Movie Review: Little Zizou

Rating: 4.5/5
What a great movie to end the weekend with!
I only wish I’d watched it on Friday night instead of Sunday so that the warm fuzzy feelings after the movie would have lingered into Saturday and Sunday instead of having to compete with Monday Morning Blues.
I recommend it.
The papers have been saying this is a movie about the Parsis. It is very much so. But it is also a movie about everyday magic, the disappointments that form the cornerstone of our lives, the unexpected friends we make, unrequited love, enduring hope and lasting friendship. This is a movie about all our lives and how they collide with each other in our time.
Overall:
“And so it was one morning that the Russians marched into town” … thus begins Little Zizou’s story. Little Zizou is a young motherless boy who loves his brother, hates his father and worships soccer. He has two enduring questions...
Whether his mother saw him before she died…So that now that she is in heaven and is an angel …she is able to recognize him
When will Zenedine Zidane come to India?
His elder brother Arthaxerxes is an immensely talented high school dropout closet cartoonist – whose caricatures about his father and his feigned godliness and purity tirade and his secret blog denouncing the same make it hard for anyone to not love him. His love for a neighbor’s teenage daughter who uses him as a proxy so that she could meet her real boyfriend will resonate with worst in the best of us. Little Zizou's days revolve around skipping school and pretending to be sick so he can get affection from Boman’s wife and enjoy afternoons at a cyber café playing soccer on Xbox. While Arthaxerxes tinkers around in an old hospitals maternity ward turned into a makeshift lab trying to build a flight simulator with his nerdy friends.
But when their Father conceives of a Liberation Organization aimed at imbibing purity within the small loving Parsi community – the result shakes their world into turmoil. Thus begins a process of self discovery and self recovery that tugs at your heart strings.
Quotable Quotes: This movie is lovingly scattered with them and they appear in the most unexpected places guaranteeing a smile.
“Sometimes you’re the cockpit … and sometimes you are scrap metal”
“Its later than you think, enjoy life while you’re in the pink ...the years go by as quickly as you wink”
“I’ve never been anywhere”
Light moments: Lots
Need a box of tissues: Yes. Most Definitely.
Overall Theme:
Life isn’t perfect. It’s not meant to be like that. If it was, there would be nothing to look forward to. No journeys to be made and no lessons to be learned.
Love isn’t blind. But that doesn’t stop you from loving.
You are born alone and you die alone. But in between, you do find some people who make it a little less lonely. They are not always the family you are born with…but the family that you nurture and grow yourself.
If you look hard enough – there is magic everywhere and its never too hard to find a friend.
There is a big difference in being nice to someone because you feel bad for them versus because you love them. And you always know the difference and so do they.
Of everything that you can give to someone – Words, Promises, Hope, Faith .. give them love ..because Love endures.
Would I watch it again: Nope. Great one time watch !