How far will you go to chase your
passion? We are often asked this question maybe over a drink or in an interview
or when you have to make a real tough choice? Mostly rational choices win – better money
over job satisfaction (who has defined it anyway), New York over Mumbai maybe…
ILD is a week in a life of a
budding folk rock singer on a snowy New York, who has no money and is managing
by sleeping in couches of family n friends; his first album is not selling
& reaches a point where he is planning to join back merchant marine union.
You can read all about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Llewyn_Davis
& see the official trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFphYRyH7wc
. It picked up the Grand Prix at 2013
Cannes & was nominated for quite a few awards including 2 Oscar.
What I loved most was the lovely
background score. It took me back to one of my favorite genre of folk rock, the
days of Bob Dylan / Joan Baez. When singers thought songs can bring change in
society & when lyrics were poetry, when people valued the journey more than
the billboard charts, when a performance was sharing of ideas & passion.
Although it did not get nominated
for screenplay, I loved the hue & tinge of the film which defined in a kind
of era which has gone by. The movie is loosely based on Dave Van Rock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk .
What I found nice was if one looks at the instrument listed on the panel – it says
guitar & it says it all.
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