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  Kannur Squad 2023

  ★½ Rewatched 17 Nov 2023

  thread about the opening scene of kannur squad

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  Memories 2013

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Aug 2023 1

  Reorienting of individual self through Christianity: Its only symbolic how near the interval block sam alex reinstates faith (in god) and rhythmize himself to the natural order of things. From where the film intrigues the viewer to a suspenseful unveiling of a 'truth': as subjectified, christianized and bureaucratized detail. Jeethu Joseph is invested in showing the concentrated subjectivity of sam alex in relation to the world around it, but also constantly deconstructing it by throwing back at the viewer questions…

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  Hridayam 2022

  Watched 05 Feb 2022 7

  You don't get to see things as they are in Vineeth Sreenivasan films. Women, bike, parents, awkwardness, sadness, death, heartbreak, marriage, sex or passing of time. Everything's either overromanticized or overdramatized. Women are not like how we see them, parents are airbags, connections are perpetual, time is numb.

  Where even Karl Marx becomes a prop/ an object with the same value as a Calvin Klein underwear or Ray Ban glass.

  I don't intend to say cinema needs to be realistic;…

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  Sarpatta Parambarai 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2021 1

  Sarpatta Parambarai is not a proper genre movie, it's a 'compromised' work, but clearly it is those compromises that constitute the film and its vision of community; family, friendship and interpersonal relationships. It is that sense of canvas Ranjith sets in the opening twenty minutes as a prelude before the title. Most of the scenes are overwhelmingly crowded. If a normal composition weighs four people, in Sarpattai it would be ten. The boxing matches are framed as such the common…

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