A Single Man - A Single, Lonely Man

Hey All,

A Single Man - well, i heard about this movie during the Oscars this years as Colin Firth was nominated in the best actor male category for his performance in this movie. He was one of the favorites for winning Oscar too because he won BAFTA for the same. So, my expectation were high for this movie for the same reason and also cause it is also rated high at IMDB too.


Cast

Well, other than Collin Firth, Jullianne Moore and Ginnifer Goodwin, i knew nothing about the cast. So, there were chances of surprising good performances.

Collin Firth, i have always rated him as a good actor. I have seen a lot of his movies and was always amazed that he comfortable he was even when performing in a multistarer movies Love Actually, The Last Legion  or while playing the second lead in the movies like Bridget Jones or The Accidental Husband. This made me felt that he is one of those people how are absolutely sure of what he is doing.

I have only seen a couple of Jullianne Moore movies and had a feeling that she a matured actress and know how to play characters very well. I was expecting another good performance from her.

Other than the lead character of Collin Firth, there are couple of supporting roles and i liked the performances put in by both the supporting actors. Nicholas Hoult playing the student attracted to his professor, Collin Firth, did full justice to the character. He was so convincing through out the movie. Also, Jon Kortajarena who played a small character in the movie however, left a impression on me that he can come up to be good actor. 


Plot

Set in the 1960's, George Falconer, English Professor, whose has recently lost his partner, Jim, with whom he was in relationship since last 16 years. After loosing Jim to a car accident, George is trying to return to his normal life but he can't move on in his life and makes several attempt to kill himself but couldn't do it. He also didn't get the last chance to see Jim when Jim's family disallowed him to participate in the funeral ceremony. He decides to kill himself by the end of the day after doing something which he planned for. He fixes a dinner with his ex-girl friend / best friend. He goes on to spend the day as usual, however, he finds out that one of his student Kenny Potter, is coming close to him. He also meets Carlos, a Spanish guy who wants to be an actor and also a gigolo, who tries attract him.

How the days goes ? Will George fall kill himself or Will he fall in love with Kenny?

Good Points

The star cast lives up to the characters and everyone portrays their characters perfectly. You won't be disappointed after watching this one. Also, as the protagonist in the movie is homosexual or gay, so be ready to see a lots of naked men. The background score will also compliments the movie.

Bad Points

Well, i felt it and may be others too, the movie is slow and may give that draggin kind of feeling.


9/10 from me.

Orkut Buyukkokten

Orkut Buyukkokten's(35) Birthday Today, i know you have never heard of this name earlier, but you have seen his work that's why they say, that you should know about things you are using even though if it doesn't matter to you.

So who is Orkut Buyukkokten???? By a simple guess, you must have reconginzed that this guy is somewhere related to Orkut.com. Yea, you people are correct that he is related to Orkut.com but that won't be the perfect way of describing it. Orkut Buyukkokten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut. He completed his graduation from Bilkent University in Ankara, and then his  Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Buyukkokten  started working with Google in the year 2002 and is now one of their top employees.

About Orkut, i mean Orkut.com, which is the third largest social networking site online, is the most preferred social networking site in India. It took over India by the year 2004 and reached hundreds and thousands of Indian users in just 2 years. Still Orkut rocks in India. After India, Brazil is the second country according to users/population ratio. Then there is Pakistan and China. Though, China has one local social networking site in their native language but still Orkut has a big market share their.

One thing got me confused here was ...............even Orkut is so widely used in the two largest populated countries of the world......still it's number third.......May be wikipedia has not updated their information.(I was trying to pull off a joke, in case you didn't get it or didn't laught)

Any ways.....being a Orkut fan and Orkut user(How stupid of me to tell that.....isn't that obvious being an Indian with internet connection), this is my way if showing gratitude to this guy Orkut Buyukkokten,who certainly made changes to my life.

So girls, leave you Orkut Id here.....!!!!!! and i'll see you there.

Till then.........all of you ....

Keep \,,,/


 Ohhhhh.....Sorry....to the girls.....i left one important information.......Orkut Buyukkokten is gay .....So as you found it out.....all the rich and eligible men are either gay or married.....why don't you leave your Orkut profile ID........we can talk rite........

 Orkut Buyukkokten with is BF

Delhi’s First Gay Parade

Homosexuality doesn’t have the same status in India as in other countries of the world where there are proper laws defined like the gay marriages. Also homosexuality isn’t new to India. I have read about some prince was thrown out of the family just cause he admitted that he was a homosexual. There also been many incidents where homosexuals were not allowed to live normal lives. Have heard some incidents where the said to be “normal” people beat or kill the other “abnormal” people.

What is with this abnormal tag…..???? Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. People just don’t want to get near to a homosexual man or woman. Don’t know what they think of them. These are people just like us who can do work as well as we do. The problem with the “normal” people is that they aren’t open to homosexuals. They don’t want to talk to them, not even try to face them. Homosexuality is a truth of present time and please, stop believing that its some kind of disease. Same kind of discrimination was seen in cases of AIDS infected people when people didn’t want to get close to them.

Some of my not so serious experiences of what people think of homosexual, was when I found out what my friends think of homosexuals. I’m a movie freak, like to watch movies as many as I can that’s why I’m open to all kind of movies. So this one time me and my friends were discussing about the movies we have seen. When I told them about the movies that I have seen which contains or based on homosexuality like Gia, Brokeback mountain, their expression was like “why are you watching these kinda movies…..don’t you these are gay movies…..it not something for us” and all kind of stuff. It was a long discussion. At the end I realized that now a day men fear homosexuals cause homosexual have induced a fear into men what was earlier induced by men in to women.

The fear, I’ll tell you this with an incident my friend gone though. One day me and other 3 of my friend was on a highway trying our luck for a lift a home before the bus arrives. So after some time, on the highway, a super sexy car stops. A red colored skoda. We asked him if he can drop us 4 to some place but he said he will only take one of us. So one of us, who was in a hurry cause of he had some class to attend, took it. Then after a day when I met the my friend he told me that that guy was a gay and after sometime they left us at that point he started flirting and getting a bit physical with him but he retaliated and asked him to stop.

The person didn’t do anything then on but when he was telling me the whole incident I could see the fear in his eyes. Something normal to a girl. Now a days most of guys don’t go alone on the highway, try to avoid lonely lifts or get someone to go through them or take a bus when alone. My friend never got on the highway alone again.

This post is to support the fact that discrimination should be stopped. People shouldn’t be discriminated on their sexual orientation. I don’t have any personal experience to share related to this but still I know that it is practiced. Also as I’m not a professional in writing, so would like to apologize if somebody get hurt with this post.