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It is important for the film that nothing fatal happens to the kids, for instance.
When it does dwell on their suffering, it is only to raise broader questions about the conditions that create the suffering and our apathy towards this kind of livelihood we quietly look past.
Now watching the greatest Tamil film ever made.
Start of the prison chapter proper after the prologue.
Following a great 1st hour of an intimate portrayal of domestic life and aspirations, a fantastic 2nd hour shifting to completely different scenarios and character dynamics.
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Actually, this film more or less demands the viewer to go past the tragic events in the lives of the hero and his family. Its deeper rewards are elsewhere, I'd argue. But the stakes are made starkly higher by the dramatic events and the artifice of the fight against the villains.
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But what we still don't have: a culture of articulation wherein such straight-faced comparative analysis should not merely raise eyebrows or awkward silences but open up discussions where interlocutors even on the side of Tamil cinema don't frame things in an apologetic manner.
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I am generally positive (and has only got better in last decade!) about the world of movie buffs and the general cinephilia around us.
All the Charu Niveditas, Karundhels and Arun Mos have quietly receded. It's not anymore automatically cool to point to the outside world.
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I'd seriously like more of this! Individual people's reasons might differ here and there but overall we need to learn to talk about our filmmakers on their own merits.
I for one have long found Karthik Subbaraj more interesting than Quentin Tarantino!
Agree this loss of mojo needs to be studied, Aamir Khan's even more than Rajkumar Hirani's. The latter anyway had a pretty limited frame of reference as a filmmaker and even as a storyteller. (Not a diss.)
In both cases, I think it'd say more about the audiences than them!
The fall of Rajkumar Hirani & Aamir Khan needs to be studied. Hirani was once spoken about in the same breath as Rajamouli. Then Dunki happened. And now his next move is a 3 Idiots sequel nobody asked for. Feels more like a moneygrab than a genuine creative decision. I could be wrong.
Aamir went from Bollywood's most credible actor delivering hit after hit to struggling to break even.
Both need a reset, not a sequel to their greatest hit. Going back to 3 Idiots feels less like ambition & more like two people who have run out of new ideas.