in truth, i should be rating this much lower for its capitulation to bourgeois nationalist views which uphold the fascist and dehumanizing caste system. i'm an american with a woefully limited understanding of india's history and politics, but one doesn't have to look very far to read about rrr's troubling curation of history and efforts toward erasure.
for all the declarations that rrr puts to shame current american hollywood action movies (namely the mcu), it would seem it's not soβ¦
"I feel like something bad is gonna happen to me. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way."
I kinda want to give myself a little slap on the wrist for this, but: if Twin Peaks were documentary-style found footage horror, it might be a bit like this. Its eye is maybe a bit less subtle than Lynch's, relying really heavily on slow zooms up to a grainy image where something tucked into a dark corner becomes clearerβ¦
11 or 12 years since I last saw it? I was still living alone in San Francisco. Throughout so much of this, there is either no music at all or there is a persistent, flat pulsing sound; a strange, resonating drone; the wind blowing. It is not music β it's more like something in place to emphasize the absence of music. Dingy and pale/white interiors, a Tokyo that feels simultaneously overcast and awash in diffuse sunlight, drained of color... Allβ¦
