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Perry Mason (2020)
Slow burn. Like reading a book
If you have ever eaten a good piece of chicken in your life. You know how right it had to be cooked to get to your mouth. The preparation that had gone into marinating the chicken and then the slow roast and the spices. You savor every bit of that Chicken. This series is that piece of chicken. Its a origin story of Perry mason from a private detective to an attorney. "Early setup late delivery". This series lives by this line. If you are paying attention there is enough details in the early setup to guess how everything is going to play out. Even though your are aware of the killer in the beginning of the series the main aim is justice. Its not a cat and mouse game. Its what you can prove in court. Do you have the evidence ? Do you have the narrative to convince the jury ? Will the judge be convinced by perry's arguments. The main aim is, as perry puts it "to set the truth free". There is noirish ending true to the era that the series is based in. Its a origin story like no other. Consider him a Noir Super hero with his own set of flaws.
Kill Dil (2014)
Kakakakaka....Killlllll Killllll Killllll is all that you can say
Bollywood nowadays is coming up with films that are so bad that they are actually good. But this movie doesn't even fall under that category its a has a class of its own.
The story, lets consider it has one is about two hit man Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) who owe their life to Bhaiyaji (Govinda) because Bhaiyaji literally picked them up from dustbins and has raised them to be his hit men.Bhaiyaji calls them occasionally and hands them their target and which they finish off easily but who will kill us and free us from those poor jokes that Bhaiyaji cracks. 20 minutes into the movie after all the back story a song and some gun shots, of which not even one hits our hero's we meet Disha(Parineeti Chopra) who takes home a goon who saved from another goon for a after party at her friends home. At this point we know Parineeti does what is called as professional criminal rehabilitation who doesn't recognize criminals even when they say stuff like "I am shooting from the time you were not even inside your mother but your father" (rough translation). That explains why she is not good at her job and doesn't rehabilitate even one criminal through out the film. If anyone need rehabilitation its the audience after watching this film.
So Dev falls for her. Now Dev has a difficult choice of choosing between his godfather or his very recently acquired love interest. The rest of the plot you may have guessed by now Dev tries to become a well groomed man but Bhaiyaji won't let him. Bhaiyaji tries to convince him and blah.. blah.. blah...
The plot has so many holes that you could push the whole Qutub Minar through it(pun intended). Bollywood movies have reached a point where the less logic you apply the more you enjoy the film. The actors try but fail there is nothing they could have done about it. The script is just too weak. That makes you wonder if these people even read the script before signing such films. And do the makers even watch the rough cut of the film after making such pathetic films.