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The Poet (2007)
Bad movie, don't watch
Everything about this movie is bad. I rented it on DVD because I like WWII movies, and the poster suggested something like "Schindler's List" with a love angle ...
But it just doesn't fly. The "Poet" is actually a young German soldier who spends most of the film moping and feeling sorry for himself. Herein consists, far as I can tell, his "poetic demeanor". We are also supposed to sympathize with his troubled conscience over his part in the war. But this is hard, as he is (wait for it!) a spy infiltrating the countryside to report on partisan movements and pave the way for the German invasion of first Poland, then Russia.
When the Jewish couple escapes the massacre of their village, their midwife suggests they get a job on - of all places - a large German base ready for the invasion of Russia. While such employment is obviously treason on the part of Polish civilians and would be severely punished after the war, we are also asked to believe that German soldiers would knowingly accept Jewish non-prisoners as employees while the SS was killing all over the countryside.
We are supposed to be awed by the female lead's love for her "poet", yet she prostitutes herself to German officers at the camp as if a matter of course. Which it would hardly have been for a Jewish village girl in 1941.
The cutting is awful, and almost every scene is theatrically conceited and wholly unbelievable. There's really nothing to like about this movie - avoid at all costs.
Maharaja (1998)
Nice adventure film
You shouldn't expect too much sense of the story, nor too high production values.
This is an old-fashioned adventure movie with a story not to be taken too serious. The bad guys are really very bad and depraved, and the good guys are similarly very brave and noble.
However, if you watch the film with these things in mind, you won't be disappointed. It's simply great fun, and has some good comic relief side stories too.
The erotic content is rather risqué by Bollywood standards, in addition to the standard dancing with wet clothes we also get some overt kissing.