Ash The Watcher

   VIRUS-1980 DIRECTOR- KINJI FUKUSAKU  WHAT IS IT ABOUT? A Virus designed with the intent of being a Bioweapon accidentally leaks killing off almost the entire world Human population, with the only survivors being the Scientists working in the cold of Antarctica. And as they try to find a cure, another unexpected threat threatens to derail them. ------------------------------------------------------- S tarting off in 1983, the movie takes us straight to the aftermath of what the world has been through in 1982, the year the virus was unleashed as we follow a submarine on an expedition to Japan witnessing the entire population wiped out a fate shared by the rest of the world barring the Scientists working in Antarctica. And then in a flashback, we see the events leading up to it. The ambitions of Virus are staggering. Reportedly the costliest Japanese production of its time, the story incorporates a global worldview to the spread of the Virus, and although Japan is fe...

 THE CONFORMIST-1970  DIRECTOR-  Bernardo Bertolucci CAST-  Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin,  Pierre Clementi, Dominique Sanda   THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)- A conformist is one who conforms to the accepted behaviour by following the accepted life being followed by everyone around him sacrificing his own identity in the process. Adapted from Alberto Moravia’s novel, the story follows Marcello Clerici working for the fascist government sent to assassinate his former college professor now a political dissident who has fled Italy. We starts with Clerici in being driven by a man in pursuit of the professor and then non-linearly recounts Clerici’s life to this point, fleshing him out as we cut back into the present at times. Though initially, Conformist might feel like a thriller, but it’s more of a character study. Will Clerici assassinate the professor or not, is not the core and the story is more interested in...