Going nowhere
Did they choose cardboard boxes instead of actors to eke out the characters? Because atleast the first thirty minutes had as much emotion in them as a sock puppet has.
Just re-imaging your film around some sensitive events doesn't make it great. It's neither gritty nor feminist nor realistic. All it is is bland. More boring than watching paint dry.
In fact, if anything, this film reminds me of Birth of a Nation. Not in terms of visual storytelling. That was a cinematic triumph atleast. But in terms of obsession.
Just like that film glorified all the wrong parts, even for it's time, and portrayed some humans as less than another, this too plays into that cliche. Films were used as subtle propaganda and this, I feel, is another to showcase India as a barbaric land stuck in the past.
It's no wonder that Britons are stuck in a romantic notion for their so called glory days of the empire and India was the pinnacle of their achievement. So, films that showcase a modern India which can't manage itself, which lacks a justice system, will obviously have a resonance with certain parts of the British audience.
To heap furthur irony, it's funded by BBC films which and I quote Jimmy McGovern "one of the most racist institutions in England".
Initially, I thought it was just a bad film, now I believe it's a "bad propagandist film"
Just re-imaging your film around some sensitive events doesn't make it great. It's neither gritty nor feminist nor realistic. All it is is bland. More boring than watching paint dry.
In fact, if anything, this film reminds me of Birth of a Nation. Not in terms of visual storytelling. That was a cinematic triumph atleast. But in terms of obsession.
Just like that film glorified all the wrong parts, even for it's time, and portrayed some humans as less than another, this too plays into that cliche. Films were used as subtle propaganda and this, I feel, is another to showcase India as a barbaric land stuck in the past.
It's no wonder that Britons are stuck in a romantic notion for their so called glory days of the empire and India was the pinnacle of their achievement. So, films that showcase a modern India which can't manage itself, which lacks a justice system, will obviously have a resonance with certain parts of the British audience.
To heap furthur irony, it's funded by BBC films which and I quote Jimmy McGovern "one of the most racist institutions in England".
Initially, I thought it was just a bad film, now I believe it's a "bad propagandist film"
- kirk781
- Jun 2, 2025