 You may have seen this on Instagram. I may have seen it. I was at the grocery store yesterday. Didn't see that. Find what? Dinner. Ingredients. Went to a weird place to buy, but okay. Yeah, go on. And as I was there, I hear, excuse me, and I look, and there's this young Indian girl with an excited and nervous look on her face. She said, are you Rick? Well, Rick, you're married. And I said, no. No, there's a stupid baby. Kyle, she's from Tamil Nadu. And she was really sweet. Was really great to encounter a stupid baby at the grocery store. And Ashley was recognized by a stupid baby in the airport in Tucson. We're everywhere, man. Wow. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction of course. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Thanks for watching. Follow us on Instagram, subscribe to the like button. I mean, we have 1.3 billion people that want, billion or million? Where are we in? Billion. Million. No. Well, those are pretty close together. You were prophesying. Just like you said, we need a plague. Yeah. And COVID came, I believe we will be the first. We need another one, I agree with you. Is there a YouTube channel to hit a billion subscribers yet? No. Okay, let's do it. No. Come on, stupid army, organize. Let's do it. Patricia T-Series is the biggest YouTube channel on the planet. Yeah, but they would have what? Probably 100 something million. Hundreds, like close to 200 million. 200 something million. We can pass that. Yeah, probably. Easy. Today, we're doing a movie review. And it is of the new 2023 film, Malayalam film, Irata, which we just. Which stands for the Rata trailer. It stands for what? The Rata. Ah, okay. Yeah, sure. Directed and written by Rohit M.G. Krishnan. And produced and starring in dual roles. Jojo George. And it's on Netflix, and so it is new. So we're gonna do mostly non-spoiler. Yeah, and then we will get into some spoils for you. Just because it's new. Even though it's been out, like it was in theaters, but it just came to OTTs, I think, just a little bit ago. And so we're gonna do a little bit non-spoiler for those that haven't seen it. If you wanna watch it before even watching non-spoilers, it's on Netflix, and it's only an hour 50 or something around that time frame, so. Oh, it's less than that. Oh, really? Yeah, it's only an hour 50. No, it's more like an hour 12, hour 15. No, it's certainly. Hour 50 would be three hours. One hour 50. Yeah, one hour 50 is, oh, sorry, sorry. My bad. I thought you said, I keep banging SRK. Ha, ha, ha, ha! Don't we all? You got it, baby! Just leave it. Don't touch it. Don't touch it! Sorry, I thought you meant 150 minutes. No. Okay. There you go. Hour 50. One hour 50. Anyways. Sure, that's what you meant? Yes. Oh, okay. Should we make half the video about the runtime? Yes. Okay, great. And Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I thought it was, it felt like a three-hour film. How long did it run for an hour 50? Hour 50. Oh, I thought it was 150 minutes. Wow. But that's my takeaway. Oh, we're gonna do more than just talk about the runtime? Shut up. Just say what you thought about that film. I really enjoyed this movie. We'll talk about Mr. George. And it's, going in, just know and be prepared. And I hope, I would assume the majority of the stupid family are of this kind of mindset that you enjoy films that are lovely narratives focused on story and character development and relationships. And you just wanna sit and watch really good acting and be interested in a who done it that has personal connections and a really, really great performance. I'm not saying performances. Yeah. A really great performance by Joju George who shows you exactly the way you should approach a dual role when you're playing twins like this. I really enjoyed this movie. Yeah, it was, I did as well. I thought it was a really interesting film. Also trigger warning for those that, there's something about rape in this movie. So just know that going in. That's all I'm gonna say about it. Some people don't, they don't show any rape. No, that's important to know. The subject matter is going to be part of the story and it has to be. But yeah, it's good to know. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna, it's good to know. But you don't see it, there's nothing. There's a spoiler to know about that and it doesn't give anything away that you're not gonna see. No, but there is rape that is implied. Yeah. And so just, I know some people obviously if they have trauma in their past and stuff like that, I just wanted to know. As is domestic violence. If you have domestic violence in your past, you should know that that's part of the subject. Yeah, not a ton visually that would probably trigger you, but if you're triggered by the thought of it, that'll bring up, this film does have that. And we wouldn't bring this up in other films because there's been a lot of really violent films that have those subject matter. But when it's super, super violent, that tends to go outside the realm of the more day in, day out kind of vernacular that people experience. It could still be triggering for people, but this is such a believable story that is so grounded and so real that the lesser exposure can be even sometimes more traumatic than a full blown in your face. Yeah. I thought Jojo George did a... Oh, I can't wait to talk about what he did. Fantastic job. And so we'll just go over a little non-spoiler stuff. I thought the story was really well weaved. There was some stuff that maybe I would have maybe done differently. I agree. We can get into that in the spoilers for sure. I didn't think it like there was nothing that was glaringly bad in the film. There's just stuff that me personally, I would have probably connected it a little crisper. Yeah, there's one aspect of it I would have executed different specifically just in the writing and the story and when a particular big revelation is revealed and when and how that was revealed. It's just a preference of mine. It doesn't, but like you said, it doesn't make the film relax. And there's, I thought the really subtle score behind it a lot of it, but also it kind of added to some of the suspense and it starts and it kind of grips you immediately in this film and you're like, what the hell is going on? And then you're gripped by Jojo George's performance. I mean, we've only seen I think two or three of his films, maybe four tops, but he's always fantastic. And it's probably his best performance that I've seen of his so far. Yes, without question. And he does a great job. And so overall, I think it's definitely a worthy watch if you're into kind of almost crime dramas, a little more intense. Yeah, who'd done it? Not like a fun one like a glass onion. Yeah, it's not knives out. No, no, nothing like that. It's far more real. Knives out is clearly something that you would think, wow, the odds of this happening are pretty low. This feels more... Yeah, this could happen. Almost true story-ish, you know? It feels really good. I bet it's a lot of people's true story, unfortunately. But yeah, so that'll be the non-spoiler. I think it's a very good movie. And I think you should definitely go watch it. I think it's definitely a worthy watch, a short watch too. It's an hour, 15 minutes. And I think it kind of runs by pretty quickly because you're engaged for the whole time. You're engaged the whole time. There is, we'll get into this in the spoilers. There's no novelty at all in these twin roles. No. This is, you as you should stop thinking about one actor playing two characters and you're just absorbed in the story of these twins. And it's a conversation. It'd be fun to watch with someone and begin to process together what do you think happened? Who do you think's doing this? Who do you trust? Who do you not trust? And uniformly, I felt everybody, the biggest factor with a grounded storytelling is always in one word, believability. And from start to finish, everybody did it. Sometimes, especially in smaller roles, the believability factor can get injured and you know you're watching just, you just go, oh, because the acting was so bad. And that never happens in this film. Throughout, you just believe what you're watching. So go watch it. We're gonna get into spoilers now. So if you haven't watched it, please stop here. Yeah, because it's coming back after you're done watching it. Once again, it's on Netflix. Please go check that out. So let's talk about Jojo George, obviously, because he's our main lead of this film. Such a mastery of doing two roles, I feel like. Cause I'll tell you how you do it. I mean, obviously, it just depends on the film. Obviously, this is a very realistic film. And so as opposed to like, if there's a big Bollywood film and like one character is supposed to be this big, bombastic and in between his bubble, that's obviously, they're trying to do something completely different. Yeah, that's entertainment. Yeah, that's just entertainment. That's just an entertainment. In terms of just, and then you could kind of blend the two with what like Tom Hardy did in Legend. Yes. Those were caricatures, each one of those. They were very big. Very realistic as well. This one, it was just so subtle. They were very similar in a lot of like mannerisms and stuff like that, but also he didn't have cliche mannerisms or anything like a Twitch one has. Right. Or a Scar. But obviously they were very different personality-wise, though. And you could tell like when one of them was on screen, you're like, okay, I know which one this is. I know which one that is. And it's all very subtle. Yeah. But he did a masterful job. He did. And a big part of the credit also goes to the way the scenes where the brothers are together are shot because it was done in a way to show you, hey, we're using special effects right here, but it was never, Hey, we're using special effects right here. They never did anything bigger than they needed to. It was all grounded in the storytelling, like the scene where they're sitting at the table and he gets mad and he throws the table and that's all we were left with. Yep. They didn't try to stretch that. Everything felt justified. And for his portrayal, the best way I could describe it is he simply changed the shading of the color of each person, which is really what differentiates when you, if you've ever known identical twins, most people who don't know them can't tell them apart. When you get to know them, you don't understand why people can't get to tell them apart because they, that you just, but part of that is truly just the nuances of the person, the differentiation of the person. And I felt like he did enough, substantiating of these characters, particularly, Vinod, who has a more unresolved trauma, brokenness, but he never plays that. He's just, he just is it. And it's the difference between one character to me has a little more bright colors in it and the other one's a little more huge in grays. That's how subtle it is, but I knew each character, every time each character was on screen, I knew who we were looking at. And it was so interesting, obviously, because it starts off with, you see somebody got shot, and then they went to Joju's other character, who's not dead. And you kind of follow him and he gets a call and you're like, okay, what happened here? What's going on? Cause you're like, did they shoot the kids? Did they go, what's going on here? And then you go and then it's Joju George on the ground. And so obviously that starts your intrigue into the film and what's happening. And then they do kind of the backstories. And you're like, yeah, I'm kind of glad he's dead, right? At first, you're like, you're raping people and you're just kind of an asshole. And then they kind of, cause I've saw some people like, why did he need a love interest? And I was like, I think that was to show you that he wasn't just this evil, like obviously he did a very evil thing and that's probably evil in some aspects, right? But then they were like, okay, maybe this was just a one-off drunk thing, not saying it's okay, not trying to justify it anyway. That's what they were trying to do with this character of. Now he's having a love interest who he thought about raping for a second. Yeah. So like he has this very gray to black part of his self. But then you're like, okay, maybe he's changed. Maybe he's really remorged, maybe blah, blah, blah. And like you show this so people would care about him. Yeah. Then to finally reveal what the fuck he actually did, which obviously would have been enough just if he raped somebody in general. Obviously that's just awful enough and you should have to pay for that. But then that whole twist in the ending, right? Yep. That's a twist. Cause I was actually upset for a while. I was like, really he just killed himself? Really? That's it? Right. I was getting a lot, and the film wasn't over and I was like, okay, so how are we gonna finish this? He just killed himself. I was hoping for a better me too. Pay off and I was like, oh fuck. Yeah. Which it is, I get it. And I'm glad they gave the stat, the statistic. One of the officers said 4% of suicides can be multiple gunshots because it's rare. Oh yeah. Very, very rare for you to pull the trigger more than once. Yeah. Yeah, it is. But it can happen. Well, obviously a gun is very sensitive and the trigger is very sensitive. Very sensitive. And a lot of... Obviously if you go like this and you jerk and you keep jerking. Exactly, because you're gonna have motor reflexes happening even after your brain function's gone. But obviously, if you're trying to commit suicide, don't shoot for your chest. Yeah, I was just gonna say, I don't think we're gonna give you guidelines on how to more efficiently do it. Man, and then you were like, okay, I mean, yeah, you raped somebody so you probably should have just killed your shelf in general anyway, because that's pretty bad. But then to that whole thing of like, who he raped. Who he raped was his brother's daughter. Right. And I saw some theories in comments. Some people thought he had an affair with his brother's wife and it was actually his daughter. I don't know if that's true. I didn't pick up on it. That's a good theory. They gave some... Interesting theory. Like some evidence of... Bad enough it's his niece. Yes. But the fact that what he did and then what Joju, the other twin did, and you're like, yeah, how can he ever meet his daughter knowing the person that raped her looked just like him? Right. And it was his brother. Right. It's like, how can I show her my face because every time she sees my face... It's gonna be pain. It's gonna be the face of her rapist. Yes. Yeah. It's a great twist. Yeah, because you're like, you understand it. Yeah. Obviously. And it also like any good character study you get nature versus nurture. It might be both. Yeah, and it may be both because you get to see of the two boys, the one who got the more crap end of the deal is Vinod and how certain things shape us. And is, was he the way he was more because that's just his nature or was it more because of the brokenness and the pain he went through? Which I found... Might be both. Yeah, one of the most critical moments for the character and I'd love to talk to Jojo George about this is that moment where his future girl, he looks like he's gonna rape her. And he chooses not to. That's a critical, really important moment for that character who I think at that point, I mean, even when he's with her, he says I'm filthy. And she doesn't say, no, you're not. Interestingly. She knows. Very well written. The character development of these brothers, but especially, I think this story is about, this is Vinod's story, is exceptionally well created. Yeah, I think, and I saw some people that were kind of like, why give him the love interest? Because obviously we had seen that he, at least at that point, was accused of raping somebody. And then, but then the cops that they investigated and who knows what that means. Yeah, you really go down that lane of why the couple didn't say anything or anything like that. Why do you think? Because I have a strong feeling as to why he had a love interest. Well, no, I know why, because they wanted you to feel for him. They wanted you to have him a more of a gray feeling. Absolutely. This is an evil rapist, even though he is. He is, however, it's. It wasn't like a sociopath kind of. It's one of the best things about the way the writing and the acting in the Dahmer series on Netflix is so good because it takes you into the mind of someone who did some of the most extraordinarily evil acts in modern human history. Yet, it's not, there is no human being that even a sociopath is not just pure evil. And there's a level of, it's not necessarily empathy, but there, but for the grace of God, go I. And that were I in that circumstance, what would I have done? And you never know until you're in it. You truly would never know. It's just like you, I have a fight or flight reflex. You don't know that till you're in a situation that demands you to do it without thinking where you have to fight or flight. You won't know till you're in it. And unless you have gone through what that character went through, you don't know if you would be that. I'd like to hope I would never do any of those kinds of things, but at the same time, and that's to me, the reason for the love interest is to show you that it is gray and that people, even the most abased person has some aspect of them that could be redeeming, which makes him, his death, it wouldn't be a tragedy. It would be justice to see just a purely evil guy kill himself and be like, yeah, good. Where's the rest of them? Kill them too. But for him, there's tragedy to it. Yeah, it was tragedy, and you saw the justice because you're like, yeah, of course, he writes. It's karma, it's his niece, right? Which one thing that I thought was a little convenient that he saw his niece, she was performing, it was on the TV at the end. Little convenient. I forgave it, I was like, that's fine. Me too. That could happen, sure, it could happen. But it was just, it had been convenient there at the end. But you totally understood it, because you're like. He can't escape that. And I don't think, because he wasn't, I don't think he was thinking about killing himself before that happened. No, at all. No. But then once it happened, so you saw, obviously he probably, hopefully, grapples with the evil that he did every single day. I think he'd been trying to run away from it forever. And that just for him was, I will never escape this. And what will my brother do? What will my wife do? I will never escape this, I don't deserve to live. Now, the thing I would have changed, I loved the payoff at the very, very end. I would have left, I would have ended the film with all of the payoff. I wouldn't have revealed the suicide as simply as it was revealed. I kind of felt let down, like you said earlier on about, oh, he just killed himself. I was expecting a little bit of a better payoff than that. But if it had been part of that final, the total payoff where he's looking in the mirror and he was gonna realize he's not, I would have loved to have seen it just all and one fell hammer at the end. Just edit it a little differently. Yeah, just, that's my own personal preference. My thing was, and I didn't really have an issue with that part, cause I liked, I loved the mirror aspect. Oh, I thought that was great. Well acted, very well acted by Joju and obviously well shot by the cinematographer and the director there. Said so much with no lines. Yeah, it was a really unique thing to do there at the end too. So I enjoyed that. The thing I would have changed was, I'm not a huge fan of flashbacks and there was just a lot of them to tell the story. And so I think I would have maybe just preferred maybe a little less of that. Those don't bother me. Yeah, it's just not as... How did you feel watching Godfather part two? That's half of that film is told in flashback. I know. I haven't seen that film since I was probably 15 though. Okay. And so I might have a different feel. You probably would have a different feel now. It's glorious. I mean, 15's probably way too young to see that film anyway but I did. My grandpa made me watch Godfather one and two when I was seven years old. But I mean, overall, I thought this was an A film. If I would give it a grade, I'd probably give it an A minus. Yeah, I would too. I think it's well cut. I think there was a good payoff in the end. Fantastic performances. By everybody. Very Mali-Alam in terms of just obviously acting and story driven. And somebody gets upset with me whenever we say that. I'm like, that's not all that's there. Because somebody's like, you're negating the fact that there's amazing cinematography and I'm not. No. Because there is. Yeah. My two favorite things are the fact that it's always really good acting and really good story. And there's obviously usually always really good cinematography as well. And sometimes it's more stand out-ish than others. But like the last Mali-Alam film of... Yeah. I mean, the three favorite, I mean, I don't have to think about it. Three favorite films that we've watched this year, probably all three of Mali-Alam's right now. This one, The Associates, even though that didn't come out this year. And then LGPs. Kuti would probably be right behind that. But the difference, for example, this one is so much more... It's simpler than, you know... The Associates. Well, and LJP, man. Yeah, yeah. LJP is as high a cinematic IQ. And it's not that he's showing it off. He's just that cinematically... The Man's a Genius cinematically. So you, to really deeply appreciate him, you have to have a very broad and long understanding of cinematic storytelling. Whereas this doesn't require that. You don't need to have that. That's just who he is. Just like Christopher Nolan's Christopher Nolan. Not everybody has to be a Christopher Nolan. But this one has an accessibility to it that I think. I think a lot of people could see any LJP film and walk away going, I don't know what that was about. I don't get that at all. Versus this one, I think most people would watch this and absolutely track the whole way through. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, that thought a fantastic film. Let us know what you thought about the film. If you liked it, if you didn't like it. And show Joe George, man. Let us know in the comments below. I'd love to talk to Joji George at some point. I don't think we've talked to any Mali-Ellum actors outside of LJP, but he's a director. I don't have a lot of context, so if anybody does, please let me know. There's a bunch of Mali-Ellum actors I would love to talk to. Let us know what the next Mali-Ellum film that we should watch is down below.