 It's all about English-Finglish. Do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Morning noon English-Finglish. Do-da-da-da-da-da. O-oh-oh-oh-oh. Next, idiots, on Corbin. Alexis. Ashley. Rick. It's a full house today for a movie review. Woooo. This is your first time doing a movie review. Yeah. Your first Indian movie ever. No, it's not true. It's not really. But your first review. It's true. Yeah. So, have you really watched the film if you haven't reviewed it for the internet? Definitely not. Nope. I don't think so. I've never seen The Dark Knight. It's true. But, yes, we watched English-Vinglish on our first endeavor into the wonderful and lovely Shredevi. Other than her dance video that we loved, her snake charming video that you all hated, but we loved it. But it came out in 2012, it was her last film, I believe, before she passed. Let's not talk about that yet. No. But you didn't know that? No. How old was she in this film? 50. 50. Oh, wow. She looked like 20. Yeah, she looked amazing. That's very impressive. She passed away way too freaking young. Why? She was 55. It's sad. Yeah, it is. Anyway, we'll tell you at the end. But we want to, it's going to be a completely spoiler review. Spoiler? Sorry. Oh, Brian. There's a raven. If you haven't seen this, please don't watch this review yet and go watch it. Thank you. Yes. Who wants to read this? One of the girls. You don't want to read it? It looks so good. A quiet, sweet-tempered housewife and your small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter every day because of her inability to speak and understand English. Good synopsis. Oh, nice. That's partially there. That's partially there. Yeah. And it's directed by this female. I don't know it. Gari? Gari? Yeah, Gari. I bet it's Gari. Gari. Shine. I think it's Shinde. She also directed Dear Zendagi, which I don't believe we reacted to. No, we haven't. But I've seen the request for it. It's probably coming, I think. But yeah, she wrote and directed. She wrote and directed it. And obviously starring Shredevi. So what did you think about the Zemovie? I loved it. I loved it. I don't have stuff to say about it. I just love it. So you need to know how much we're putting Alexis on the spot. She hates us right now. She really doesn't have a lot to say about stuff and feels bad that she doesn't really have much to say. And she shouldn't, because that's her right to have not much to say other than she loved it. Like, Micah's response to everything is pretty good. But yeah, so you started out the film introduced to Shredevi and her terrible, terrible family. What did you think? I thought that her child needed to be parented. First of all, that girl was such a little brat. Um, not okay. Don't speak to your mother like that ever. First of all, but I think it was so good. Shredevi obviously is amazing. I mean, I don't think that's a secret to any of you people. But she's so good in just the little nuances of the choices that she made from an acting standpoint. And your favorite things, the little head nods and all of that. I just can't. Yeah, if you didn't know that about me, but I am just, it's inexplicable. It's a mystery to me among other things in my life. But when I see what you guys refer to as the Indian head nod, it always touches my heart. But there's certain times when certain people do it, like when Shredevi does it. Or if I just, I'm undone. You're smitten for the head nod. I am utterly smitten. I feel it in my heart. I felt the entire time in this film, I watched it with my wife, who loved it as well. But the entire time I was just like that. It's so funny. The entire time that we just... What? The things that we, the thing we said over and over again was, oh my heart. She's adorable. Was just my heart, my heart. And I now... And the French guy and it's just... Oh, the French guy and I can't, I now relate to something that the stupid babies say all of the time. Which is, I only have one heart. How can you win it so many times? That happened over and over with so many characters. The teacher. He was great. I absolutely loved the English teacher. And the whole, everybody in the class. I loved all of the different dynamics that they put in. The storyline was just so beautiful. There's a lot to talk about. But yeah, so... Let's talk about, just quickly, the very wonderful and surprising cameo. I lost my mind. I was watching it and I jumped up and I was like, that's the big piece. That's exactly what I said. And she was like, who's that? And I'm like, that's the biggest star like ever. That's like having Al Pacino show. And she was like, I love him. She's awesome. I love him. Great scene. I was like, I didn't even know he was in it. I'm wondering if he's going to be in it. He wasn't in it anymore. But he like killed the freaking cameo. Killed that scene. Oh, that was a great, great scene. Great scene. Yeah. I shouted, Big B! And it proves, it proves what, I mean you got to admit the fact that there is something to be said about star power because you could have put someone else in that scene who would have done an admirable job. But the fact that it was him raised the level of my enjoyment of that scene because it was Big B and Street Evvy together. I did like the fact that in this film we, there was a lot of cultural references that we get now. Yeah. Like when he said his name was Salman Khan. Yeah. When the other Indian laughed and none of the other people knew why he was laughing. I had it here with the girls. I laughed and I went, yeah, I got to explain why that's funny. He's like, okay. I know what that means now. And have we had legumes? I don't think we have. I don't think we have. No, but I mean, I don't want some. I mean, nuts, all the sweets that we were seeing that looked like other foods. It just looked so good and then she made them. Well, and to see it set in, we all love New York so much. Yeah. I thought that via directing wise this was beautifully. Beautifully corrected. I think my favorite films that we've seen, in terms of just enjoying it, the entirety of it. Yeah, the entirety of it. Yeah. You didn't feel any, I mean it was quite short for an Indian film. It was two. Like two. I was under five. Yeah. It was two hours, five minutes. But it flew by. Flew. I loved everything. You were enjoying every second of it. Expect when she was on screen, you're just like, I'm wondering, please answer me this, because this is the first thing we've ever seen of her. And it was exactly her last. But is this how she is in all of her things? Or like, is that just her spirit, just this kind, gentle soul? Gentle. Is that just who she is? Or has she done other stuff? It was just this amazing performance. Right. Outgoing person. Right. I've never seen another film, and she's like Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada. I know she's a legend, but this is the only thing we've seen her in. Right. So please let me know. Oh. Obviously we should watch that. Yeah. The dad, her husband. Yeah. Yes. Yes, he was. He played the dad in Life of Pie opposite Taboom. Oh really? Was he all there too? He was a very similar character. But he wasn't as insensitive. Let me tell you what I hate about this. Doctor, and it wasn't about the film. Okay. I hated that she stayed with the film. He wanted her to go with the French one. She is unhappy. He is clearly unhappy and not trying at all. I'm just saying, that's just how I feel. You're not happy at all. At least you leave it. You don't have to stay in it. Both of you are clearly unhappy. Your kids are terrible. Leave them too. They're terrible. You're just in jail. God, they're awful. But the dogs, don't leave the dogs. They're terrible people, all of them. Well, I didn't categorize them off as that. All the awful people. Did you see the little girl realizing what she'd done? She was so repented and heartbroken at the dinner. She's going to name five minutes, yell at her mom. I don't know. Because her dad isn't. And I think he too had a realization that he's been short. No. You don't think he did? I don't think he did. The daughter definitely did. All he was carrying about at the end of her speech was like, do you still love me? She should have said no. I think it's sweet that she chose to stay with her marriage. She chose to keep the commitment that she made. That example. No, because she says this. Bad example for children. Don't say a relationship if you're unhappy. And she's saying that she is taking fault for some of the problems in their relationship because she had given up on herself. She wasn't doing anything. And so she was just letting herself be walked all over. And now she's taking a stand of, no, I'm better than this. And I will be treated better than this. And I know that you love me because... But it takes two to tanga. It does. All he cares about is her making la dues because that's what she's born for. And when she gets home, he doesn't want to talk to her. He just wants to have sex with her. True. Yeah. Not deserving it. Right. Like he is literally an awful human. Yeah. But at the same time she was taking ownership of the fact that she, without excusing him... You didn't do anything. Yeah, without excusing him. No, no, no. She took ownership of the fact that she allowed herself to be treated that way and allowed herself to be diminished. That's what the Frenchman's role was in her life. That showed her she's... No. It's my fault that I allowed you to treat me this way. You know, that is dumb and I hate it. No, this is my thing because she could have learned English. I know. Corbin's take on this is going to be looked at like my piano take on... No, I think they would all agree with me that he was an awful human being. This is actually poignant to the story. No, I wouldn't categorize him as a completely broken off... I have hope for the world. Yeah, I do too. I don't. I have hope and I like... She said something to this effect in her monologue when she said that love and commitment has to transcend how you feel about something and you stay with something because you've had a commitment to it that even when it's rough you're still going to press through and not give up on it. Yep, and she has hope that it can get better again. Right, exactly. Well, she's been in that relationship for how long and hasn't gotten better it hasn't. But she hasn't gotten better until now! Let's move off of him. Let's go on to something between the other children. They're both terrible. No, that was really cute. He was annoying. Oh, you loved it so much! No, he's annoying. Anyways, he just... Corbin just hates children. No, I love children. Just not bad ones. But yeah, I thought the direct... Obviously, the songs in this were really good. Oh, the music was so good. The little, like, themes you had kind of come out of it. Yeah, there was a little theme they had in it that was so reminiscent of Finding Nemo without plagiarizing it. It had that same, the feels you get when you watch Nemo. I love this movie as much as I love some of my favorite... I was thinking about the difference between, say, a film like Hater, which you guys haven't seen. But that is a cinematic masterpiece, right? It's not fair to compare that and this. Because while this is not a cinematic masterpiece, this is one of my favorite movies ever. Forget... I don't equate my film favorites to Indian and American... They're movies. Yeah. This is up there for me with my big fat Greek wedding. This is up there with... Well, with as far as the same kind of feelings, the feelings that are similar, it's a very different story, but like Brooklyn, those heartwarming feelings where it's just... It's a good one. Yeah, good one. If you haven't seen Brooklyn, it's a great film. It's so good. It's a real breakthrough. Breakthrough role. Yeah. So, so good. So, I wanna know what are some of the things that you liked in particular. I know you loved it, but what are some of the things you liked the most in the story and the movie? In the story. Yeah. Well, I could tell you something I disliked. Sure. The husband and the kid. The husband and the girl. I loved the little boy. I saw him tell it. Yeah, the daughter who was bad-mouthed the whole time. The daughter, she bothered me. But what it really bothered me was she was trying to buy her coffee. Oh, please. Oh. Oh, no. That seemed really bad. They made me so angry. They made me very angry. So that scene made me angry for a different reason. It wasn't realistic. I thought it was really dead. I understand why they did it. Yeah, they had to accentuate it in a way. It's accentuated. I get it. It's New York. That place has everybody under the sun. Right. Foreigners out the butt. Right. And so they... But not everyone's in need. They might be a... But they won't be like... I don't know how to order it. She clearly can't speak English. They know that. They know that. I understand why they did it. You had to be hiding it. I get it. But then it introduced the French guy who was a phenomenal actor. Love him a lot. I love him so much. Beautiful work. Beautiful work. I want to see what else he's been in. And the whole everybody in the class. I thought that ensemble of the students in the class and that teacher just... I love every single one. I love how they did the relationship between the Frenchman and Sri Devi. Yeah. Because clearly he was schmitten for her. Totally. You said word a lot in this review apparently. But obviously she clearly liked him. Yeah. But obviously she's from a very conservative family and a very conservative culture. And so the relationship, the way they handled it, I thought was really well done. Yeah. And because I was like... I wanted him to be with her but I knew I was like it's not going to happen. No. It's really sweet how they did the mix of his culture where French are just like I'm pouring all of my feelings out and it made her so uncomfortable and he had no idea what that was. It was a great scene when they explained that to him. Yeah. And that for me is probably... If it's not the thing I love the most, it's way up there, is the current throughout this especially with her relationship with him as well as the relationship of the students when they're sharing why they want to learn English. And then when David the teacher had his heart broken and they're talking and he's listening outside the door, this message throughout of why can't we... I'm going to get emotional. Why can't we treat each other with a level of respect and understanding even though we're different? Yeah. Why can't we recognize like for example the guy who was quiet the whole time and then finally said something? Said something. And at first you can presume that the guy because he was silent and he wasn't nice to everybody that this guy was really... Yeah. When in reality that was a wall, he was being very protective of his heart. I'm just totally listening at this point. Yeah. I just thought that level of acceptance of each other and not being prejudicial and not judgmental which was a key line in the thing. Yeah. That for me is the most beautiful takeaway of this is the lesson you can get from this of watching this. If you watch this and don't walk away with why can't we just be nicer to each other then there's something wrong with you. There's just... There's something... There's a disconnect in your social and moral conscience. It was beautiful. Yeah. It was a great film. Great film. Anything you didn't like about it? No. There was nothing I disliked. I mean I could get really, really nitpicky on some of the acting choices that the kids had to do. Yeah. I give kids a pretty long leash because most kid actors are not extraordinary. What about all the white people in it? Except for the Frenchman. He was good. You know what? I honestly didn't notice whether there were or weren't any white people in it. Well, the groom and then the groom's father were just garbage. Oh, I know what you're referring to. Pick them up off the street. I know what you're talking about. What Corbin's referring to is how in virtually every Indian film you see, the white people are not really good actors. I think it's on purpose because... It'd be one thing if it was like any foreigner in a film. But all the foreigners in the class were all really, really good actors. I wasn't a huge fan of the teacher. I know y'all were. Oh, I loved him. I wasn't a huge fan. But I understand that's how y'all feel about Indians in American cinema. I don't know what it is because the French guy, he's white. He's really, really good. But if it's an American white guy, is he just garbage? Is he French? Because if he's not French, 100% believable as a Frenchman. I can't imagine he's not French. That's how good he was. And I really, what you said earlier about Sri Debbie, I would love to know is this a complete departure from her work? Or is this who she is? And like Tom Hanks, when you watch Tom Hanks, even when he changes things up, you're getting the core of Tom Hanks most of the time. And that's what you love about Tom Hanks. Is that the same with Sri Debbie versus like a Meryl Streep? Where it's just... You don't know what you're getting when you watch Meryl. She's going to be shape-shifting what's her next thing. So I'd love to... All I know is I can't take my eyes off Sri Debbie. Yeah, and both things we've seen of her, it's just so captivating. She has such a screen presence. And it isn't just her beauty because she's got the eyes of a doe. Just these big, beautiful eyes. There's something about her spirit. It's just so kind. There's something about her spirit. 10 out of 10 stupid. And it made me very sad watching it because we missed her by just a few months. Because she passed away in, I think it was January of 2018. And it was very tragic. I think she was in Abu Dhabi. And her husband had come to be with her for something. They were in a hotel. She went into the bathroom to get ready. She didn't reply. He knocked on the door. He felt something was wrong. He broke in and she was face down in the tub. And the cause of death was drowning. They thought maybe it was heart attack. They knew that she had some alcohol in her system. But I don't think there was enough there to definitively... You all will know way better than I do. But I did some research on it. But I don't know if she had a heart attack or if she slipped and fell and hit her head. But that was at 55. This was her last film. She looked amazing. I would never guess that she slipped. Incredible that she was 50 years old. She looked so young. She came up to me and I was like, this was the group before she died and she was like 50 something. Like what? What the heck is going on? I know. She looks like 25. I know. And I can't say enough about the direction and the writing. This director is really, really good. Say her name again, please. Yeah. Her name is... I'm guessing Guari Shinde. Shinde? Yeah. Guari Shinde. I thought she did a masterful job. Masterful. Just a beautiful, beautiful film. Yeah. Absolutely. 10 out of 10 stupid. People wanted a stupid meter. Oh yeah. Stupid meter. I would give this... I can't imagine you making a more perfect film with this subject matter and this content. I think if you were to make a film and say this is the way it should be done, that's how you do it. It can't get better than that for this kind of film. And please let us know what should every film we should watch next. And other stuff by this writer-director. Yeah. My goodness. That was amazing. It could be old films, really old films, because I know she's been around a long, long time, or some of her new stuff, just let us know because we want to see more of her. We do. We love her. It's not about English, English. Thank you.