~ Let the Sky fall... at Skyfall ~

I watched many Bond movies, but my favorite Bond is Daniel Craig. Okay, seems I belong to the younger generation... though I´m 33 years old. But only Daniel made Bond interesting for me. So I watched "Casino Royale" many times. My little brother is a big "Don - The chase begins again" Fan. I suggested him "Casino Royale" and some day he watched it and was in awe, too. Together we talked days and nights about CR and QoS. We watched it in german, in english, we simply wanted to understand everything. After Shahrukh brought us two-gether, now it was Daniel who created new rituals for us siblings. I enjoyed all discussions. My brother is half my age and that gives our discussions more layer and views. He watched "Skyfall" few days back, but don´t know if he liked it. Here`s my review now.

When I saw the first trailer, my first thought was: "Oh noooo, why so short hair, Daniel?" Mmmh so I´m still asking, coz I got no answer during the movie. I didn´t liked his short hairs. In the next movie maybe he has no hairs. No no, I don´t liked that. Just one minus point does not suffice for this. I had to bear it the whole time. It got better when his beard grew a little. Daniel looks stunning with stubbles. Well, okay I equalise his look by adding pluspoints for his stubbles. BUT there was another thing I didn´t understand. He had a Bondgirl, but no sex with her? Plus she shaved his holy stubbles !!! with a RAZOR. Nooo. How could she? She´s a bad girl. Too bad for our good Bond. Better don´t sleep with her. Okay Plus-point for that. ;-)

Another "but"... I didn´t understand why Sam Mendes compressed so much story in so few scenes. I felt he cutted many scenes. Not just the action is faster, also the storytelling. :-( In one scene Bond got to know a girl, in the next scene he takes a shower with her. Nooo, that was weird. Maybe the audience should decide wether it's just a dream or reality. But he was on the boat, in her room. Must be true, ayooo. If that scene was cutted, I wish it's available on the dvd later. Honestly I´m not much interested in a story. I just want to enjoy the picture in front of my eyes. They can talk what they want, it will make sense, if I like what I see. But if I can´t see beauty or truth and pure emotions, then I can´t understand the story. Then it's a bad story or -telling. I´m sorry.

There was almost no relationship between Bond and his girls. Many emotions got missed. There were some small emotional scenes between Bond and M. I enjoyed these few scenes the most. I enjoyed Javier´s great acting. Saw new facets in his eyes. There I found depth, truth and pain. He gave Silva an unique and pure strength. I liked his great lines, just awesome dialogues. It was very entertaining. (Missed Bonds great dialogues.) But Silva had too little screentime. For such a villain you need more screentime and -space. I liked the camera work a lot. I liked the locations. It let me miss London very much. I´m someone who loves to travel with londons tube and I used the District Line a lot. The whole time when Daniel was walking through the tube, I was asking myself: "Uff, why he`s never there, when I´m there?" Minuspoint. :-p

I liked the visuals of Shanghai`s lights and the editing of the whole movie. Love Adele´s Song a lot. Listening it day and night. For me this song promised me more, than I got. With some parts of the story I´m not happy. Most of them were in the second half. The tragic fall at Skyfall was too much and too sad. - Primarily I´m a Daniel Craig Fan, so I will watch his next Bond movies, come what may. I just hope there will be more space for emotions, love, smiles and hairs. My verdict "Casino Royale" is still the best Bond movie with Daniel Craig. I watched it many times and could watch it again right now. But not Skyfall, sorry.

My survival film guide

My childhood was full of rules and laws by fanatic religious men. They told me to obey everyone to survive... but all I knew was: "I just HAVE to SURVIVE!" There was no life which I could enjoy in my real world. My reality was like a strange movie without any logic or happy end. Therefore I preferred to hide myself amongst the movies. That was the best compromise I could make with god. He gave me a fertile imagination, I thanked him and worked with it. I had nothing against god. I´m totally against people who claim that they know god and are qualified to rule over other peoples life. These people came and went by, played their games... I was happy when they left me for some hours.

Like Harish Iyer I put much interest in movies. Not only in watching, also in living and breathing them. I always wished to be at another place. It was great experiencing the real world at least through the movies. Otherwise I was completely seperated from normal kids. I had no childhood. There were always these annoying hours of preaching everywhere. In school I was an outsider, beaten up daily for my parents beliefs... never told them. I was silent, what should I say? Nobody listened, anyway I had no character. I was a brainwashed slave who has to preach, pray and sell her soul. Only in my fantasy I had a VOICE.

 As a teenage girl in the middle of the 90s I loved "The Outsider", "Breakfastclub", "St.Elmos Fire", "Taxi Driver", "Stand by me", "Flatliners", "Big", "Con Air", "Reality Bites", "Flashback", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Into the sun", "Fearless", "Gilbert Grape", "The Wonder Years" Serial with Fred Savage and all movies with John Malkovich. He was my star. I identified myself so much with rebells, because I could never break out of my >holy jail<. From the outside I was a well-behaved, honest girl. But in my heart I had lots of questions. Life was just weird for me. Being alive just to obey others made no sense.

I started writing books at the age of 12. My stories were full of adventures, of crime and fights. I fought for a little piece of personality. But never realised, that I already had an own will. I was a master in ignoring my own wishes. As long as I had the movies I lived with a good compromise. While thinking of my past I see lots of movie sequences. I still own all videotapes where I recorded the movies, to watch them over and over again. Large number of these movies I know inside out... using their lines - at least in my head - to bear bad situations.

Another movie I loved a lot for its special mood and hidden message is "American Beauty". I identified myself so much with Wes Bentley and Chris Cooper, whom I adore. Also "Donnie Darko" is a great movie. I know I forgot the most movies, but few awesome movies were also: "Equilibrium", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "American Psycho", "Scarface", "Try Seventeen", "Shutter Island", "Monster", "Vanilla Sky", "Spun", "Crazy/Beautiful", "Vicky, Christina, Barcelona", "I am Sam", "Monkey Love", "The Town", "Bardiem Biutiful", "A little trip to heaven", "Brick", "Igby Goes down", "Inception", "Godfather I-III" and "Looper".

Since 2005 I watch indian movies and there it`s difficult to find special movies, which I gave 10/10 points. I really love many of them, but gave full marks just to very few, compared to the 400 I watched. My first movie which broke that record was "Khaash" (1987 Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia), then "Dil" (1990 Aamir, Madhuri) "Anniyan" (Tamil 2005, Vikram); "My brother... Nikhil" (2005 Sanjay Suri, Juhi); "Kannathil Muthamittal" (2002 Madhavan); "Madrasapattinam" (2010 Arya); "Pattiyal" (2006 Arya); "GOW I+II" (2012 Manoj, Nawaz); "The japanese wife" (2010 Rahul Bose) and "15 Park Avenue" (2005 Rahul Bose, Konkona).

Others with 9/10 are "I am", "Kurbaan", "Champion", "Tere Naam", "Kites", "Main Aisa Hi Hoon", "Khal Nayak", "Kanthaswamy" (tam), "Simhadri" (tel) and "Vaastav". There are many to watch in the future, I ordered all titles from Anurag Kashyap. He´s the MASTER. He has a brilliant taste in movies and whatever he and his crew is suggesting, I will watch and decide. A very passionate moviebuff is Haider Beig. I´m so happy by meeting him due to the "Gangs of Wasseypur" Screening in Hamburg with the man himself >Anurag Kashyap<. What he unites, will never be seperated, hehe. It was pure destiny and surely too much luck to deserve in one small lifetime. I´m happy and thankful forever. The journey just started.

My whole life I was inspired and powered by movies. It gave me oxygen to breath and a voice to remember within. Now I support young filmmaker, independent cinema and social groups with my whole heart. I never stood up and fought for my freedom. I was imprisoned for 21 endless years. Nobody has the right to decide over one another. KEEP FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND DREAMS. At least I started ten years ago and I am free. Trust your heart, follow your passion. One day it will all make sense. :-)

Anksuni

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