Un cuento chino

Imagine yourself being lost in an unknown place with no money, smartphone etc. where people speak in a different language you don't understand. So what you can do?

Un cuento chino

Before you start thinking in your mother tongue, here is an Argentine movie "Un cuento chino" that narrates the journey of a Chinese man who is lost after landing at the airport of Buenos Aires, where he doesn't speak nor understand Spanish language neither do the native people speak Chinese.

While watching the film I was imagining that if the audience don't speak Chinese & Spanish language, then watching it without subtitles would bring different interpretations. At the same time, this film has different point of view for the Chinese (mandarin speaking) audiences who can't speak Spanish.

Director Sebastián Borensztein has comically & emotionally created a bonding between the two countries of China & Argentina through a protagonist character Roberto (played by Ricardo Darín). He is a lonely man & owns a machinery shop. He maintains a strict daily routine & has a rare hobby of collecting bizarre news from the newspaper where coincidentally a Chinese story of a cow falling from an airplane & killing a lover on the boat was one among his favorite. One day he discovers a helpless Chinese man Jun (Ignacio Huang) near the airport, being robbed and left without anything except an address tattooed on his shoulder. 

Roberto (left) & Jun (right) sharing sign language

One cannot enjoy the movie with subtitles because it will ruin the real essence of this movie. Actor Ricardo Darín has taken the story to a different level by delivering the final interpretation to the audience. 

"Es una película para los amantes de idiomas" --- Those who don't speak Spanish, they can copy & translate this sentence in google. If you pause for a while & choose not to, then it will live for long just like the Chinese dialogues in this movie that I don't understand at all but it creates my own interpretation of human emotions.

Corazón de León

Love has no boundary, no language, no limitations. It is universal in a way that we can fall at any point of time. Whether we watch Hollywood movies of Woody Allen, Bollywood romantic movies or Bengali movies like "Devdas", we enjoy feeling it from our heart.

Every ambition has to pay, so does love. At some point of our life we all fall in love without thinking or judging much but rather we develop a feeling that comes from inside. Here Ivana Cornejo (Julieta Díaz) a successful lawyer, develops a feeling for León Godoy (Guillermo Francella) an architect, in this Argentine movie "Corazón de León".

Heart Of Lion

But what is so special about this couple?

Here the protagonist character, León, is un enano i.e. a dwarf & Ivana falls in love with him irrespective of their differences in height.

"Me fatlan 40 centimetros, pero es nada grave-- It lacks only 40 cm nothing much" says León on their first meeting at a restaurant. Ivana is surprised to meet him as she has created an imaginary portray of this man based on a telephonic conversation they had before.

Now the story outshines our common belief that we generally follow like- LOVE at FIRST sight, FIRST impression is the LAST impression, bla bla bla... At first it gives us a clear scenario where we can sense that nothing will work out between this mismatched couple. Dating is out of question. But the spectacular narration of this romantic comedy film by Director Marcos Carnevale, slowly unfolds the emotional feelings of Ivana for this man León. The more we enter into the film, the deeper we encounter the character of this man as a father, friend & lover surpassing his height. 

LOVE is like a dream. We don't realize it in the beginning until we wake up in the middle, not being able to complete the journey.

  

Love Sex aur Dhoka

Director Dibakar Banerjee introduce the shaky hand-held camera technique for the first time in India to make this film in 2010 with the help of security & spy camera before the arrival of selfie era that we are living now. We can find resemblance of these techniques in some Hollywood horror films like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity & in the recent Spanish feature film "La Cueva". 

The title of this film gives the clear idea about what we are witnessing in our society among the youth. Here three different stories are being portrayed where each one of them goes through the journey of Love, Sex and betrayal.

The first story reminds me of a long lost & forgotten identity of Rizwanur Rahman in Kolkata where his mysterious death brought a terrible example in our society of committing a big error of being fallen in love with a girl of rich & conservative family.

First part- Rahul (middle), a film school student infatuated with the leading actress Shruti

The second story is the vital part of the movie where it connects the first & third part as the main plot. Here a guy Adarsh (Rajkumar Rao) tries to seduce an employee Rashmi (Neha Chauhan) of the store mall to have sex in front of the shop's security camera, so that he can make a lot of profit out of it. While playing he falls in love with her without even realizing it. So the conflict between greed & emotion starts developing until it ends with a decision at the final moment.

2nd part

The third part involves a journalist who is looking for a scandal story as a way of sting operation. He discovers an aspiring dancer Naina (Arya Banerjee) who is a victim of a Punjabi pop singer Loki Local. She was being promised to get launched in a music video with him but instead he was using her only for the purpose of sex. So the sting operation is to expose the casting couch with help of a hidden camera. Everything depends upon the trust between Naina & the journalist, whether the sting operation will be successful or not.

3rd part- Sting operation

The three different stories of the movie follow the same experience of love, sex and betrayal. Their paths somehow coincided along the way. If you are expecting a prime time entertainment from LSD, then it is more than that because the narration is the focus of all ENTERTAINMENT.  

TU NANGI ACHI LAGTI HAYE-- uncensored song