I am still trying to recover from the strange experience of watching two bad movies on the flight back.
First, I watched 'The Wolf of Wall Street', which I had missed when it was first released. To my surprise and the rather apparent horror of the senior gentleman sitting next to me, the airline had the uncensored version on board. The foul language was bad enough, but the nudity was really crass. One could be charitable and say the producers were trying to depict in full reality the lives of Wall Street's 'Big Swinging D***s' during their successful years. At least the movie had a happy ending with the protagonist going to jail.
The other movie was bizarre. The Beach is about a young American tourist who goes to Thailand and hears about a secret beach on a remote island with an unlimited supply of dope and a perfect hippy life. This is supposedly only an urban legend, until a crazy guy in the neighboring room at his flea-bag hotel hands him a map before committing suicide. The protagonist and two others make it to the secret community and then things get really weird. There is a great white shark in the lake on the island. The shark attacks a couple of the community members who are moved out of the commune and left to die as the community will not allow doctors in and they find it too painful to watch the injured suffer.
Either I have missed some metaphor or simile completely, or Leonardo Di Caprio might want to read the script carefully before he signs his next movie.
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I'd watched this movie called Flight on one of my London-Mumbai trips. It's a movie where Denzel Washington is a commercial pilot who snorts stuff, doesn't sleep, and does a whole lot of other shit on nights before he's scheduled to fly. And then one of his flights crashes. Fascinating movie. But more fascinating was this notification at the beginning of the movie (paraphrased) - "This movie might depict graphic violence, death and loss of flight control. If all of this causes you flight anxiety, please do not watch this movie."
Why on earth would they put such a movie in a flight movie menu!? What if someone discovered while watching the movie that they're susceptible to flight anxiety? :D
--Mohit
Did someone named Mohit so find out? :-)
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