the blue banana

 A gripping crime thriller that doesn't lag and manages to maintain its pace throughout - that's "The Invisible Guest" or   " Contratiempo" , as it was originally named in Spanish , for you. The story and screenplay are quite slick,enough to inspire  remakes in Italian , Hindi and Telugu.The film comes highly recommended with a 8.1 /10 rating on IMDb. Adrian Doria , a successful businessman , is out on bail for the murder of his lover Laura in a rural hotel  Adrian`s lawyer Felix  hires a very prestigious defense attorney, Virginia Goodman ,  to fight his case. Virginia turns up at Adrian`s door one morning and informs him that the prosecutor has found a witness who will testify soon , and so Adrian has to tell his story completely and quickly.Thus , the story begins. First ...why was Adrian framed for the murder of Laura. According to Adrian , he and his lover Laura had been blackmailed into coming to the hotel with  100,000 Euros. But he is knoc...

Sometimes it is quite overwhelming when you realize how one isolated  incident could  kick start a chain of events that would eventually engulf the whole world in a diabolical embrace.When Gavrilo Princip , a Bosnian Serb ,fired upon  Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the heir presumptive of the vast Austro Hungarian empire on the 28th of June 1914 ,little did he know that he would be responsible for the greatest war on Earth - the World War I. The movie ,which is in German , begins with the first attempt on the life of the  Archduke - a botched bomb attack on the imperial convoy.Leo Pfeffer , a Hungarian Jew by ethnicity , is put in charge of the investigation. While  interrogating the bomb attack suspect , news arrives that the Archduke has been assassinated in a second attack - by the bullet from Princip`s gun. When Pfeffer starts his investigation.,there are many loose ends that don`t fit - the convoy proceeding in spite of the attack , the driver of the first car ...

                                                       This is a beautiful movie which blends two distinct strains  - a wildlife conservationist's work with Orcas ( or Killer whales as they are commonly referred to ) and  a mother`s desperate bid to provide relief to her autistic child which makes her travel thousands of miles from Spain to Argentina . Set against the backdrop of the  coastline of the vast Patagonian desert, the movie has got some breathtaking visuals which are very  different from the ones we are commonly accustomed to. The film  first introduces us to Beto , the protagonist of the movie , who is a Orca watcher living in a cabin in a remote isolated location .He is a loner and is totally dedicated to the Orcas and has developed a special relationship with them. He often goes into the sea to play and swim wi...