 to our watch along of Charlie, the Mali-Alam film from 2015. If you're seeing this on YouTube, you're seeing a very cut up version because of copyright reasons. If you'd like to see the full and cut version though, you can have it on Patreon, I'll put it in the description below in the pinned comment. So you can go check those out. And at the end of this part, we will talk about the film and review it for your enjoyment if you'd like to, if you care to know our thoughts on it, which I assume you at least kind of do because you're watching this. Or you're not and you accidentally click on it and you're like, why am I here? That could happen as well. But anyways, let's just get into this. Okay. Back into this. Because we've already seen most of it. I do these all at the beginning. Here we go. The old Irish goodbye. What would they call it when you leave without telling anybody? Oh, my. If you don't get it, drop that bus stop right now. So you're not planning to leave, are you? I'm not planning to leave. I'm planning to forget all this when I wake up. You have kids, don't you? Or is it a joke? Not even a kilo. A doctor. Hey! Now tell me all the details. Tell me if you've seen enough of the test. I'll be there in a while. Let me find out. I'm Shruti. Shruti Ram. Who else are you waiting for? I'm coming from Veer. I don't know where your Tessa is. Why don't you go home? I'll find out. Who is this Tessa? Did he leave you and run away? We didn't see that. We thought he was a fool. But we thought he was a thief. He's not a real thief, Tessa. Then straight to Pushkar. So, let's take a photo together. Okay? Yeah, I know. So are they banging or what? Yeah, they definitely are. So Christ is banging somebody? So you think... I think there was a lot of evidence was pointing to he was a Christ-like, keep one, Kerala, very Christian state of India. So if it's not out of the realm of possibility, you said they would have a, I don't know if it's Christ-themed, but a Christ-like character in one of their movies. But then she put her shoulder on him from like, so Christ is banging somebody now. Wait, wasn't there a, that was Da Vinci code, right? That was Da Vinci code. Oh, is this interweaving? I don't think so. Oh, okay. I don't think so. You don't think so? You don't think he was a Christ figure? There was lots of hints. I mean, I can see... Tons. Kerala's for sure. Yeah, you don't think he was like a... But I don't think it was like retelling of the Christ story. No, it's not a retelling. I think he's playing a Christ figure though. Yeah, okay. I mean, he did a lot of just helping people and... Totally. Or saving them or... A lot of his goals were definitely... There was... To save people. There was... Definitely righteous anger in there. He talked about either Christ or him or my father a lot. He also then did the... Over the head. That's like a really iconic Christ photo with the thing. Also, it looks way more like Jesus than any Western depiction of Jesus ever would, by the way. Except he's way too gorgeous for to be actual Jesus. Anyways, so that part at the end threw me for a little... Plus, it was just he was supposed to be like Christ. Yeah. And he could bang as well. Not a lot of banging for Christ in the Bible. From what I've read. I don't think he was in Song of Solomon. Those were the other people in the story. But yeah, I think that was definitely... It was evident from the beginning until the very end that he was some type of... He was, at minimum, a depiction of somebody who is of Christ. Jesus Christ, though, if you will. Yeah, I could see that more than like... Well, that's what I was saying. He's just, he's playing a Christ figure. I don't think he was... I don't think they're telling Jesus' story. Like modern day Jesus. No. I just think he's playing like Christ-like figure and they did a lot of parallels of him talking in a certain way that I still... I'm confused by the end. Are they banging? Are we allowing Jesus to bang? I don't know. The skirt really stuck on the Jesus thing. I just think it's... Are we allowing Jesus to... Well, in normal Jesus stories, they would frown upon Jesus banging because that's, you know, we both grew up in the church. That's a sin. Yeah, Jesus doesn't sex. No sex for the man. Anyways, yeah, I... I liked it. I thought it was really cute. I don't know if it's much of a romance, though. Yeah, I think more of my takeaway was like... He's out here helping so many other people and he's putting himself on the back burner due to fear of letting himself be taken care of, letting himself be loved. He's doing that for all these people and he never stays in one place too long. He has all these relationships, but if he stays, they could go south and then what will he do? So he's constantly on the move. He has all these places that are home, but not really home because he doesn't stay long enough. He has all these people that love him and care for him, but don't really even really know him because he's not long enough there for them to actually know who he is. So I think one of the big things is he brings this lady, but 70 years, and then he's like, if someone knew where she was, couldn't I have met her sooner? And what would my life have been if she didn't become a nun and I didn't spend my whole life waiting for her? Like, don't do the same things I did, like that type of thing. And then the other is like in a world full of like millions and millions of people, you can find your person. Yeah. I think she stuck on the Jesus thing, but I do see the parallels you're talking about. Well, I think there's absolutely that involved, but I think at minimum, heavy undertones of he wanted this person to also emulate Christ because it wasn't, I mean, he'd helped a thief, the young Alice, thief, see the young Alice, he hang out with any hookers. No. No, okay. But obviously he helped the kid. Yeah, also like, that's his child. His 12 year old baby. She was done worse, for sure. Yeah. Why do you think she didn't immediately tell him her name? I think for her personal fear, I mean, I think it was, it was just like why, she's been searching and searching for him and he's been running and running from her. Why would she just be like, it's me, please be with me? I also thought that was another kind of parallel because for you to seek out and follow him, kind of a parallel kind of thing. At first I was like, did he just mind fuck me? This is not actually, I was confused for a second. And then that was a. But I mean, like technically she did go and follow him. Follow him to the sheets. Now they're traveling together on a tractor full of corn. I thought they both did really, really well. Dolcor Shaman, I thought he did. I loved his apartment. Yeah, apartment's great. I would like to, they should make it and put it on Airbnb. I'd like that. And I thought she did a great job as well. I believed her the entire time. I loved her luck, loved his luck, very me. Tessa. Tessa as, why do you think they kept bringing back her family though? I don't understand that. Like even at the end, it almost seemed irrelevant. Right, like she didn't go back for the wedding or anything. Well, maybe it's like, you know, like. That almost seemed like an irrelevant aspect to me. I mean, if you wanna go Jesus, leave all your worldly possessions and follow me. Exactly, exactly. Have sex with Jesus, that's what we're saying. I live to offend Christians. Sorry. But yeah, I just didn't understand that, especially the end. Like obviously I understand the, she's a free spirit and her family doesn't want that and want hers to live, want her to get married to who, but she's like a free spirit. I get that. But like bringing it back at the end and then not really do anything with it was kind of strange to me. I do think it was weird because at the beginning she did seem to have such a strong relationship with her grandma and her grandma was the only one that really accepted her and like they were both the weird girls. And then she's in the hospital and she's like, well, grandma, sometimes you gotta be in the hospital, but I gotta. Yeah, they didn't address that. That's why I thought that in part, I thought they were gonna be, there was something else that was gonna. Right, like she was gonna go back to the wedding or something. Yeah, something. And they just didn't touch on it again. So I thought that was weird. Yeah. Yeah, that was probably the strangest part to me. But I mean, yeah, forsaking all others. Yeah, I guess. I don't know, man. And Charlie, I feel like that might mean Christ. Because in LJP's films, what was that one? His have a lot of like Christian parallels to him. There was one that was like, oh no, let's just look up. It came out until the 15th. It's probably Charlie Malia Lalam meaning, I did not understand the movie of 2015 Malia Lalam. How did Charlie get a selfie with Tessa? This person says, it was not Tessa who chased after Charlie and chose Charlie as her love. It was Charlie who chose her as his love from the beginning of the story where Tessa runs away from the house and takes a ride with a scooter guy who's another, we obviously saw that at the very beginning. He made her run behind him, leaving clues. Also, he was carrying a tree. Yeah, yeah. The tree of life. That's interesting. Did you pick up that? Did I think it was him leaving clues? I mean, I guess it would make sense because he's the one that made the phone call to his apartment. Yeah, that's true. He kept calling until she answered and then was like, do with this stuff what you want. Whereas she never, she wanted somebody else to come and clean it and it wasn't until that phone call that she started dealing with it and found the other stuff. And I mean, all the people in the boat were people that she eventually met. You turned into a mermaid. Runs over to avoid getting married and rents a room just to give you context. She's dressed in traditional, say that, Sarah? Syrian Christian Chatham on duty. I don't know what that means. A guy gives her a lift on a motorbike. The audience needs to know who the good Samaritan is at the end of the movie is really true. Yeah, obviously. Oh, gotcha. So they're just explaining how he got the things. He's a magician, obviously, and he did that. I didn't pick up on the fact, if that's true, you guys could tell us. This is, I'm just reading an internet thing. But. I mean, I guess it could be turned that way as well, but I mean, how could he know just by those clues that she would seek him out? Oh, he is Christ. She might have just been like, pfft, lano. That's an interesting one for sure, that theory. Because that's not something I picked up on. Yeah. If that is, in fact, the case. You guys let us know if that's what you, if you think that is the case of, he was the one that was orchestrating everything in terms of. Yeah. And then everything would make a difference. The cat and mouse play was actually him just. I could see it. If you watched it again, you might be able to pick up on a little more of how he did that. But, yeah. But I also thought the visually, the film was really, really pretty. Yes, it was. So the cinematographer. Definitely an artistic treat. Really beautiful. The shots and the lighting department of this were top notch. Beautiful, beautiful. And the songs as well. The songs were beautiful. I loved the music. Especially liked the song where they were both dancing. And I found it very charming that both of them had very beautiful, flowy costumes for it. Cause I feel like oftentimes it's just the girls, but he had a beautiful, flowy red skirt and I loved it. Yeah, I liked the, I liked that. All the songs were really, really pretty. And it was very gosho, by the way. I did pick one. Composer was Gobi Sundar. And Godesh Chana Express. Chana Express? The Chana Express? No, he did something else on Chana Express. What, I don't know, but he was involved in some way in Chana Express. Which we did a watch all enough, so you can go check that out. He did. I was there. Now I'm rethinking everything to see if it was him doing the orchestrating of everything. I loved the song that was basically like a girl's romance novel. That's the one I was talking about. Is that the one you were talking about? Yeah, essentially if you go like in a bookstore in like the female porn section. This is what they call female literature. Totally. It's, well that section specifically though, he's a naked muscular man with a white horse. Yeah. It was a lot of that, which I really appreciate it. I loved Subin as usual. He's so great. He is. He's an absolutely fantastic actor. Oh, that was him too, the one with that guy. We've seen him a lot in my video on films before. Chamban Vinod Jose. I've heard a lot about this movie and it was really nice, I really enjoyed it all. It was unique. It was, it kept you, I don't, I mean, I get it, they did end up in the end together. You didn't want them to? No, no, no, no, not that. I wanted them to. I just wouldn't, I don't know if I'd classify it as a romance. Obviously they end up it together at the end, but like it's a lot of just looking. So I don't know if that's, and it's not even their story. Normally it's like in terms of like what we're seeing a lot. We're seeing his backstory or her picking up the pieces of his backstory. I get that, that's romantic. Could I mean, I guess the other end of like if it was him leaving the clues all along, like he has. It could be romantic, that's true. He has orchestrated his story in a way for her that by the time that they meet, she is just in love with him. That is very true. That if he was the orchestrator, then it is very romantic. That is true, except for the sex trafficking part. That's not very romantic. It's good. But it wasn't him. Oh, I know. I just, that segment's not romantic. True. It's just justice. Well, not good enough justice for sure. Not good enough justice. Yeah, that was nice. I'm rethinking everything. Not there. It's definitely a thinker. I definitely think there's, even if it's all that, I can't be the only one to pick up on. There was a shit ton of parallels. Well, I mean, even in the apartment there was, there's a stairway to a picture of heaven. Yeah, there's a shit ton of Jesus references. Yeah, there is. There definitely is. And I totally see that. So maybe he wanted to make a romance film with parallels of a guy that has Jesus qualities about him. Yeah, maybe. Maybe he's a Christian and he's actually doing what Christians are supposed to do and try to emulate Christ, maybe. Yeah. I don't see a lot of those. Don't see a lot of those. Yeah, let us know what you think of it. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that this is one that you could probably watch. Yeah, for sure. And pull out new things every time, because there's so much artistically going on. So in the shots, in the art, in the background, in all of those different things, I'm sure every time you watch it, you'd pick something else up. Yeah, and I love their performances. I've loved every time we've seen them on screen, both actors. Yeah, it was very good. And Subin, always, always super. I love him so much. She did well as well, the doctor lady that was gonna kill herself. Oh, yeah. Aparna, which she looks familiar. She might just look like Prank a little bit. Chopra. But yeah, I knew who you were thinking of. Okay, cool. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. I would definitely watch it again. Oh shit, Jojo George produced it. The guy in the other movie that he directed that we saw, the twinsman, he produced it. Good on you, mate. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed our watch along as much as we enjoyed it. I know sometimes we were just staring at the screen, but. And for real life, I feel like we watched a movie recently. It was like, Mr. and Mrs. D'Souza. Like it was like, I can hear the voice. Anyways. Well, you guys are gonna learn something else. No, I don't know. I definitely won't remember those names, for sure. But if you saw us on YouTube, or if you saw a very cut version, if you'd like to see the full uncut version of this in other films, Mali Alam Ones as well. You can have it on Patreon, up on the link in the description below in the pinned comment. Let us know what our next Parvathi and Dolkar Salman films we should watch, which we are next Mali Alam Watch Along with Steph O'Reck. Let us know what that should be. And if you think Christ is banging. Let us know down below.