Rating 5.00/5.00
where 5 is a film I thought of while watching this
I watched two movies this weekend.
The first one was Noah Baumbach's Margot at the wedding (2007) which was insightful, funny in parts and as expected from Baumbach - described a dysfunctional family's love and hate yo-yo. Good but not really something I want to write about - Baumbach made the Squid and the Whale and worked with Wes Anderson on Fantastic Mr. Fox so I expect a lot more from him and it was a bit of a let down.
The second film - Four Lions - stunned me - infact I kept staring at the screen long after it went blank! The film was outrageously funny - a brilliant mix of British dryness and Indian/Pakistani slapstick. 5 people, 1 crow and 1 sheep get blown to bits (also some other folks get shot and blown to bits too but that's just the story) - do the makers of the film expect you to shed a tear or "feel" for the misguided jihadis? No. They want to you to laugh and maybe think a bit. Isn't that wonderful?
Now to the thinking part - the film makes your jaded mind take a fresh look at the news! It has a real story to tell with a message to boot - but it never gets preachy or pedantic - it enlightens because it draws a very plausible scenario which you always knew could happen but chose to ignore. Nowadays, it is difficult to come across a film (dealing with a sensitive topic) which doesn't sound like somebody's propoganda - this film does that well.
A must watch brother!! :-)
Imdb link here
Totally.
ReplyDeleteI too kept thinking although there was nothing to think.
will surely try if I find it here. Or else, it goes in my list of not-to-miss.
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