Dev Patel’s Monkey Man is a visceral action thriller that blends Hindu parables with heavy political commentary on India’s class system and rising authoritarianism. The film follows Kid, a hardened underdog shaped by systemic oppression, as he seeks vengeance against a corrupt elite that thrives on exploitation. Inspired by the Hindu deity Hanuman, Kid’s journey mirrors the fight of India’s marginalised against institutional power. Through brutal, intimate action sequences, Patel critiques caste oppression, political corruption, and the weaponisation of faith.…
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We Live in Time 2024
I am fan no. 1 of a sad romance movie, and it was doing so well but it just ended out of nowhere. It felt like an assignment where they wrote too many words and had to write a 100 word synopsis of the last 2000 words so it would be within the limit, it literally ruined the movie
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Aftersun 2022
I have never felt so intensely understood or seen by a film. The hazy childhood memories juxtaposed by the complicated adult, self actualising thoughts. The meaning of the film was epitomised by the small moments so rooted in truism and transparency. It felt so big in its smallness and the film is filled with moments that detail this emotion. Everything was left so unsaid between the father and daughter, she was frustrated with the youth that debilitated her from understanding…
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Her 2013
I set to watch this movie for the infatuation I had with the fact it was a personal response to Sophia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’ following the pair’s divorce, and I think for this reason, for me this film was emotionally deeper than a dystopian movie concerned with AI. Jonze’s interpretation and more importantly, his expression of processing and self actualising emotion through his divorce in this film is artistically genius. I was perplexed by the storytelling & dichotomy’s between the…
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