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Papilio Buddha (2013)
Dalit Subject and Impossibility of Indian Reality
Dalit burden of being is shown as filmic reality in the least complex way. The slow and violent condescension of Western Ghats Dalits under Gandhian theo-political universality is excellently projected in film with victimized inhabitant subjects facing being as a total social excess, incapable of enjoying it's existence under that reality. This proves that the myth of Indian ontological completeness has an extimate ring filled by Dalit subject's unresolved subjectivity which will always subvert the existence of its ideological burden and symbolic core reminding of it's incompleteness. The film thematically portrays this Dalit pessimism against the backdrop of mother nature being static, cold, oblivious, and unresponsive to human subjectivities under distress which leaves very dark unsatisfactory and unresolved ending with directors intentional comic facet to it, inhabitants leaving the area conceding with the dictates of power hopelessly of a failed rebellion. But this ending shouldn't discourage any Dalit subject. Such hopelessness in fact is a Hope for new political and tactical prospects Dalit subject must imagine under its totalitarian existence. It is actually a cry longing for a free universal subject. Freed of its psycho-sexual and socio-ideological dimensions.
Hereditary (2018)
But you can't fool a cinephile.
Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, It Follows, It Comes at Night, and Get Out, were all unique to their philosophies and the context, Hereditary mounted with rest of them makes no sense. The movie must develop with characters and story bold enough to retain viewers to engage all the time. If you look at the husband who had no character development while the rest of members making potpourri of trying to make a potential character. The philosophy of Satanism was least unique after all, because of the over rotten use of the idea by all the characters just as cliché. How come the idea of a light ray as the spirit which is free to move from place to place only hurting family members? How come séance is learned so easily by Annie? You don't make the fun out of core idea "Spiritualism" by making it banal as a piece of cake. What were those letters? What does it signify to be a miniature artist? When Charlie observes pencil box the camera focuses but for a reason which is never connected to the rest of the movie. Half of the movie was trying to be deep but it slipped away because of the worst use of postmodern horror themes by making is more stylized and substanceless.
It surely borrows from slow burning horrors like It Follows and Rosemary 's Baby but out of reason and context. Obviously, it is important to bring a change in cinema and be revolutionary but in no way, it can be called revolutionary without a substance. Most postmodern horrors are much better and full of explanatory substance. After all, it was bittersweet to watch this movie propagandized as the revolutionary cinema. The whole movie was more of a marketing gimmick to rape our senses by making something sensational.
Do Women Have a Higher Sex Drive? (2018)
Capitalism driven feminism has nothing good to offer to this world.
I am a feminist too, but these women in the documentary have obliquely directed view about the world. The fight should be about equality not about who gets the power and who submits to who.When she uttered the 80 to 20 principle and mate selection on the basis of hierarchy, that was where I found the serious mistake most feminist make about the feminism. Moreover she even claimed women were more advantageous when polygamy existed because they could ditch the poor ones. This documentary was full of facts but they had the sense to misguide and incline the plot in their favour without understanding the consequences. Most facts were absolutely right like,the witches being most important among women, genderfluid human nature and urge to be cathartic about the the oppression from patriarchy.
Overall for me this documentary looks more like a corporate feminism rather than feminism of men, women, rich ,and poor
The Craft (1996)
People don't get to see these kinds beautiful movies nowadays.
The Craft presents the whole new set possibilities that most of new thriller filmmakers lack, it is necessary to say that The Craft was well crafted to give viewers the dose of dopamine loop-wise throughout the end.Not without the flaws but this movie should become one of the greatest cult movies ever made.
The Craft(1996) Well done !!!!!!