I'm curious if there is any sort of mysterious moderator who is ready to banish hours of hardwork a connoisseur like me put here into oblivion, in the means of praising the little amount of quality a film has, all the while ignoring a plethora of reasons why it could be an unsatisfying drag of time.
I'm not saying that this film is an entire piece of junk at all. Vishama Bhaaga (The Other Half) does bring up about two real life monsters. Although, these two are unrelated with each other in the sense. One being the elevated levels of contaminents from herbicides and pesticides such as Glyphosate, Cadmium and Fluorides present in water sources and soil spelling doom on humans with CKDu. And the other being local teacher-centered education curriculum making the younger generation dumb and basically useless with their creativity, social skills, and cognitive abilities brutally being numbed down in the long run. This is a duo of such powerful topics and they can be executed at perfection in separate movies or documentaries... In my point of view.
But here we are, watching a slow-cinema-esque movie (slow cinemas are actually faster than this imao.) made up by mixing up both of these and leaving basically nothing to watch but overly sharpened and procAmp-saturated set of CGI-looking-yet-real-human characters swaying here and there in eternities of painfully unnatural silences that missed me a once-in-a-good-while opportunity to meditate to that faint hum coming from my TV set. All of the slo-mo scenes other than the bell ringing, was so darn cheap, as they didn't utilize some sort of optical flow, let alone frame blending, making it all so jarring to watch. Maybe the editor gave up using optical flow after rendering that one scene due to a CPU bottleneck. Lucky for you, I found one thing fun. And that is the slight resemblance to Wes Anderson Movies, e.g. The symmetry of the bucket captured at the doorstep, the school uniforms precisely equidistantly hung on the clothline, and a scene where the protagonist kid sitting on the middle of the porch. And also the color saturation and sharpness as I've mentioned earlier.
The only piece of background music this had was annoying as hell as it didn't match the scorching vibe of north central province, let alone the difference of day and night. And that poem about a bird, which supposed to be heart-touching was a hit and miss for me cus I didn't like the key that was sung in, except, my sister got it all looping inside her head and throat, since the melody was some classic folk tune. So far, this is an issue with me, right?
And, I hate that "uncle dial eka" as he was too rude at the protagonist kid. Jackson Anthony was surprisingly good at depicting the second monster I talked about, and man! Why would a teacher prioritize his ego and humiliating a particular kid for not doing homework?
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