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Doraibu mai kâ (2021)
Linking with Mahabharat
In Mahabharat, Krishna advised Arjuna to drive his car (body) in any situation of life. The picture of Arjuna and Krishna in Kurukshetra signifies our body and soul, where Arjuna and his chariot is the materialistic body with its sentient soul, and Krishna, the Paramatman, is the driver of Arjuna's chariot, who is motivating Arjuna to do his responsibilities no matter what the outcome or future is.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi attributed this film's story to Haruki Murakami, the great story writer. Maybe there is no relationship between Mahabharat's scenario and the Japanese director's film. Even I am not sure whether Murakami is aware of Mahabharat or not, but the characters' motives eventually just got parallel with the ancient Indian epic.
Loved this creation!
C'mon C'mon (2021)
What is normal?
"What is normal?"
How will you feel when a little kid asks you, "what is normal?" In this film, the director made a clear attempt of confronting us to this question again and again in different ways. When little Jesse asked this question to his uncle, he had nothing to answer. I think nobody can get the answer to this. There's nothing out there that we can say is normal.
This story has two protagonists with a huge age contrast, which makes it more intense to watch. The kid character, Jesse, made a vivid impact with his ways of acting and making a perfect portray of things as much awkward (what does awkward means actually?) as possible. Joaquin Phoenix played the role of his uncle. He was a radio journalist and had gone through an adventurous journey of looking after his nephew for a few days. These days changed his views about life as well. Making everything mixed up and getting involved in the life of his nephew, he himself also became a kid inside.
Recording the sounds of ocean, train, traffic, all those anomalous things done by little Jesse made him adorable to me. His uncle does the job of interviewing little kids and asking them what they think about their future. It's overall a distinct approach to know how the next generation thinks about the world. Jesse used that recording machine to record the sounds of this busy world. Without being rhetoric, he just tried to be himself.
A monotonous black and white filter was used throughout the film because the director wanted not to distract us with the excitement of the cities they travel to, rather focus on the personal interactions of the characters, and at that point, he became succeeded.
There were several shots where the characters read different books. One book that attracted me the most was Star Child by Claire A. Nivola. In that book, the author tried to imagine life on our earth from an outer planet. It reminded me of another juvenile literature masterpiece 'The Little Prince' by Saint-Exupéry, which was also written with such artful thought.
So it's time to look for another good film to watch or a book to read.
Sokoote Rana (2015)
Amusement of the eye
That was absolutely clean and lucid. An hour and a half spent well. A must watch film for the bird lovers.