Before Midnight

I watch a lot of movies...various genres...Have been impressed, awestruck, confounded, left speechless, dazzled by many, but no movie(s) has ever given me so much optimism and "hope" towards my future & personal relationships than Before Sunrise, Before Sunset & Before Midnight. It's been 20 years since Before Sunrise, & its been 20 years in Jesse & Celine's lives too. And it has been a fascinating journey indeed. Through a labyrinth of initial crush & the euphoria, amalgamation of 2 very different but intellectually stimulating minds, separation, reunion, euphoria, life altering events, twins, "no marriage yet" and ever increasing doubts & nagging, Jesse & Celine keep moving forward, keep revisiting their friendship which made everything possible, keep falling in love with each other. I hope I do not have to wait another decade to know what happens next in their lives but then I hope they keep growing & aptly still be together at the next sunrise

Spring Breakers

Wow...surreal...puts you in a trance like state....4 friends travel to Florida for their spring break, to get away from the daily mundane student life of theirs, to let their hair down, to soak in the sum and the sands...And it turns out to be a life altering break for them...James Franco is freakishly awesome...Florida has never been captured so beautifully.... Sad and tragic ending but they wanted the spring break to continue forever

Trance 2013

Danny Boyle & James McAvoy come together to really screw with your mind..Enough turns & twists to keep you glued on your seat..Rosario Dawson is the icing on the cake as the vengeful calculating hypnotist. What starts as an art house heist gone wrong turns out to be much much more complex & mind fucking..Satisfying conclusion & slick editing...Indeed takes you to a hypnotic high to a state of mind called Trance :)