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‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ – is a Joy
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Awesome photography fascinates us with injustices that
the poor endure as the rich and powerful, abuse the few that can get work.
This movie is part documentary with lots of talking heads.
However, the story is brave in its impressive moments on the screen.
The movie is based on Margaret Atwood’s book of essays. The
book probably is more exciting – however, transferring real life to the screen
really pops out the injustice, murder and the rights of migrant workers. Some
of the best haunting scenes are about the oil-spill victims. This is not happy
times in the old corral. The workers get treated as badly as the wild Horses
around the world. No one seems to give a crap. Well, I do – and they have a
right to live. After all – they are human beings. They shouldn’t have to go
through physical pain just because some cowboy or farmer decides that you’re
not working hard enough or fast enough.
Lets face it. There are people all over the world that are
starving, while the Rich bloat themselves with expensive wines and exotic foods
that is mostly picked by workers (Slaves).
But what do they care. The Gulf of Mexico still has not
recovered from Oil Spills. The Rich are digging everything out of the ground to
kill the planet. What we get now is not clear blue water – but water that looks
brownish.
This is not a movie to entertain – it is a wake-up film that
deserves to be seen. Find out what they are doing to “ordinary” people.
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RATING: THREE BOXES OF POPCORN!!!
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MOVIE FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE DARK
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL also known as (The Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful) is a fabulous British
Drama comedy-drama directed by John Madden and written by Ol Parker. The movie
is based on the 2004 novel, “These Foolish things" by Deborah Moggach.”
The seven retirees did not expect to find phones that are
out of order and that the building is dilapidated. Plus, the Indian food is not
what they are used to. And then there was the roach problem.
Yep – they were looking for a retirement place where they
could live cheaply in what they thought would be an exotic Hotel in India. The
advertisements said that the Hotel was newly restored. However, the environment
is much less exotic than they had hoped for. It’s not the luxury retirement
that the group from England pictured.
But don’t give up. The young man (owner) Dev Patel, is
trying his best to make his crumbling Hotel comfortable for them. He may have
lots of charm and big dreams – but little cash. Actually – the place is a total
wreck—but there is good news that is coming his way. On the other hand the
British visitors are just about to give up and go back home. But even at their
older age—there is still a gleam in the eyes of the elderly. Most of the women
are looking for new lovers. And a few find some – but one of the Ladies did not
fare so well. The guy she was attracted to turned out to be Gay. Like
everything in this saucy movie – it’s a hoot!
For some, the entire India Culture is not fitting into their
dreams. One is a High Court Judge (retired). Another is looking to find a rich
boyfriend, after she fails to pass herself off as Princess Margaret of
England’s Royal Family. She drops into a swank Indian Hotel and tells the Hotel
Manager that she is Princess Margaret. He says: - "That’s strange –
Princess Margaret died nine years ago."
Mopeds are big on the street of India. How they manage to
drive through the throngs of people on the streets I’ll never know. But
amazingly an elderly couple from England took a spin on a Moped. They met at
the “Marigold” and they were as happy as busy bees. So happy, that they even
passed youngsters on a Moped.
This movie is “funny and fresh” – it’s hard to find a film
with such sharp wit. I think you’ll find that “Marigold” is “Impossible to
resist!”
Now playing at Local Theatres
RATING: FOUR BOXES OF POPCORN!!!! (highest rating)
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(((Lee Hartgrave has contributed many articles to the San
Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook and he produced and hosted a long-running
Arts Segment on PBS KQED)))
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