 Do you enjoy and Johnny not like you enjoying Johnny? Anyways, today we're doing a movie review you Boca Chorros. Oh Even though you might not you're one of the all so Why'd you cousin at them in Bengali? I don't know. I just like cussing today We're doing a movie review of the 2019 film Android Konjapan. Wait a minute. I watched Ex Machina I guess it's kind of like Android Konjapan version 5.25 Directed and written by Rathish Balakrishnan, Hodeva and starring Suven Shahir Suraj Venjora Moodu and A couple of people. Do you see her do? Yeah, those are he and Saichu Kura. Yeah, Prasana He was the robot right? Yeah, Kendi. No, no, no, that's His girlfriend. Oh, yeah, that's right. Okay. Um, okay. It was Surjab Surjab Suraj Suraj Telekado Who played the robot like old school Star Wars droid style? Yeah, anyways, it's got between four of you if you haven't seen it. It came out 2019 go watch it come back Because we're just gonna go right into it rick your initial thoughts, please way more that I liked than didn't like I liked it. I didn't love it. Yeah It's worth watching most especially I think the premise is we saw this in the trailer. The premise is very original Yeah, the um, the writing is very good The acting especially from our dad and our son and I really I liked her too. Yeah, um, but the dad especially Was I I just question how long did it take you to realize? Who it was Do you realize who it was who the dad? Maybe I don't holy shit. You don't No one it's not an old guy. Oh, I know that. Okay. I knew that it's the husband from gradient from gradient kitchen Oh, I end the the the necklace one with the fa fa Wow, that's him Wow, we didn't realize it in the trailer reaction and then I I'm like, I know While I was watching and I was like, okay. I know I know this guy Do I know him? So I stopped it and I looked up on I do but oh Oh, yeah, I didn't know that great job on makeup But I I agree. Uh, I like this film quite a bit and I I commend them for trying something in the sci-fi genre And it's worth watching just to support. Yeah, uh, I because you don't get that a lot especially with Because I'm not so much like I know you they've done stuff like The stuff that's extremely over the top CGI like 2.0 and stuff that that like that But the fact that it's kind of like old school sci-fi where it's a guy in a robot costume or something Because that's like that's old school. Yeah, sci-fi hit or star wars or whatever And it kind of brings an endearing Quality to it. I agree. I would much prefer this style over unless it's great CGI, right? If you you can do either great CGI or this I am so glad they went this route Yeah, rather than CGI that doesn't work. Yeah, because if you did something this close in this intimate You got to have X Machina levels. Yeah, I totally agree. Yeah, but yeah, uh, don't I think it fell off a little bit in the second half for me Um and like if it's four acts the third act Yeah, yeah, I'd say it fell off a little bit for me They might have been able to trim like maybe 20 minutes off the film I think and they could have been a little more snappy. I believe this is the director's first ever venture. Oh, wow Let's see. Let me see if I'm correct here. I might be talking out my asshole Uh, let's see Yes, yeah, it was it was his director debut. So for a director debut Hats off to you man. Really good. Uh, but you can see some of the I think the newness of a new director Which the first half I thought was great and I was like, okay, cool We're getting into the second half here. This is gonna be just as good and then it just kind of I don't know I don't really know how to Fully explain it because it wasn't like the second half was bad. No, there's no it's similar to the the boxing film Uh that that we watched in terms of we said the third act kind of fell off a little bit Yeah, I agree not because it was bad. It's just it wasn't it wasn't as good. I think as the first half Yeah, and it kind of veered off from because I was really interested in and subin's character And and even his girlfriend towards the beginning and those kind of got pushed to the wayside a little bit um, and so I don't It's like I said, I I like this film. Yeah, there's way more to like like a lot And I really enjoy the concept. It's a fun easy watch honestly in terms of like this is not like um Combalogy nights where it's like you're gonna have a big reveal at the end a big right or whatever It's like this is kind of like almost like Mimi in terms of you can just kind of easily literally what I was just gonna say Yeah, in the same way that you can watch Mimi. This is like a really great We'll make you as angry as Mimi. Yeah, well, this is a really great rainy day Just make some soup and you know watch a matinee and and really enjoy some good acting a very interesting story that has I love anything that talks about artificial intelligence. Yeah I just I I love it. Yeah, and I felt like this did a very good job of Taking a What can be as is presented in one of my favorites mentioned already ex machina Taking something extraordinarily complex And making it just very simple and showing as I was watching it I was thinking to myself. I wonder if one of the intentions behind the film is to make us realize We're already there With technology. Yeah, we're already we already have a robot like 5.25 in our phones in our TVs that we are Attached to technically Tesla's making a working robot. They just announced Like a human Japanese have already done. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but now Tesla's done it But he's he has said as did I think it was Stephen Hawking Who was one of the first ones to say that the potential for artificial intelligence? Yeah Hawking went into depth about The one thing that he was certain could end the human race would be the advancements that could happen in AI And I remember seeing a short video of Elon Musk being asked you're on the cutting edge of technology What are some of the things that scared you because like back in world war two It was nuclear discovery. Yeah, and he said without blinking What's happening with AI is terrifying if you realize what can happen. Yeah. Yeah, it really is true Yeah, but anyways, let's talk about I think there's there's two stars subin as well But sir suraj who played the dad I thought he he stole the show. I thought this I thought this was gonna be a subin I'm saying the same correct. I don't want to miss I think that's correct subin I it's subin and he did a great job and we're gonna get to him, but I think the star of the show was Suraj especially Playing an much older man very convincingly. I 100% believed 100 if I had never seen him in in those two things Right, I would have 100% believed this was a a really old actor. Absolutely Without any question would have been shocked to find out. He's not that age. Yeah He carried himself much different than he did in the other two films We've seen him in yeah, he like it almost like we've talked about with dandy dealers He kind of let the the meat hang off his bones a little differently I feel like and so he and he was an impressive actor in those other things But this this really elevated him for me. I thought he did a great job And it reminds me as well. We'll continue to talk about the acting but He did stuff, you know the last film that we had reviewed. I talked about the fact that we both agreed It was over scored and we needed it to breathe Not only was the score lovely in that regard where there were so many spots where I didn't even realize the score came back in and I went oh there it is and it was perfect because and The director did a great job of allowing the actors to be actors. Yeah, and like one of my least favorite Notes to receive because it evidence is a lack of understanding of the art form and you'll get it a lot You'll get agents or even a director or a casting director say I like that. I like those the choices that you made with that. I'd like to get a few more levels I'd like to get a few more levels I'd like you to give us a little bit different more shades and colors These kind of ambiguous things that have really no place in regular behavior I don't know what that means when i'm talking to somebody. I'm never ever thinking about You know the the shades that i'm giving at that moment. You just are being mostly great. Yeah So I I really felt like the Emotional availability of everybody and the sense of like it wouldn't surprise me if the director Was Clint Eastwood style and just didn't say action just kind of let them go and then just started rolling cameras Yeah, which really felt grounded. Absolutely. Everybody could breathe. They weren't concerned about pacing unless it was organic That's probably my favorite part of this was his lead acting and the supporting acting that gave this real believability Maliello, yeah, they're so phenomenal at natural grounded acting I think I'm writing the most consistent that we've seen I'm not gonna say the best because we've seen great saying from from every single No, but it's the most like but in terms of consistency of the 20-something. I think maliello films we've seen it's Almost throughout without maybe one exception that I can think of that that it's all Great natural acting which of course is is our usual preference But yeah, he did such a good job his chemistry with subin as his son was great his chemistry I thought he was a grumpy old man that just walking through the The the the village interacting with other people who think that's the grumpy old man of the village And some of his best lines and some of the best lines throughout there are so many little throwaway funny lines That are so wonderfully acted and directed because they're not done for the laugh. No Like it's all deadpan. It's all deadpan. And that's what makes it funny is that you're not playing for the laugh It's just funny because it's funny Like the moment in the trailer when he's sitting there and he's talking about oh, well Here before we marry girls, we have to rape them or burn them. He was serious Yeah, that's what makes it funny. He wasn't kidding There were so many funny little throwaways like that a bunch of stuff about cast in this as well Yeah, there's a bunch of different lines like that because he was the guy he was very Uh, I think they called him conservative Old man here But he was like really prejudiced against a bunch of different people Yeah, which kind of like he's a I guess we've mentioned his name any before like a Clint Eastwood style old man character like a gran terino Gran terino is actually uh that style of character. Um, I thought he Did such a good and on the score that you talked about The there was moments was really subtle moments where it wasn't there at all, which I love Um, and also moments that it got like scary music like suspense music there for a little bit even though That's not really what this film is Yes, but it leads you to believe a little while that that's what this film is going to be Right, um, it never becomes like an ex machina, but sometimes it believes you that it's going to become and it's molly allam So I was ready for a bloodbath to happen. There's something crazy weird and I did okay So we really haven't given away any spoilers. So if this is probably a good place to go We're gonna start spoiling. Um, so if you haven't seen it go see it and then come back I I was surprised by and liked the ending. I was I was concerned. We were gonna get a cliche Where the robot killed somebody and I liked the fact that we were put in a position at the end Where the dad has to choose between the robot or the sun pretty much. Yeah Um and that I I believed and I empathize that that wasn't an easy decision I kind of came up with like a little twist ending though In my head you did. What is the ending you twist it to? At the end it it It shows the dad on the back of the motorcycle and then it turned into the robot and he said the robot's name Yeah, so I didn't know if like he was kind of almost hallucinating in the in the heat of the moment And the robot actually killed the other son that could be I don't know if i'm just thinking too much into it But I actually think the director let you lead did it's either. Yeah He's Swishing he had the robot back. Yeah, and his son is reminding him of the robot. Yeah, or it is that or yeah I didn't know I was just like I might be reading a little too much into this But because it was almost I don't know if you've seen the Joaquin Phoenix film her Oh, I love her. You you saw her. Yes. There's almost elements of that sometimes another ai Yeah with with um the dad and the robot at times. Yeah, it was almost like I was like, are they gonna go for like full on He's gonna have sex with this robot, right? I didn't know. Um, and I never fully got there. Obviously if you haven't seen her It's a great artificial intelligence moral conundrum movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and it has Really good. Yeah, what a surprise and scarlet Johansson is the voice of her. Yeah, um, but yeah, subin subin So so good. Uh, he was very different than the other stuff. We've seen him in I like that a lot I love that he was the lead in this because it's it's like watching The progression of Nawazidin because he's not your standard hero. Yeah, and I love it Yeah, and I was I was excited actually towards the beginning. I was really into his his love relationship with with her And I was kind of sad. I almost got put on the back burner a little bit or and She I liked her at first a lot and then she kind of annoyed me as it went on It's sad. I don't know why they made her to have a laugh thing either. I don't understand. We Mali alums are so funny Because at times I'm like, okay, she's doing great, right? She's working and then the other times I don't know what I don't know what this note was that the director gave her And so that though she for the most part I liked her the most part I liked her it's just I don't there's few choices that either she made or the director asked her to do that I was just like I didn't understand Well, I actually in that third act that we said kind of kind of gets in this For lack of a better turn or term or a rut. Yeah, or kind of just misses its pacing or misses where it's going I would have liked to have seen two things that I've had a vested interest in I would have liked to have seen more of their Relationship. Yeah, and I love the relationship He had with his old friend that he's talking to through the robot on facebook Yeah, I wanted to see more of that. Yeah Yeah, just slight nitpicking because again like the film I felt like everybody else I thought the opening scene where he's explaining. Okay, you have to do this and that's 14 times and you got to do this Yeah, I I thought it was really Yeah, wonderfully Biting satire and kudos to Say anything suraj suraj who played the robot Um, I talked about at the beginning. I'm so glad they went with this As opposed to full CGI if they couldn't get because obviously I think they they taught I heard they talked about it But due to budgetary they save a lot of money. Yeah, one. Yeah, and see to make CGI look really good It costs a ton of money. It's worth it If if you if you put enough money into it Um Like and you could get it to you know marvel level in the terms of like you can't even tell what CGI anymore In in terms of and or it's one of the things I love and if I I'm not mistaken Ex machina got visual effects oscar and I was so thrilled because like makeup Visual effects that are subtle and small are so beautiful to me And that's one of the things about ex machina is that the visual effects are all so small Yeah, but um, I want to shout out to him because Putting choosing to put a human in the robot brings a human element to the robot It does and so even though you can clearly tell it's a person in a robot suit Like it's obvious. Just like it was in star wars. Yeah, it doesn't matter It doesn't matter. You just it kind of brought me back to star wars almost a little bit. Yeah, I like he was a droid Yeah, um, and he moved like this C3po, who is the actor to play cp3? Kenny Baker. Yeah famous. No, that was r2d2 Um, anthony daniel's play. That's right. Uh, it still does And he has to walk a certain way. Yeah, Kenny Baker's r2d2 anthony daniel's is but he I thought he did a really good job as the robot in terms of um Making me you care for him and with his movements because it's it's it's not easy to do what he does It's almost I don't want to say puppetry But it's it's it's a different style of acting and it has to be consistent Yeah, because if you're moving one way in the film and then later on you change the way you're moving It it you'll notice those nuances of body language. Yeah, and it was consistent. Yeah, so I Overall, I really like if I really love the concept of the film. I would love to see more sci-fi not like I don't need like in terms of big CGI war film CGI I'm talking simple Uh, simple, um sci-fi and that's I think that's one of the reasons why and it makes sense You don't see a lot of sci-fi coming out of indian cinema or even for example short films and student films that are made because You're running into cost problems But usually for the world lee and correct, but this is a great example Of taking an original premise and telling a very good story with a message in it And you don't you can do a sci-fi film without spending a lot of money Yeah, uh, just have and that's one of the things we've commented over and over again that we love particularly about what's coming from a la yalom cinema so many original ideas and Gambles this is a gamble. Yeah, and I I I want people to watch this Because this kind of endeavor and creativity ought to be supported more more films like this We talk about we want more original films. Well They need the box office to have producers go. Oh investing in that makes us money Well, we'll invest in more things like that. Yep. Yeah, absolutely So let us know what's the next Mali album film that we should watch if you've got other sci-fi recommendations Please let us know and of course, uh, we need to watch more suvman and uh suraj Suraj as well What should be their next films of ours that we should watch let us know down below