 It's been easy one or two seconds halfway up my nose not a big deal, but CVS Radford. I did yesterday and today brutal way up there and Spinning around for 10 seconds. That's what she said. Oh, yeah Hey, welcome back to our stupid Rex's eat it's I'm Corbin. I'm Rick false Instagram a twist Welcome back to classic Your dreams were your ticket Welcome man that show that is Older ones could you know who would know that? I'm this is one of the things that blew my mind about her when I was gonna know and Johnny would know that show She watch that show. Yeah, we all she grew up watching the same shows that I grew up Most people might wouldn't know that would not yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, I know I got introduced it from a teacher in high legendary, but it's my childhood. Yeah, yeah So today is once again classic month and we are reviewing mother India It's time for mother India The 1957 I think this might be the oldest unless a poo was around the same time. I want to say The first oh poo was 55. Okay, so a couple years before this ballpark in it And I don't know that for sure. Yeah, yeah, but this was we do know famously famously Was the first Indian film nominated for an Oscar correct? So it's big in the history of Indian cinema. It kind of changed the game For a lot of stuff in Indian cinema. I do think it was It was shot in color, but then I think they recolorized it. Oh really which I think Made the colors a little more a little more wacky. Oh, yeah But yeah, 1957 mother India directed by Mop. How do you say that my boob my boob? Yeah In fact, we've seen that pop up before and I didn't we didn't I don't think we realized that that was the name of this legendary Director because there's my boob productions. I Think there was a reaction where you said something like yeah, it's my boob and we were doing a boob joke about it It's typical of us but starring Yeah, Nargis as a brother and Sunil Dutt. Yeah, who we saw in putt Dawson. Yep So kind of on a Sunil Dutt binge here but yes, it's We dug the purpose this we watched on Amazon for some reason They were like, yeah, you can have English subs, but for you people that need English subs You don't need it for the songs So none of the songs had subs Why go figure. I don't know no sense Songs in Indian films are kind of important Because they kind of you know, yeah Progress the story and even if they don't even if it's just a throwaway thing of like a celebration I still want to see what they're yeah saying saying so I'm not sure why but that's the only place It was available. Yeah to us. Um, so it just prefaced that so obviously underpins for the review Appreciate every Indian has seen this film. Yeah, but it's 1957. So we're gonna spoil it. Yeah, watch it I'm pretty sure it's on Amazon. Go watch it come back Rick your initial thought of it lived up to the hype for me. It in terms of the Technologically story Direction cinematography It it lived up to the hype for me I I have a lot to say about it in that regard as well as the allegory that it I I know other people have pointed out because there's a lot of represents that we won't pick up on That has to do with Hinduism and representative things of her role and other people's roles and things on the story That's way over our heads and we don't know yet But I ultimately it went off the rails at the second and like the third act So yeah putting four acts the third act when it became more pedos and like oddly It kind of lost me for a moment and then got back on track. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's if you're a film lover You gotta watch it. It's definitely an important film I think in terms of if you're exploring a need and some of you can't not know or even if I was teaching theater again I would say this is as important as gone with the wind This is something you need to see to understand the history of international cinema in terms of a film I love the first half. Yeah, I love the end is why yeah acts one two and four basically, I thought it was almost an A plus film Right up until it's almost two films because When she was the center of the story. Yeah, and this was her story. She was carrying this thing She was doing a fantastic job agree. I loved it. I was invested in her story. Yep I was I felt for her. Yeah, and then this Second third fourth, I guess it shifted to being the Sun story, right? And I did not even though I liked him in pedos and I did not like him in this I I don't even know that's this might have been the start of the angry young man phase Right and in Bollywood, right? It just it didn't work for me in the way. I think you know big B I think probably would have worked. I think you may not have perfected that style for sure But it was very his character only was very over the top and I know it was kind of symbolic of almost a Hindu God He was correct. I forget which one. Yeah, very mischievous. Yes, and I know that's what they were doing It's just everyone else, especially Nargis, right? Yeah, she was so grounded, especially in the first half Mm-hmm, and I was like, okay cool and then it just shifted on its head to being all about him and It was him being a very over-the-top melodramatic and it just that that's where it fell off It turns that that I gave the first half and a plus and then when that part of it I was like this is almost like a C minus for me I agree and then at the end it kind of brought it back a little came back and so overall I'd probably give the film like a B because of that But if it was just the first one idea there was this is almost a perfect film I loved this film. I did too and I felt that not just that interpretation character-wise, but that act-free That became comedic. Yeah more. I really preferred the grounded Nitty-gritty earthy. I mean at one point I wrote in my notes good grief the amount of tragedy Yeah, I was like she can't catch a break seriously which goes to the allegory So let me that's for me. I've read a lot of things in regard to what historians have said about the film As I was watching it. I was making some notes to myself as I always do and The where are we in my drafts? There we go mother India Where are you are you in the okay? Sorry, it's in the other email and there it is mother India. So first of all It begins with us immersed in Indian traditions of marriage and family and then quickly turns to show us the challenges of Business interactions the connection between Indians and the land and how families work hard together and then it also pointed out to the difference between Lazy thankless wealthy class versus the hard-working grateful lower class, right? Yeah, and then she began to embody for me everything That not only a mother sacrifices for her children But everything India has had to sacrifice for her people Yeah, and this coming on the heels is a lot of historians point out. You know, this is just ten years removed from From our nation. Yeah, and it really she embodies the struggle and I I got a greater appreciation for Jaihin as well as the whole motherland concept and the idea of Loving your country like a mother and and the importance of a mother It was really ironic on the heels of my mom and I being reconnected as well and I found the Technological aspects of this Were Cecil B. DeMille. Mm-hmm the flood. Yeah, it was some of the sets they had in this thing were absolutely That's so impressive. It's like because it obviously you know, they're not real sets But we've talked about this for with old Hollywood old old cinema in general, you know, they're not real sets, right? But they look so dang impressive. Yeah, like that. You knew exactly how they did the flood scene But it's still so impressive for that time of Cinema, yeah, it's it was so it did bother me a little bit that they almost Rushed past some of this trauma because she lost two children and what the first one that she lost I it was like, oh wait, did she did she die in the flood? Right, they almost didn't touch on I know and then she lost her the second one And they almost brushed past that and then her husband. Yeah who she lost in Even more painful way than if he died. Yeah cuz and then oh man The shot with him looking at her And he takes his thumb and he takes her crimson. Yeah. Oh That killed me. Yeah, and him leaving and going away the other thing. I Don't know how much it was appreciated in the 1950s, but it sure has to be appreciated today A woman carrying a film in 1957. Yeah, she absolutely killed it. Killed it. She was phenomenal I Loved her performance. I love the whole female empowerment. Yes, but she can literally do anything a man do with a child on her back Yes, yeah, carry the family and she doesn't have any qualms about it No, and she just keeps persevering. That's what I wrote one of my sentences about her was that She is the embodiment of what it means to literally have your entire homeland destroyed in every way She had everything happened to her Family death economic death the land has died and been stolen and people have taken She just everything that ever happened to india under british rule, right? She's the embodiment of that yet Never gave up for the sake of posterity and did whatever it took to restore the land to its former glory And people said to her you're never going to restore this land and she's knee deep in muddy water It's like so three years before you can do it. She's like don't care. Yeah, don't care Matt's my favorite part of the film for sure and then just these epic when that flood started and then the fire at the end which apparently There's a story about them getting caught in the fire sequence and One of them rescuing the other and getting slightly burned, you know in our yes Oh, really and and I remember looking at that sequence. They're filming with all of those stacks of hay Burning out of control and thought The only the only thing I can think of that has this scale Of epic it reminded me of gone with the wind. Yeah I've I've not and the flood sequence at that time. It's just It's just a technologically. Yeah, this thing is something that was absolutely massive and and and wonderful I think it could have been almost Apparently, uh, I read her. I don't know if it's true. You guys can tell me that it was like one vote Made it was not win. It was one vote difference for it actually winning. Yeah, and I find it interesting There's the academy I'd like to look at the history of the academy because it's so weird to me That india would be on the map and it should have been because this is the kind of film that the academy has always looked at Because it's not just a great story about these people, but it's representative It's the first time india's cinema industry got to tell an epic film about their struggle Yeah, and the academy always loves those kind of things where where cinema tells holds up a mirror and says Here is the injustice that happened to a whole group of people, right? But then for some reason you literally have this gap. It's like Do we really go from mother india to just a little blip with lagon? And then it's slumdog for the academy To be paying attention to indian cinema. So new people we know slumdog's not an indian film Yeah, I know people are going to be disconfused. Yeah, and we'll get a million comments We know that he was just making a reference point the reference in the connectivity of the academy's attention To what they consider to be indian slumdog's not an indian film I'm looking forward To getting to witness the resurgence of not just See when we bring up the academy It's because when the academy pays attention to films at a level when it gets awarded or nominated the rest of the world pays attention South korea is on the map now in ways. It wasn't before because of parasite And that's true for every film when roma was nominated. It became a big thing for mexico And india is going to have her do many many years over. I should have already that should have that's unastonished something this good in the 1950s Just didn't maintain Come from the selection process. It is it's the selection process and what's actually submitted. Yeah, whatever india Decides to submit. Yeah, I think that's the whole issue Obviously not because obviously they have films every year that could probably be nominated for an oscar Yeah, and that we've seen a ton that should have been But yeah, this film Highlights nargis if i'm saying that correct. I feel like i'm not. I feel like i'm whiting it We probably both are nargis She's I i've heard about her this and she's up here, right? I believe she's right here. That's yeah, I believe that's her right there I think that's her too And I've heard, you know, she's this wonderful act. I would love to explore her more because she She was phenomenal. Yeah and this she like if if the osr awards happen right now She's definitely in it. Yeah, I think in terms of lead actors, right? Yeah, and because of the way the character was written not only a female carrying it, but we're looking at She was working side by side with her husband and her husband was Cool with it. The village was cool with it. It wasn't the what is she doing working alongside the men and doing it pregnant Yeah, you know Oh, yeah, and then at the very end I loved what was the symbolic last thing of the water that was flowing mixed with the blood And again that connection of the people of india with the land of india that the land literally has the blood of indians in it and like her Oppressed never of anything that they did to anybody else. They've always been victimized. Yeah, and yet Fought back and said I will not give up. Yeah. Yeah, so the production design is obviously freaking brilliant. Um, some of the best we've seen In terms of the sets and and and what they did with special effects and it was just a crazy impressive Yeah, um the songs even though we sadly we didn't once again have some they were still great There was a ton. Yeah, I think it was like 12. Yeah, uh songs and they were all really good songs. Yep Really enjoyed them all. So yeah, overall, I probably give this home a b Just because of the second half. I think brought it down just slightly Like the first hour and a half is an a plus for me if that it's a three hour film So it was literally two films because she was the original main character Then it switched to the sun being the main character. Right. I just didn't enjoy that as much. Yeah, I love the little I love the little boys Yeah, they were great. Yeah, I just I didn't I did be you as a little kid Sunil Dutt's performance as an older kid just didn't work for me But I I think I give it two grades because I agree with you about it as a standalone as you're watching it, right? But then when you take the historical significance of it overall, it deserves all of its accuracy. Absolutely. So, um, that was Wonderful. I'm so glad you lived up to the hype Thank you so much for suggesting and making sure we got to it. We finally got to it. Yeah Right, this was one of the first things. Yeah, I was like, okay, you're reactive to Indian stuff. Watch mother India So two years later, let us know what's the next Nargis Uh film and the next classic film we should watch. Let us know down below