Ah, the eternal question ! What to watch, you know, filmwise ? I know which movies are on DVD, but I don’t know whether I’ll like them, hence end up seeing some real stinkers. I mean, the premise looks good, but whaddya know, the movie isn’t. So on my random movie-pick up sojourns, I recently got a good one.

“Sliding doors” which didn’t do too well at the box-office. Stars Gwyneth Paltrow, who etches out the role of Helen, who goes to work one day, gets sacked, and tries to make her way home by taking the subway. Nothing special here, except that from here onwards the movie takes a dual path, in the first case she misses the subway, and in the second she doesn’t. Her life takes different turns depending on the path, and the director runs both in parallel. Quite an interesting technique, and made for a nice, romantic drama (not a comedy really – although apparently marketed as such). Went well with the popcorn.

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