN INDIAN CINEMA”

The financial crisis of 2008-09 and the worldwide recession that followed gave us several years of disappointment but a few really good movies. The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s 2010 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.  The movie focuses on several American financial professionals who predicted the ultimate collapse of the house market andContinue reading “THE BIG SHORT (2015) – MEET THE PLAYERS AND THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT”

Saving Private Ryan is one of the most acclaimed war movies ever made. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and several, talented actors, it is a trailblazer in the war film genre.    It is set in June 1944, in the wake of D-Day and the Normandy landings and its firstContinue reading “SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) – QUESTIONING MORALITY IN WAR”

One of the most acclaimed movies of 2014, Nightcrawler is considered to be a look into the ‘stringer’ culture feeding on the desire of today’s audiences for more and more engaging news – what it actually is, is a look into human depravity and our capacity to be entertained by suffering and disaster. Our enjoymentContinue reading “NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) – A LOOK INTO THE DEPRAVED HUMAN SOUL”