For the first time in past one and half years, i got to watch television like a freak. And news channels are not my favourite this time, for earlier watching tele meant hopping between cnn, bbc, cnbc, ddnews and all that. So, now i am believing that indeed all news and no entertainment channels made of me a dull person. Here i have a new favourite channel, UTV world movies ( star movies, HBO, Zee Studio et. al. are second in the favourite list). And i watched this fine Italian movie 'Along the Ridge' directed by Kim Rossi Stuart, who has acted in the movie as well.
Since i have not been an avid movie watcher therefore- probably- i found the plot of this movie very new and interesting. It is about a father (Kim Rossi Stuart) who tries hardest to keep his family get going, which consists of a son -who is an eleven years old man- and a 13 years old chirping daughter. The mother here leaves the husband and children, for a wealthier man- this is the point which makes this movie one of it's kind for me. The mother does come back for a while, but- trying to quote the father in this movie- like a cat who purrs just to get a kind attention and once the purpose is served, leaves everyone again.
'Along the Ridge', title gives a connotation about the condition that characters are in, in this movie. The single father succeeds in keeping the family bonded even though there are multiple forces testing the limits of his patience, perseverance and his ability to cope up with frustrations at personal and professional front. There are instances when we feel that the father is going to give up. But no, there he is smiling, cracking jokes, going on walk with his children. The daughter, who always pulls her serious brother's legs, soon comes in terms with the reality that Happiness was just a guest for a few days in the disguise of her mother cuddling and caressing her.
As already mentioned, there is one more man in the movie 'Tommi', the eleven years old son who has this secret fun place on his building top where to reach, it takes him to walk along the boundary. And it scares us every time he walks and we agree with his friend's advise (his neighbour- who does not dare to walk along the ridge of the building top) that it can be dangerous. When mother comes back Tommi senses the possibility of her leaving the family again, which does happen. But, he does not fall to his emotions here. When he goes for swimming competition (his father wants him to be a swimmer) he fails to keep up with his father's expectation, but he does not fall here as well. Yet again, when he is going to be happiest with his friend in a trip, his father does not give him permission and accuses him for being indifferent to the difficulties in their life. But, Tommi keeps himself from falling. At last he holds himself in his firmest when it seems he is closest to falling along the ridge of the mansion built by a son when his mother leaves a gift for him in school with a note of lie, that she could not come for some reason.
There are few heart warming scenes (because most of them are about father losing his temper and bursting into a spill of reprimands- quite consequential to what he is going through) and my favourite is the one, where the son hugs his father and father cuddles his son. Here role gets reversed. The son is father and vice versa.
Loved the movie, and would wish others would like it too.
Since i have not been an avid movie watcher therefore- probably- i found the plot of this movie very new and interesting. It is about a father (Kim Rossi Stuart) who tries hardest to keep his family get going, which consists of a son -who is an eleven years old man- and a 13 years old chirping daughter. The mother here leaves the husband and children, for a wealthier man- this is the point which makes this movie one of it's kind for me. The mother does come back for a while, but- trying to quote the father in this movie- like a cat who purrs just to get a kind attention and once the purpose is served, leaves everyone again.
'Along the Ridge', title gives a connotation about the condition that characters are in, in this movie. The single father succeeds in keeping the family bonded even though there are multiple forces testing the limits of his patience, perseverance and his ability to cope up with frustrations at personal and professional front. There are instances when we feel that the father is going to give up. But no, there he is smiling, cracking jokes, going on walk with his children. The daughter, who always pulls her serious brother's legs, soon comes in terms with the reality that Happiness was just a guest for a few days in the disguise of her mother cuddling and caressing her.
As already mentioned, there is one more man in the movie 'Tommi', the eleven years old son who has this secret fun place on his building top where to reach, it takes him to walk along the boundary. And it scares us every time he walks and we agree with his friend's advise (his neighbour- who does not dare to walk along the ridge of the building top) that it can be dangerous. When mother comes back Tommi senses the possibility of her leaving the family again, which does happen. But, he does not fall to his emotions here. When he goes for swimming competition (his father wants him to be a swimmer) he fails to keep up with his father's expectation, but he does not fall here as well. Yet again, when he is going to be happiest with his friend in a trip, his father does not give him permission and accuses him for being indifferent to the difficulties in their life. But, Tommi keeps himself from falling. At last he holds himself in his firmest when it seems he is closest to falling along the ridge of the mansion built by a son when his mother leaves a gift for him in school with a note of lie, that she could not come for some reason.
There are few heart warming scenes (because most of them are about father losing his temper and bursting into a spill of reprimands- quite consequential to what he is going through) and my favourite is the one, where the son hugs his father and father cuddles his son. Here role gets reversed. The son is father and vice versa.
Loved the movie, and would wish others would like it too.
