REVISITING CLASSICS-1
One of the things that the lock down did offer to me was revisiting classics across genres, language and cinema of the world too. This might be an opportune time to write piece by piece. I may have watched these classics at least 10-12 times earlier and every time one gets to see it; there is a new way to look at the movie. We start the week with a classic Spielberg; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (SPR). Released in 1998, to me it has to be one of the best war films. There are many war films that may come close and some may even dispute the claim that there is a Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now or Platoon or Deer Hunter or Pan's Labyrinth which could be ranked better. But to me SPR still has too be the definite movie on war and why so? The movie starts with the classic Normandy landing and then veers into a sequence where war becomes a backdrop. A dedicated set of 8 men will have to scourge through platoons to look for Private Ryan after orders comes right from the top about finding him c...