History and I have always kept a safe distance from each, so as to maintain my good health.
Every history textbook I touched have caused severe allergy and catastrophic ulcers in me.
.…History classes have forcibly made the upper part of my eyelid contact the lower in matter of minute seconds.
….My Social Science teacher did not help either with her trick questions of “How many times were the two wars of Panipat fought.”
Pumped to the ear-lobes with such profound intelligentsia in History, I went to 10, 000 BC…
Oopsie……. I loved it!
I gaped, jaw-wide open at the woolly Mammoths and the Saber Tooth Tiger like a village bumpkin who sees sky-scrapers for the first time.
I flinched and squealed and yelled and fell off my chair in an unladylike manner at the action scenes!(Remind me to ask you how to fall of a chair in a ladylike manner.)
D’Leh is a prehistoric hunter from a tribe .which is prehistoric! Evelot is his lady-love who is captured by “bad, bad men”.
D’Leh runs to nook and cranny of the earth to bring his woman back home!
And the movie spins around with jantar-mantar spirits, wise old woman with vision, little tribal folk, big tribal folk, huge strange birds, my precious Prehistoric Mammoths and Sabre tooth Tiger before D’Leh lands in the land of “bad, bad men”
These “bad, bad men” appear to be in modern Egypt with big boats, fancy silk and excellent telescopes.
(I wish the director had also put a Ferrari there; it would have made me sooo happy!:)
Unfortunately I am not on the “bad bad men”’s side…. they are nasty towards the Mammoths(Grrrrrrrr.!)
Author’s note – “Bad bad” shall henceforth be substituted as BB in the interest of protecting her keyboard
The BB Men worship a talon-ed priest(clearly they hadn’t invented manicure then!) and follow all his BB commands.
The BB priest with unhygienic nails is dreading a prophecy, a prophecy which talks of a hunter bringing down the BB men and their civilization.
In case you haven’t guessed it yet! YES! The hunter is D’Leh…some drama/ some fight/ some more drama and some more fight.!
And so they lived happily ever after!
Footnote:-
Nobody is allowed to ask me logical questions!
Nobody is allowed to make sense to me!
Most important nobody is allowed to narrate history to me!
The movie cannot be watched in a small screen. None of the characters stick to your mind as much as the Mammoth and the Saber tooth Tiger. Also please leave your history textbook home before entering the movie hall!