The Danish Girl - [ Biography ] - (4/5)

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The Danish Girl - Inner Discovery

The Danish Girl is a biographical drama based on fictional novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and loosely inspired by lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegner. The movie was setup in mid-1920s of Copenhagen where a painter-artiste couple Einer Wegner (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegner (Alicia Vikander) lives their happily married and social life. Gerda who is a portrait painter, one day while she was working and her model were late so she asks Einer to pose as a girl for her new painting. While posing as a girl Einer rediscover a feminine inside him and wanted to do experiment the same by dressing as woman. Gerda takes this as sportingly and thought it’s just a game they are playing for fun however Einer feels he is more comfortable as his female form “Lilly” which makes him feel complete. Gerda tries to help Einer through doctor and fails however Einer starts believing himself as more of Lilly and goes through psychological turmoil where he even gives up painting. Gerda’s portrait of Lilly wins her accolades and she moves to Paris with Einer for her painting and also; so that she can help him with his gender confusion.  In the Paris Einer again reignite Lilly within him and thinks he is trapped in wrong body which compels him to go through sex change operation.

The story is very strong with perfect direction from Tom Hooper and flawless performance by Eddie & Alicia as painter couple. Eddie is so convincing in his role and depicts the pain of inner conflicts he goes through as Einer & Lilly and similarly Alicia’s portray of her character is also commendable. It is one of great cinema and worth winning few Oscar awards. Go for it.

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Bridge Of Spies - [ Drama / True Event] - (4/5)

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Bridge Of Spies - Perfect Negotiator

Bridges of Spies is a historical drama-thriller setup during cold war directed by Steven Spielberg. In 1957 at Brooklyn Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) gets arrested by FBI while he receives secret message from a bench. Rudolf is a Russian Spy during the Cold War is setup for trial in America Justice System. To give him fair trial FBI appoints James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) who specialised in insurance settlement as his lawyer. Donovan was expected to take the case as formality and bring Abel to Death Sentence however he takes his job seriously and argues Rudolf can’t be tried for sedition. Donovan convinces the judge with logic of not to give him death sentence and further appeals to Supreme Court which create lots of hatred against him among American people and attacks at his home. In the meantime a handful of selected Marines get trained by CIA to fly U-2 spy plane over Russia and one of American pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) gets arrested when his plane crashes in Russia. This incident compels USA to negotiate with Russia regarding release of Francis in exchange with Rudolf. CIA asks Donovan assistance to negotiate the inter change as private party as both country wanted this exchange to takes place through back door channel in Berlin. Donovan travels to Berlin and with his amazing negotiation skills he gets Francis as well as Frederic Pryor (Will Rogers) an arrested economic graduate, also released.


Well no one doubts the magic when Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks get together for any movie. The movie is really well made with great amount of detailing of this historical event. This is all in a whole Tom Hanks movies with his perfect performance as stubborn lawyer. This is certainly an Oscar material and may win some accolades.

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