Watched this movie after recording it on Airtel HD plus box.
This is a timeless movie. I had never watched it and then after watching it I realised what a movie maker Steven Spielberg actually is.
We can say that a movie like "Nightmare at Elm Street" or "Night of the Creeps" is an 80's movie. Even Jaws we can brand like a 70's movie. Or we can brand 'Back to the Future' as 80's movie though it is made for the future but this movie "Empire of The Sun" made in 1987 is a timeless movie.
What do I mean by timeless? Timeless means that we can watch the movie a decade later or two decades later or even a century later we will still feel the movie was made yesterday.
And what about Christian Bale. I mean he has acted when he was maybe 10 or 12 years old. It is like he has shrunk in size. I mean he has undergone severe bodily change in "The Machinist". But if only actors could do this reverse their age.
Brad Pitt acted in the "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" where the person goes from old to young.
But this is what Christian Bale looked actually was when he acted in the movie.
I have also seen Christian Bale long back in "American Psycho". But I was never aware of this movie "Empire of the Sun" even existed.
The story is also superb. It shows how the British lost their eminence slowly but surely and Americans gained in importance. How Japan's dream of nursing an empire was laid to dust by American bombers which dropped the nuke bomb.
This is a timeless movie and I knew Steven Spielberg from the movies of Schindler's List and ET but I had never ever heard of this movie. This movie is a must watch according to me.
Ben Stiller is also quite young in the movie. The movie has certain scenes which are remarkable. Like when Bale surrenders to Japanese troops saying "I surrender" they mock him. But in the end when he surrenders to Americans they shift him to the home for orphans. It can make you wonder where is more freedom? Under so called free countries or under occupying forces?
You are no threat to occupying forces if you give no threat and that is a situation of maximum freedom. If you give resistance then you face their wrath. But in the "free societies", you are no threat if you want to become a part of their societies. If you want to 'go astray' the you face the heat because you become a threat.
Thus the so called free societies are ideal places to become 'sheep like' and not 'lion like'.
This is a timeless movie. I had never watched it and then after watching it I realised what a movie maker Steven Spielberg actually is.
We can say that a movie like "Nightmare at Elm Street" or "Night of the Creeps" is an 80's movie. Even Jaws we can brand like a 70's movie. Or we can brand 'Back to the Future' as 80's movie though it is made for the future but this movie "Empire of The Sun" made in 1987 is a timeless movie.
What do I mean by timeless? Timeless means that we can watch the movie a decade later or two decades later or even a century later we will still feel the movie was made yesterday.
And what about Christian Bale. I mean he has acted when he was maybe 10 or 12 years old. It is like he has shrunk in size. I mean he has undergone severe bodily change in "The Machinist". But if only actors could do this reverse their age.
Brad Pitt acted in the "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" where the person goes from old to young.
But this is what Christian Bale looked actually was when he acted in the movie.
I have also seen Christian Bale long back in "American Psycho". But I was never aware of this movie "Empire of the Sun" even existed.
The story is also superb. It shows how the British lost their eminence slowly but surely and Americans gained in importance. How Japan's dream of nursing an empire was laid to dust by American bombers which dropped the nuke bomb.
This is a timeless movie and I knew Steven Spielberg from the movies of Schindler's List and ET but I had never ever heard of this movie. This movie is a must watch according to me.
Ben Stiller is also quite young in the movie. The movie has certain scenes which are remarkable. Like when Bale surrenders to Japanese troops saying "I surrender" they mock him. But in the end when he surrenders to Americans they shift him to the home for orphans. It can make you wonder where is more freedom? Under so called free countries or under occupying forces?
You are no threat to occupying forces if you give no threat and that is a situation of maximum freedom. If you give resistance then you face their wrath. But in the "free societies", you are no threat if you want to become a part of their societies. If you want to 'go astray' the you face the heat because you become a threat.
Thus the so called free societies are ideal places to become 'sheep like' and not 'lion like'.
