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Friday night film
22 January 2021 21:53https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loev
Worked a full day, cooked dinner, then T wanted to play more of his video game, so I picked a film to watch -- because I'm not at the condo, I'm not intoxicated. [I'm getting Time to Self here at the house tomorrow, though.]
I'm not sure I always need to grade films. If I graded this one, I'd grade it on a curve, because its budget was only $1 million, and due to intense anti-gay prejudice in India they couldn't even tell most of the film crew what it was about!
I'm surprised I stuck with this film because it starts in such a weird place ... WTF is going on ... who is this guy, where is he, what the hell is he doing, who is that other guy, there's no exposition, but after I stuck with it I began to feel it was one of the most honest films I've ever seen. No melodrama. No layering of plot lines.
There's a rather horrible scene toward the end that I'm not sure what to think about, which is probably the point. A character does something unforgivable by the standards of 2021 USA, yet he is still implicitly forgiven ... I haven't forgiven him myself, however ... but that doesn't mean the plot point was bad or wrong or misplaced ... I don't think the scene wrecks the film ... I've written some hard-to-forgive moments of my own in my stories.
OK, I give this film an "A". But if you want to watch it be patient. It's not a thriller, it's not a drama in the usual sense. It's about two friends who go away for a weekend together, in the mountains, and not a lot happens. It almost feels like the film is an entire weekend long, because of the silent moments. But they experience a wide variety and combination of emotions about each other. That's what charmed me, and made me laugh.
And at the end, neither of them did what I wanted them to do.
Worked a full day, cooked dinner, then T wanted to play more of his video game, so I picked a film to watch -- because I'm not at the condo, I'm not intoxicated. [I'm getting Time to Self here at the house tomorrow, though.]
I'm not sure I always need to grade films. If I graded this one, I'd grade it on a curve, because its budget was only $1 million, and due to intense anti-gay prejudice in India they couldn't even tell most of the film crew what it was about!
I'm surprised I stuck with this film because it starts in such a weird place ... WTF is going on ... who is this guy, where is he, what the hell is he doing, who is that other guy, there's no exposition, but after I stuck with it I began to feel it was one of the most honest films I've ever seen. No melodrama. No layering of plot lines.
There's a rather horrible scene toward the end that I'm not sure what to think about, which is probably the point. A character does something unforgivable by the standards of 2021 USA, yet he is still implicitly forgiven ... I haven't forgiven him myself, however ... but that doesn't mean the plot point was bad or wrong or misplaced ... I don't think the scene wrecks the film ... I've written some hard-to-forgive moments of my own in my stories.
OK, I give this film an "A". But if you want to watch it be patient. It's not a thriller, it's not a drama in the usual sense. It's about two friends who go away for a weekend together, in the mountains, and not a lot happens. It almost feels like the film is an entire weekend long, because of the silent moments. But they experience a wide variety and combination of emotions about each other. That's what charmed me, and made me laugh.
And at the end, neither of them did what I wanted them to do.