O(h)' Russel!!!

O(h)’ Russel!

What is your definition of a perfect ‘feel good’ movie? I know, if we type in Google, it may offer us best of the best movies spanning from ‘Forrest Gump’ to ‘It’s a wonderful life’ or from ‘Amelie’ to ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’. You must have seen them all. But did you ever try and consolidate all these feelings in one qualified name? Well I have. And for me it is – David O’ Russel.

Do you remember how Mel Colpin’s journey to find his biological parents turned into a complete disaster and still we loved to flirt with it? Remember how people in small towns are so helpful [read jobless] to join Mel in the adventure and add up to nothing but more confusions?

Remember Raymond Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey? Didn’t we love the portrayal of how his priorities shifted in the influence of love? How the whole universe not only reminds him about his foremost responsibility, but also makes sure he doesn’t escape from it? If those are not ‘feel good’ then what is it? And the cherries on the top were the small scenes of brushing the neighbour’s canine or kissing the lady with a mouth full of chewing gums. I still do a ROTFL watching them.

From- making a comedy out of a gold heist by three kings in an Iraq war backdrop [against of course Saddam J ], or creating a love out of an unrealistic accident [a nail inside Alice head?- Oh! come on!] to spying on somebody’s weird ‘’existential’’ issues [Huckabees!]- David proved himself again and again that he has varieties to serve to his audiences and has enough ‘feel good’ substances to satisfy their appetite.

p.s.- Jason Schwartzman’s straight face can treat itself as just an item in the whole buffet J

How do you find ‘JOY’ in a depressed, socially awkward dysfunctional family only through your ideas and faith in yourself? – Joy is a perfect stalwart for that. The idea of making everything work is overrated. It is the newly found intention where you need to blend every wrong possibles and find a relatively ‘less wrong’ one for yourself and for the others who matter. And that’s how we also ended up loving Irving more in their ‘Hustle’ in America than Richie who belonged to the ‘so called’ positive side of the world.

Yes, you guessed it right. I of course did not forget the two ‘Oscar’ mentions, rather kept it at the end. There is nothing exceptional to talk about here which nobody told us before. There’s always a feel good factor about any story of a winner [read Fighter] and if it is a biographical sports drama resulting into couple of academy awards, there’s nothing like it. But the credit goes to the efforts and foresight behind- how you pick the right story and mould the ever challenging struggle into an inspiring journey of trust, faith and blood [read brotherhood].

David’s magical portray of Tiffany also has won Jennifer the academy award- there is no surprise. The ‘silver linings’ of the ‘playbook’ qualifies for the most romantic ‘feel good’ movies I have ever seen and it has got all the right mix of ingredients, I have ever looked for in a movie- starting from the psychological polarization to ‘love-hate relationship’ from the ‘dysfunctional family’ to ‘making the ‘EX’ jealous’- everything was well cooked with a little bit of garnishing with ‘the bet’ and the ‘dance moves’ J

Russel’s magic made us love Sydney, Joy, Rosalyn, Alice, Tiffany, Nancy, Tina and all the other women out there and embrace their virtue and vice, and find their desperation in their imperfections. Everytime Russel touches a plot, the least we can expect from a good movie, is always met –sometimes in the form of a smile, sometimes a memory or sometimes a peaceful, dream-free good-night sleep. Haven’t seen them yet?