Harish Palaniappan's

Firstly, I shouldn't be tagging this under movies, because it didn't feel anything like a movie, but watching real life happening up front.

Milla Jovovich, I think, has become my inspiration for kind of act in these two films that I believe no one else could have helped make.. Joan of Arc, and, Resident Evil.

Joan of Arc
The film(i have to call it though) was so much of real life. Having read about Joan of Arc's bravery and having known nothing else about why she fought and how she lived and all that, milla was every bit joan of arc for me and I was looking at what joanne(as she is called in the movie) was going to do next or what people are going to do to her next.

Milla was just marvelously living the life rather than acting the life of joanne. Yes.. I don't mind saying good about milla's act one more time because this credit is nothing for what she as joanne deserves.

The other interestingly shown character in the movie was none other than God... yes, "God himself" as if we all have seen God to be male... this is also another movie where god is male and has a very cracking, slow, loud, and thick low frequency voice. (Don't imagine what.. its the usual god voice you would know)

The God part of depiction is very free flowing, I can't believe a human director and a cast and crew of humans visualized how will God do this if he were to do it. The disappearance, the appearance, the questions, the small but on-target sentences, alongwith milla's expressions while listening to god, were all.. .. .should be felt, can't be expressed. (The only other movie where I liked God's depiction before is 'Bruce Almighty')

After the movie, I realized that Joan of Arc had died .. (not that I am expecting her to live even today)... my school history books never spoke about where she was born, what she fought for, that she claimed herself god's messenger, that she, at an age between 17 and 19 had become the heroine of France, and that the english (the villians always) executed her after successfully trying her for heresy(act of going against officials and teaching people to go against them too)...

A diplomatic eye-wash trial that is (as always with the english)..

And how did they execute her.. by burning her alive, to death, in front of people, while she cries the name of jesus loud, and with agony.

After this, I started loving wikipedia even more than before.. because I went there and read here about Joan of Arc.. wikipedia is obviously doing a favour to the world, allowing people to savour and share all this history.. sometimes with an eyewitness account of things. Happy we have it today, unhappy I only got to read my history book's lesson on joan of arc at school.

Joan of Arc the movie