Random Bits

Tonight I watched the movie “Vantage Point“. The movie is on a terrorist attempt to assassinate the president of U.S.A. during a global peace summit. This movie is kind of unique as it is shown as a sequence of events as seen by 8 different characters, which collectively solves the conspiracy. Its a good movie but kind of gets boring with same events being played over and over again. It is like sampling a random process over multiple runs. All those boring repetitions could have been avoided by Poisson-like sampling of the events ;-).

Spoiler Warning (hmm.. not really)

Having heard very good reviews from many of my friends, today I watched this movie and it was quite an entertainer.  Nothing new in the plot  - it is just one of the many movies made on the lines of “Love is great but Sacrifice is immortal”. But it was well packaged with some nice songs, beautiful picturisation  and good actors. Predominantly shot in Coorg - a picturesque district of Karnataka, at the time of Monsoons, the movie showcases some wonderful scenes. In particular the shots at the edge of Jog Falls, in its full flow, are breathtaking. The movie also has some comedy and lots of romance to offer and is a family entertainer. With the recent dearth of good Kannada movies this really stands out and is worth a watch.