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1983

India won the World Cup in Cricket converting yours truly into a total cricket fan.

The Star Wars series continued its success with Return of the Jedi topping the charts.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller becomes a rage.

And in the same year on Dec 9, was released a movie that would polarize the movie lovers community into 2 camps, those who hated it and those who loved it.

Many hated the movie on release, it was torn apart by critics, but there were a few who loved it for its edgy style. 25 years later, the movie still continues to be fiercely debated and discussed. But a growing legion of admirers, have conferred it a cult classic status. And yours truly is one in that group.

The movie i am referring to of course is Scarface, the Al Pacino movie , about the rise and fall of Tony Montana, a Cuban gangster. This is not …

Michael Mann crafts an intense, hard hitting drama based on the real life story of whistleblower Dr.Jeffrey Wigand.  Intense to the core, not to be missed. Apart from Al Pacino, Russel Crowe, Christopher Plummer, watch out for one of the best cameos by  Bruce Mc Gill.
Rating - 4.5/5

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“Probably done this before” - Christopher Nolan - HOW DOES HE DO THAT ???

EVERY TIME ???

Every time he conjures up a brilliant,twisted,convoluted,serpentine script which doesn’t indulge itself, entertains, doesn’t take the EASY way out … doesn’t give u a deja-vu feel .. doesn’t give u a “i could see that coming” feeling…is novel everytime …dark .. MAD MAD screenwriting ..MAD MAD direction .. and absolute mad sense of editing.

FOLLOWING
How did he make this film spanned over a year ?
Was it really an “indi” film ? Doesn’t look like it…
Hopeless people put in awkward sometimes sympathetic situations…. often reaching a tragic conclusion …
Was really the budget of the film 5000 pounds ??
The use of VO .. documentary feel … eventually blending into fiction …. HOW the hell does he come up with that ?
Repeated close ups of hand movements … small …