Sorry you got a bit tired of it, Greg. Can well understand how.
However, I must say that the second half of the movie is much better than the first, where the unrelenting grimness is comically unsubtle.
The fact that this movie accurately reflects the lives of millions of South Asians in the last century or so is the only thing that stops it working as comedy. I still laughed out loud when the mother-in-law died.
But hey. Watch it at home with some friends, get up and make some tea now and then. It does feel a bit like the middle hour of Gone With The Wind. But there is far more of everything there is to like about it in the second half; and less to none of all there is to dislike.
It is a far more rewarding experience than Gangs of New York, for instance.
However, I must say that the second half of the movie is much better than the first, where the unrelenting grimness is comically unsubtle.
The fact that this movie accurately reflects the lives of millions of South Asians in the last century or so is the only thing that stops it working as comedy. I still laughed out loud when the mother-in-law died.
But hey. Watch it at home with some friends, get up and make some tea now and then. It does feel a bit like the middle hour of Gone With The Wind. But there is far more of everything there is to like about it in the second half; and less to none of all there is to dislike.
It is a far more rewarding experience than Gangs of New York, for instance.