 Does that shirt say scab? Nope. Am I right? Nope. It says Sagaftra Strong. Where did the term scab come from? Your mom. Herb. I honestly, I don't know. It's been around a long time. The first time I remember hearing the term was when Major League Baseball players were on strike back in the 80s and they called any player who would cross lines to go play because what the owners were doing was going for people who weren't yet pro players and saying, fine, you're going to strike, we'll fill in the place. That's the first time I heard the term, but I don't know that it originated there. Yeah, yeah. That's what they're doing now with influencers. Call them, what do you mean? Since actors can't go to the premieres. Right. And so they're inviting influencers in their place and so people are calling influencers. Oh, an influencer who goes in place of the actors? The influence, these influencers aren't SAG members. Got it. Or actors. Got it. You're replacing it. Yeah, no. That doesn't really qualify in my opinion. Hey, welcome back to our YouTube Directs of Corbin. We're not scabs. Keep following us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you to everybody's supports on Patreon. Follow us on Twitter to subscribe to our channel. If they're not, and threads, if they're not, if these influencers aren't members of SAG-AFTRA and they're not acting, I don't consider them scabs. Yeah, that's not what people do. I mean, because influencers would cover the promotion of, hello, we're... But technically ours aren't union stuff. True, but even if it was, if we were doing stuff on 2.0, which I don't... Technically we would not be allowed to go promote a... Yeah, technically we wouldn't be able to, because we're right, exactly, but if they're not SAG members, you can't... So like if Barbie, even if it was just so sad, it would be that Barbie contacted us and be like, hey, you wanna promote it? Oh, we absolutely could not promote it. We couldn't. Or Oppenheimer. Yeah, we absolutely couldn't. Anyways, hi. Hi, everybody. That's not anything to do with this video. Today we're doing a movie review. And we are doing a review of the new 2023, not technically new new, but it's new to 2023. I believe it came out in January or year, somewhere around there. Early, early in the year. But it, where is it, why isn't it coming up here? Yeah, I don't see it on any of your tabs. It's called Valvie. Valvie, yeah. If that's, I don't know if we're pronouncing that right, but what else is new? Kind of like Volvo, am I right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The new Marathi dark comedy thriller, I guess. Yeah. That's what they would call it, and it's directed by... Paresh Mokashi, if I've mispronounced, forgive me. Do you know what you've seen him before? I haven't seen him, but you know, he's directed? I do not. Oh, cool. Yeah, he directed, and that was over 10 years ago as well. That was the H factory. Partially wrote it as well, along with... Maruganda Kulkarni. Who is the producer? Kulkarni. No idea. Okay. And then starring, your three main leads are... Swapno Joshi, Anita Date Kulkarni. And then... And then Subodh Bhave. And if I've printed, again, forgive always mispronunciation. There are other people as well, but those are your three main leads. Yeah, yeah. But this will be, since it came out six months ago, we'll do a spoiler review. So if you haven't watched it, it's on Z5. It's only about an hour and a half, hour 40. And it goes by quick. It's a short little film. So go watch that there and come back, so you're not like a spoiled, like a spoiled little spoiled baby. Rick, your initial thoughts of Volvy. And we are, you just said, we are gonna do spoils right out the gate. Yeah, just because it's been out six months. So if you'd like to see a non-spoiler one, there are some out there that you can go see, but just, I would say go and blind. Right, go and blind, always better. So there's way more to like than not like. I didn't love it. I was hoping I would when it got started because I was loving the premise when it got started. The things I do love about it, we will talk about because there's, like I said, there's way more to like and enjoy about this. And I'll talk about why I didn't ultimately love it. But I can see why people would really enjoy it. It is very entertaining, it's very funny. It just had some things in it that I'll express a little bit later that kept me from just going madly in love with it. Yeah. Now I really enjoyed it. It's kind of right up my alley for this style of film, especially The End, which was a lot of fun. So we'll talk about that as well. But I had a, one, I do, one, this had a very small budget, Marathi, they kind of always would. They typically always would, a small budget, but also I've heard that this is a new genre for Marathi. They haven't gone into the dark comedy genre a lot. Did a good job. So I do like that and applaud it and it's done very, very well. Yeah, it is done very well. So that's fine. I love hearing when smaller industries have films that one are good and do well. So Marathi, I do believe that kind of like Malayalam in terms of their people do like to support, just good films. Which is wonderful. So that's a lot of fun. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. I was along for the ride. I had a good time. It also like, I'm always trying to like get ahead of film. Get ahead, guess ahead. And it swerved for me a lot of times and I was like, that's good. Thank you for not going the stereotypical route in a lot of places. And so I had a really good time. I thought all the actors did a really good job. Yeah, they did too. We'll talk about that. But let's just get into their performance for first and foremost. I like that the fact that this jumped right in. Me too. Me too, right at the get go. There's no build up. Nope. It's just, here's the plot. Yep. Let's go. And that's good. That keeps people engaged. Great start. There's not a slow time to get into it. Yep. You start off and you're like, okay, we're gonna kill ourselves. Then you figure out what's fully, well, you start to figure out what's going on and it's kind of almost like Ocean's 11 heist. The setup of it. It's like, right, here's the plan. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then it turns into a comedy of errors. Yeah. Kind of film. But actually, we didn't shout out her but I thought, not the lady in the clinic. Who's the wife? Oh, sorry, are we shout out the wrong person? Oh yeah, Shivani Surveys is the dental person, the dental doctor. She's the main, and then there's also... Right, and then Anita Date Kalkar is the wife. If you've seen it for reasons, she didn't have too many lines, but she did have some. Yeah, she did have some. She did a very good job of what she had. Yeah, I thought she did a really good job. I liked, I like films that all these characters were very, to put it kind of gray, right? Yeah, I think at first, you'd say that the two main, the couple, they're like, okay, they're having an affair and they're trying to kill. So they're probably not good, right? Yeah, yeah. And then this other guy, you thought he was kind of just a nice therapist and then he decides that I'm gonna kill her now. Right. And then just shit hits the fan. Now they're, once again, spoilers, mass murderers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All of them. And so I liked the spiraling out of control. Like really when it started to spiral out of control, it became even more fun for me. But I thought all three, especially, oh, four, I guess. So if your four main leads did a good job, what did you think of the actors? Yeah, I thought everybody did. I didn't see anything at all. There was one small moment that was, the moment when she pushes him and he falls back on the couch, I could tell that was orchestrated in that moment. That's the only moment. It was early on where she, the dentist person, he was telling her something about the story. He was excited about it and to get him to stop, she just gave him a little push and he fell back on the couch. I could see that he knew he was gonna fall back on the couch. Very, very, very, very nitpicky small moment. The only moment that I felt was false in terms of everybody being believable, I really felt everybody brought their A game in terms of their acting ability. Everybody did a really good job. It helps that you have a really crisp script that has you talking to one another, the way that they were talking to one another. And I'm sure there were some things as well that came through in the editing process that the actors loved and made their performances heightened. I could tell there were some editing choices that helped. And transitions between certain scenes, like they did pans and then a pan to the next, like it was a really good job by the editor and cinematographer. Yeah, that's huge. It's always a huge part of the storytelling but in this one in particular, the cinematography and editing played a really important role in keeping us connected to the characters and seeing their reactions. Yeah, yeah. And adding to the comedy. Yes. I was gonna do, do, do, do. I was gonna say something that I forgot. Anyways, there's the one particular moment with the editing I loved where he's explaining to them right when they first get there. And he's, you know, they- They did the therapist. The therapist, yeah. And they've just discovered that he took her body and she's dead in the chair. And there was a moment between all of them where, and I loved they would go back, he would look at her to go back to when he was talking to her before she died and then it would come back to them in the room. There's this one really quick moment where it just looks between each other in a little head nod and a shrug and a go back that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, I liked the amount of like he let the comedy happen. Yeah. Cause it's all situational, obviously, in this. Cause like all the comedy, cause it's- Which good comedy is? Yeah, it's- It's all situational. You don't play for the laugh. You're just like, this is ridiculous. Absurd. You're, all of you are murdering people left and right. Yeah. And that's what, like it goes, comedy goes into overdrive at the end because there's just so much is happening. But the, God, I remembered what I was gonna say and then I just forgot it. What the fuck was it? Oh, no, I was gonna say something about the, the fact that it was such a low budget film. You couldn't tell off, you could tell at certain times that they probably wish they had some more money in terms of just like, just certain things with camera and, but the fact that he did so much was so little. There's not a lot of sets. There's not a lot of, there's a lot of time in the car, couple outsides and then there's the three, the dentist's office really, the house and then the therapist's house. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if there was zero set construction. Oh no, yeah. Except from like the creation of the chandelier. Prop, small things but no, didn't have to, it didn't have to build something in a sound stage, didn't have to go build something in an exterior, they just used real locations. So good job on, I'm sure you're very, very, I don't know how much it was, but I'm sure it was extremely limited, just being Marathi and a dark comedy genre that hasn't been explored that much. So hats off to the director and the writing and the creators to make something that is engaging and fun. When it really starts getting into overdrive, you knew what was gonna happen. People started piling up. The bodies just keep piling up. People keep coming into the car and you're like, okay, now we're gonna know, you have to kill this person now, obviously, you already started and then the cops going back, okay, you have to kill the cop now and then they just kill this random person that they could have saved on the side of a road. Right, right. I was like, you two guys are, and then it was going and going and I was like, I know there's not much left in the movie. I actually looked at this, I paused it and saw there were 10 minutes left and I thought, how are you gonna wrap this up, man? Cause you're still seemingly deep in the plot line here. Yeah, yeah. You're like, you can't redeem these people. They're just murdering people now. Like they're just, they're flat out murderers. They gotta get caught. You can't be like, oh, we'll learn from this. No. No, you have to get caught. You can't be like, these people are redeemable when they've killed like eight people or something like that. And the fact that it just right at the end and they were like gonna figure out, well, I didn't know if they were like, and then they keep happening until I didn't, I was like, are you just gonna end it on an open, on an open thing? Right. And then they, like comedy of like, air, they try again tomorrow. Right. And then they kind of keeps going on and then they just get crushed by the sand. I think whoever came up with that ending. And there's a tie obviously. Particularly, yeah, particularly the termite tie-in. I thought that was very, very smart. Yeah, it's like her. It was unpredictable enough to have the chandelier fall on them. I didn't think at that point, because there were several moments. This is the, there were several times throughout where things happened that for me, and it wouldn't be this way for everybody, it's just me, would have really strained credulity and didn't have a justification for me in reality, huh? It's a drink. Yeah. Have a drink. And so at that point, I wasn't expecting a justification for the chandelier. I thought it was just a nice button to end it on the level of inane ridiculousness that this film had been. But to have, it felt really nice after the several moments throughout where I found stuff that for me just didn't sit with the believability and justification factor. To have such a strong justification for the chandelier showed a level of insight and intelligence throughout the storytelling that was very pleasing. I was very satisfied like you with that ending. It's, you know, me and my endings and I end on the strongest moment. I mean, I would, and they did, they didn't technically end on that moment. I would have preferred that actually. I didn't need to see the aftermath. Yeah, you could have just panned up and saw termites. Yeah, just boom, but it wasn't that long. They, it was like a less than a minute scene after. And I was like, okay, whatever. Yeah, cause obviously they were like, there's three bodies on the couch. There's three bodies on the, what the hell happened? What the hell happened? Here. Yeah. But like when it fell, man, I, first I was like, and then I just died laughing. And I would love to know as far as concept and storytelling, a lot of the times when you write a story, you begin with the end in mind and you build backward. Yeah. You can't build this thing backward from that ending. Really? I mean. Well, you maybe. I mean, if you did, I'd be astonished. Riders are a different breed. A completely different breed. Worthy in America of a 2% pay increase. Thank you very much. Yeah. But yeah, the, I very, very much enjoyed it. The end was a lot of fun. Just, it's very, very me. I enjoyed it. I was along for the ride and I had a good time. So it succeeded. What were the, some of the, I'm assuming strain of credulium moments. Yeah. There were just a couple of moments that for me in the justification, cause this wasn't, this wasn't, this was comical and dark, but it wasn't farcical. I'm reminded of, Andrani and I got to see, or no, it wasn't Andrani and I, it was Ashley. It was Ashley and I. We got to see on Broadway, this one, the Tony I believe for comedy on, on Broadway. It was a gentleman's guide to love and murder. Fun show. But it's very farcical. And it's very much the same thing. It's kind of a who done it. It's, it's, but it's very tongue in cheek. Oh, we know. Very ridiculous. Yeah, we do. No, there were just some moments for me that actually some of you would might be able to answer and it just didn't get through my thick skull cause I was just having a, Oh, I get it. Moment. That just happened. And that, that, that happens. I, I, I didn't, I didn't fully understand some of the motivation behind the psychiatrist, what he felt he needed to cover up because he had a, an absolutely willing person to take the blame the moment the husband stepped in and did what he did. And he saw that. I know that they tried to explain that in the text when they're having a conversation because he said they would find my DNA in her belly. But if he can't be placed there at the crime scene and the crime can be placed on him, I don't, it didn't, it didn't have a fully fleshed out justification. He had poisoned her. He had, but. So they're going to see that he was, she died by the point they explained that when they were doing the whole, the scene in his house. That they'd see that she died via the poison first. Correct. His DNA is in her belly. And so that would have implicated him there. It would have given him an implication. However, that it would have been an extremely far reaching far fetched implication because of the fact that she had drunk the poison herself. So it could have been simply she decided she didn't want to be caught. It would have been really easy for him to say, well, she clearly killed herself because she was so ashamed. She'd been going through all of these problems. She was already suicidal. That's what she was talking to me about. And the fact that we had had an affair was the last straw for her to push her over the edge. And she was too shamed to admit that she had this happen. And even though she had a baby inside of her, it wasn't her husband's baby. So she just ended it by poisoning herself. He doesn't, there's no, there wasn't a strong enough sense of him needing to cover it up, especially when the husband came in and did what he did. Because he left enough stuff and traces that if anyone would have been implicated, it would have been him who the psychiatrist then could have said if he was asked, well, clearly he was angry with his wife because she was pregnant with my baby. So he not only poisoned her, he made sure it was really done by when she was passed out shooting her in the head. He just, it didn't feel like it was a strong enough implication for him to justify him stealing a body and hiding it. I didn't have an issue with it in that moment. It seemed fine to me. I was perfectly believable to me. I get it, so it's fine. Yeah, and then just a couple of other times of the taking of the bodies in and out to me in the midst of the place where they live to have not been seen was somewhat implausible for me because they had to move her body from that place to his place and then out again. And then they brought all three bodies back to their place, especially on a night like New Year's Eve when everybody's up all night and out and about anyway. That was another one that was hard for me to swallow of. Not once did anybody see you guys hauling these dead bodies in and out of homes. That's part of the movie though. That happens a lot in like who done it movies all the time. And I'd have the same problem. I'd have the same problem with any movie that did that and it just didn't seem plausible. It could see, yeah, but it's also plausible that people didn't see. Yeah, but it's more than likely they would. I think that if that's your viewpoint, yeah, but I think it's just as plausible that no one could have seen or thought anything of it that she was just asleep. I don't considering it, like I said, considering it's New Year's Eve and everybody's out and about and you live in a city, if they were in a remote part of India, that would be different. And as well as they went running away from the car wreck because someone turned a light on and they didn't want to be seen. Yet he gets out and goes back to the car to make sure that it's completely engulfed in flames. What's the justification? They're gonna see you do that too. So why, did he assume I've already been seen? So screw it. I think it was more of the guy in the car got a good look at him. So the other guy probably just saw, if they were looking, saw a shadow of just a random person. He saw his face, so he needed to make sure that that guy was there. Again, if you're running from a place because you're so scared you're gonna get caught, it doesn't make sense to me that you're going to go back to that spot you were just running from to do something else that you could be seen doing. That just is irrational. Well, not if the guy saw your face and you don't want. Obviously, but also they're not gonna do everything rash because they're trying to not get caught for murder. So they're not gonna do everything rash. Like they, in the beginning, they were trying to plan out everything perfectly and they still couldn't do that because you know, you can't predict everything. What would have solved that would have been one character saying, why did you go back? You were gonna be seen. Just the acknowledgement of, because there's so many other things they acknowledge that are more complex than, I mean, it's the reason they killed the cop. There's so many other things that they're aware of. The whole rationale behind we're not gonna do this, we're not gonna do this, we're not gonna do this. They're constantly thinking about what they're going to do and what they're not going to do. So it just wasn't plausible. While the other things were very plausible, the majority of the things that they did were very plausible. Yeah, it's just those three or four things that I felt were not justified. Well, you aren't an idiot. So there's that. But yeah, those didn't bother me in that scenario, but that's fine. But you overall enjoyed it. I did, I overall enjoyed it. I can understand why people would love it. I understand and I'm thankful. It's very original. I would watch this a hundred times more than I would watch the majority of the Marvel and DC films that have been coming out recently, although I have heard, did you, you heard or seen, I don't think you've seen it. I heard Guardians, this last Guardians was actually quite good. That's encouraging. And I wanna see the Spider-Man. Oh yeah. Because that one, the first one was great. I need to see that as well. But also, we don't often get to see new Marathi films either, so I'm glad we got to see this. Because people had pointed it out because we would catch it, we caught up a bunch of them, a bunch of Malayalam films that we missed last year. Make sure you don't miss the new films this year and people point this one out. This one's fun. And so if there are others that we have missed in Marathi or other languages that came out this year or last year or whatever, please let us know what they are. Oh, you know what I figured out? Because in the Not-A-Rang or whatever the... Yeah, the Tohka and Kearney. The Tohka and Kearney film. Nude is the same director. Oh, as that film. As that film. Interesting film. I've wanted to watch Nude since we saw the trailer. Yeah. And I like being Nude. I do too. In the summertime, it's what I do. And I'm sure they'll remake this in Hindi and Akshay Kumar will play the lead. Oh. Anyways, let us know what you thought about this Marathi film, what should be the next Marathi film that we should watch. Please let us know down below.