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The Eagle Huntress (2016)
Visually stunning yet felt fabricated.
Wide Visuals of the Mongolian steppes and towering Altai mountains is breath-takingly beautiful in all the their colours, green, brown or white. The Nomadic lifestyle and modern western comforts are depicted truthfully, the embellishments starts when the main character is evidently coerced into aping pre teen clichés as per western standards such as nail polish and the fascination with fashion as this seems alien in the context and forced into the narrative. On one side its pushing the female empowerment and where as on the other is imprinting western female stereotypes. Nonetheless the father-daughter bond is portrayed beautifully as it evolves through the documentary. Somehow feels like its stuck in a uncanny valley between dramatized/acted performances and unobtrusive capturing of real moments. The ethnographic and patriarchal portrayal of the narrative are skewed romanticized version of the director, addition to the rumours of exploitation.
Bombairiya (2019)
Convoluted plots, noble message.
This movie has way too many sub plots running parallel to its own detriment. Better direction and editing could have made it an easy viewing. Disorienting at times it sends its audience on mystery search of their own to finds answers far far too long nonetheless the message at its core is noble and there are a few comical moments and some cliche plot twists.
characters turning in on themselves and changing shades as the movie progresses is well written and in my observation this unintentionally epitomizes that if redeemed with the right actions any one can be a hero, no matter how comical.
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Maternal Relationship cheaply distorted with a romantic tinge.
The writing and the directions veer far away from the facts of the actual relationship to the point of being ambiguously absurd alluding to a romantic tinge. Especially in the final scene that shows the Taj Mahal, a symbol of romantic devotion, it just detracts from the actual connection Victoria and Abdul shared that transcended barriers of class, creed, color, race to connect on a human level. Abdul helps the lonely and aching queen to be her true self without the formalities of a queen and empathizes with her on a human level to comfort her, entertain her curiosity adding a new lease of life in her twilight years.
It such a shame the writing and the direction tinge it with romantic tones for the sale ability factor when it could have been a precious equation between two people fighting their own battles to over come many societal barriers.
The acting by the leading characters is top notch, but queen's character is a bit more fleshed out to give the dame to show her true potential where as Abdul's character could have been more engaging to hook the audience to get to know why the queen was so found of him.Eddie Izzard does the a brilliant portrayal of the heir to the throne.
Worth a watch, well executed,if you care to cautiously overlook to the glaringly mismatch within.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Story of a Psychopath
The lead character Lou is a textbook case of a psychopath with no empathy or human emotion and goes to great lengths to do his job for the sake of getting paid a better bargain. He is able to do what he does best but that comes at tremendous cost to all those around him. It blurs the line between a good job too well that it becomes bad.