Finding Nemo

Year: 2010

Genre: Comedy and Animation

Direction:

Andrew Stanton

Voice: Albert Brooks (Marlin), Ellen DeGeneres (Dory), and Alexander Gould (Nemo)

Rating: Excellent

Phew, I wonder how I could miss it all these years! Such a lovely movie. I loved it from shot 1 to the very last shot. An extremely awesome and thrilling movie. What if it didn't have any humans to take the movie forward. Nemo, Dory, and Marlin were superb. It would be mean if I miss out any of the characters. All were cute and lovely.

Finding Nemo (2003) is the story of a single parent-a clown fish, Marlin, who raises his only son with extreme care and love, only to be taken away by an underwater diver-dentist to Sydney right in front of Marlin. This is how the movie begins. The rest of the movie shows how Marlin, who as Nemo says, is afraid to come out in the ocean from the coral reefs, swims across the ocean, miles and miles, to Sydney, to rescue his son. The journey is interesting as Dory joins (Psss, Dory is a sweetie with ahem, ahem, short-term memory loss - pretty interesting?). I loved the moments when Dory keeps referring to Nemo by names like Bingo, Fabio, and the like. I am highly excited as I write each word about the movie.

The animation is excellent. The fine details, vibrant colours, and the ease with which the characters move as in real life, is amazing. The voice overs also are commendable. I loved the attention given to each sound in the movie. To point out, each time Nemo kept fluttering his 'lucky fin', I could hear the fluttering. I mean, isn't that amazing? Well yes, I am a lot excited having watched this movie.

The movie went on to receive the Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature.

I loved the theme of the movie. To me, it was such a striking plot. It is easy for us to imagine and feel empathy towards a human losing his child and going all over the places, knocking doors in search of the kid. But what about a fish? Just imagine, swimming miles and miles underwater, to find his lost kid. I think it is a brilliant plot and was really touching as well. I really loved the way how emotions were portrayed by each of the characters.

And finally, I chose the poster for this post, so that it had almost all the characters in the movie. But I could not find Nemo in it. Can you find?

Networking Socially

Social Networking is probably a buzz word now. I was not very fond on the online Social Networking sites just because of the pain of updating and keeping track of it. But around 5 years ago, when Orkut was the platform and all my friends asked me if I had an Orkut account, I finally decided I must have one. And one fine day, I created an account for me in Orkut. For the intial few months, activities in it were normal - logging in occassionally, finding friends, uploading photos, and scrapping. But slowly with time, the frequency and activities lessened. I used to log in only when I used to receive friend requests or some scraps I had to reply to.

Meanwhile Facebook gained a LOT of popularity. Now Orkut was not to be heard only. All of them were on FB. Even I had an account, but one which was never accessed. Apart for my name, there was nothing on my FB profile. It had been so for years now. Finally, it has come to a situation that people look down on you when you say that you don't access FB. They treat me like some person who do not know about Social Networking at all. I really didn't care about it. But now, even I have an updated profile on FB. Reason - Well I just thought, why should I be the only one left out. But let me see how long I am going to keep track of my networking on FB.