 you know the origin of the dork uh infected hair on an elephant's butt right whale penis that that dork was an infected hair on an elephant's butt now that's your mom back to our stupid rx's video it's up Corbin i'm rekt you false instagram twitter for twitter i think it's on patreon phones yeah uh two day we're doing of the uh new uh 2021 film perfect pride movie i have no i know that does nothing to do with that at all uh we will try to get to something this month that we should do this uh i'm going to try uh i'm asking the team you like them i wasn't made by stupid people um and today we are doing a malayalam movie review of the film kala i believe it's called kala yes kala kala kala a uh psychological thriller that revolves around saji saji who faces an intriguing conflict with the many layered shades of human behavior ooh that's a very cryptic very very i like that better though than than giving it away always uh i don't know if you could give this film away honestly but uh the directed by roe hith vs i agree pronounce that correct uh i want to give shout outs to the cinematographer his name is say it please uh keel george and editor and the editor uh shaman choco yeah forgive me if those are mispronounced composer is don vincent that's what it looks like wow that's yeah don vincent is he white or is he just christian no um anyways uh starring tovino thomas and then uh sumesh moir uh lao and divya divya palai yeah and uh promod villianad yeah again forgive me for sorry about that uh but it's a malayalam film in malayalam has just keep putting out new films like they're like the only industry that's like covid what keeps putting out content i mean more power to the man um but uh so if you haven't watched it go watch i believe it was on netflix or amazon amazon it was on amazon yeah if you're an amazon prime member in the states it comes with your subscription yeah what does that work like in india though do you know no idea yeah i don't know drony if she has yeah prime or not but rick your initial thoughts please uh and we'll do our best and let you know and have a front half without spoils oh yeah the second half because this is a new release yes many of you haven't seen it we'll let you know if we get to spoil this yeah yeah yeah um it's it's from cinematically mm-hmm it's a it's a freaking like i don't know what the word is uh that i'm looking for i may have written it down in my my phone it's a taku level yeah even even more than that i think i put down that it's a in fact let me get hold up cinematography i put down the first thing i said because it was noticeable right from the very beginning um it is a hold it there it is um but isn't your emails yeah it's because that way i don't have to deal with my oh yeah wi-fi situation around uh a master class oh yeah i knew it i said it seven minutes in i said this thing's gonna be a master class in cinematography cinematography editing yeah both yeah cinematography and editing however for me it became all about style and very little substance for me um and if i missed some things because i know that this is very rooted in carola and the history of people there in the land and i'm sure there's some things that i may have missed in that regard but i don't know how easily i might have obtained them because it was so difficult for me as it went on to disassociate myself from the fact that i didn't care about what was going on or who was doing it i was fun watching the visuals but there were so many other things that strained credulity for me and i didn't see any allegorical or metaphorical connectivity to it that for me ultimately it was like if you want to watch cinematography and editing that'll keep you spellbound and you'll be astonished even though this guy really likes mel Gibson i think um uh then you're in for a treat if you want to watch that as far as story connectivity with people and caring about them and even something metaphorical for me it got lost for me that was just style overall yeah i i did actually i was actually in gross probably because a lot of the visual stuff man it was it's it's unbelievable and i was i was intrigued as as to what the story was and i do agree it's it's it's definitely a mixed bag for me although i did enjoy the film uh in terms of like it was just it was very enjoyable to watch i mean what he put on screen and how they edited the the score as well yeah it was extremely unique the music goes very well with the visuals and uh and so i i liken a lot to jolly taku a lot of the story is about the message and it took me a minute to figure it out um but uh i think i i think i figured out well i'm sure there's a bunch i missed but the i think the overall message are they um story i don't know if the story is right word because it's actually a very simple story uh it's just i think i like it a jolly taku one with the visuals and the prominence of the thing is about the message i for lack of a better word of the film uh i did actually in terms of the beginning enjoy the relationship between the husband and the wife very very early the first like 20 minutes first 20 minutes when i'm showing their relationship i was i was anticipating based on that i even put in my notes show me dead i thought something was gonna happen to the wife or the son and we would watch vengeance take place yeah because they got me to care for the husband and the wife and the son but then quickly well i guess we're going into spoilers now yeah if you haven't watched it watch it i think you'll probably enjoy some parts of it you can probably have problems with other parts of it but i i think i don't know of you i think you'll overall enjoy it even though there are stuff that i think that i would probably do differently myself i think it's a crap shoot i think there's some of you that'll watch it and walk away from it liking it and some of you will be like me going like yeah no i didn't like it very much yeah and i i don't mind that because i think it leaves it up to the audience definitely that's a lot of questions up to the audience of answering certain things and i don't know if it answered every single question that even presented uh at all but we'll get into that as we get into the spoilers i just don't it's hard to discuss the rest of it yeah we gotta go into the spoilers now so spoiler time yeah i think the one obviously i love the overall style of the film it was very stylized very very style yes um about obviously in terms of one i thought the fight choreography was wonderful um no he doesn't agree uh but i thought the fight choreography was great i love the editing love the cinematography love the score over and i like the vfx as well i thought the vfx did very did the blood and all that kind of yeah they did very good with the visual effects in fact the cinematography i was like this is a candidate for like yeah some of the best of the year absolutely yeah a hundred percent um it took me a minute at the end because we'll get into that right now and then we'll get into the rest because i don't want to feel like you can't discuss the rest of it without discussing kind of the overall message the overall message um and i don't know if you have a theory or if you just were like i don't know what that was well i think part of it if not all of it is deeply rooted in the the the the whole thing in carola with the two people groups who got the land who it belonged to before and the the cast slash classism yeah that has gone on there yeah particularly at the end when he says to him now you know what it feels like and the whole symbolism love the dogs and the hogs yeah and i i think ultimately my take on it is going to be minimized and maybe even my appreciation because i'm i'm not as aware of the situation yeah i kind of took it almost as as the the i forget the younger actor's name the guy who was all animalistic yeah the animalistic demonized kind of that's all he did great character honestly i liked him a lot very stylized very very stylized yeah ultra style which i see i like when films do stuff that i i don't expect and so like i give a lot of grace to films that that kind of go out of the box and this film was oftentimes very out of the box with what it was trying to do but overall message he was the lower cast in terms of i don't even think it was just in carola specifically i think it's just all of india in terms of just their whole as long as cast has been around he was lower cast and this guy was not really up up cast but i know that's above him above this gentleman is they kind of represented the two and so there was a lot of stuff about that and how how he sees him almost i think that's why he was very animalistic because the upper cast sees the lower cast sure animals his time and this director loved nature and animals like that was that questions i had i was like okay why are we focusing so much on and i think it was because of the just we're all kind of like jolly talk did a little bit yeah i think there's a lot of parallels that you could liken it to that in the same regard particularly the fact of the animalistic side and the fact that there's the representation of the animals and i think it's not coincidental that so much of this was taking place on the ground in the land because that's the central point about the fact that part of the separation is the fact that some people got this land and took it from the people that originally had it yeah and so obviously there's a lot of that obviously the beginning quote i believe oscar wild about great selfishness and um what was the exact quote do you remember yeah the the quote is i'll get it something along the lines of selfishness isn't i can tell exactly what it is because i i wrote it down i actually sent it to my friend who i was talking to and it hit at a very providential moment for me to send it to him we had just finished a conversation and i started the movie and then i sent him the quote and it says selfishness is not living as one wishes to live it's asking others to live as one wishes to live yeah and so there was a lot of stuff in it about you know you know how he beat him up uh and and stuff like that and then he went to the well and he was like i was gonna try to save you after he had already put him in the well to die and so he's like i came back to save you and you're still being a dick right like yeah missing the point yeah missing the point you put me in the well yeah and you killed my dog right uh as well purposely uh and so there was no there was no um i think defining good character in this uh on purpose obviously the um that like he made the the guy who was the supposed to be the lower caste extremely animalistic at time um and and then they just it it was so much fighting going on and it was excruciating that sometimes like oh we're still fighting and obviously i think that was once again the point message big part of messages they've always been doing this right and they probably will be for the foreseeable future and at the end when i thought like so what's gonna happen is he gonna kill him is he gonna what right and then he was like are you done mm-hmm okay you know how it feels now right and then he took his and so you there's a bunch of questions at the end that you kind of the director was like you you figure out what you think this means yeah and and there's stuff at the beginning that i don't know that i would have done he made it very tense in the beginning and i was like okay why is this tense i thought it was going a different direction at certain times yes and so there's some like some stuff that i probably would have done differently or either i missed why it was in there and so i like i said i don't think it was a perfect film by any stretch but overall i think i enjoyed it especially the filmmaking aspect of it similar to jelly taco obviously but when we right when we walked out of jelly top and i walked out when we watched it remember yeah we're like i didn't care about anybody but man that was yeah that was nice because because that was definitively yeah kind of film where it is just the director's medium yeah moving everything the way he wants it to be seen because he has an overall story and message he's going to convey that pretty much the whole movie becomes an analogy and i felt that that comparatively was a higher level kind of cinematic intelligence and i and i just mean that from the sense of example some of the things where that worked and this didn't for me was there was like at the beginning of the film i was looking at the time frame i'm like okay we're 40 minutes in and you've maintained this level of tension as if we're waiting for either a ghost or a bad guy or some other proverbial shoe to drop and it's not dropping yeah i think the dad said i felt somebody on my back one time yes and i was like is the wife of witch for a second i was like yeah and i think i think probably the message in that regard was that this is something that permeates more than just land this is something that permeates the very invisible realm here this is a spiritual as well as a physical battle that's taking place here however i found that the stylization was so strongly overshadowing everything that even to the point for example there were moments where smoke was coming out of his mouth you know with blood and smoke and there was a point where he turned and he had drool coming out of his mouth and he's kind of shaking with the drool coming out of his mouth rather than it be something that was either deeply real and believable and scary or ultra stylized to the point of me getting a message and what the visualization was it felt more like isn't this something really cool that we're doing with this visual stylization and i got pulled from caring about anybody because of it and actually thinking comparatively like the jelly katu the the symbolism and the metaphor and the allegory and the overall message for me became styled was more important than actual conveyance of the story and and the other thing that bothered me were moments like you see him snap his ankle but then he's walking like he sprained it yeah so for the rest of the time i'm like i know that was supposed to have been snapped and now the rest of the time he's walking which pulls me out of the believability of what i'm watching yeah i noticed that as well and i i don't know if they meant it to be like he kind of just popped it out of place because then he got caught in something and i don't know if it kind of pulled he pulled it back into place and i think that's what they were trying to convey but i did notice that as well absolutely uh but and then also i kind of attribute this almost to like john wick a little bit like a little bit of like uh how the oak want the dog thing obviously the dog anytime there's a dawn thing it's going to go back to and then obviously there's just a bunch of bunch of fighting that's only a little like no it was like no jelly taku like um um a little bit of john wick revenge they just keep fighting until something happens and then a family-ish drama kind of and obviously something with a big message uh overall but yeah there was definitely issues like that that i probably would have either just not done anything with the leg like broke a finger or something probably still got the same message or at least maintained it with a green screen over the ankle so that his leg is snapped the whole time and everywhere you watch him walk it's flopping around like a broken ankle does i would have loved that and for those of you who might not pick up on my mel Gibson reference um not only was so much of it very similar to some of the visualizations that Gibson does in apocalyptic but very reminiscent of apocalyptic oh yeah blood on leaves and the fighting and things of that nature but too straight up more than tips of the hat almost like yeah i'm borrowing that and hopefully nobody will notice from hacksaw ridge and passion of the christ so the hacksaw ridge moment is after the fighting sequence he takes the bucket of water and under the sunshine he pours the water on himself and you see all the blood and water washing off of his dirty body in slow mo well that's what happens in hacksaw after he's been up on the ridge he comes down and he pulls the thing and under sunlight pretty much exact angle and slow mo pan and then there's obviously the teardrop did you notice that the teardrop they're on the ground and from the lens in this film it's a raindrop oh yeah and you see the water come up and in and blur and drop and fall straight down the first time and only time in one of the biggest moments in the passion of the christ is that moment at the moment of jesus's death from the perspective of father god the raindrop comes down as if it was a tear from god yeah onto the ground and when i saw that i was like okay yeah that was straight out of the passion of christ but oh and we didn't talk about them i the the main actor i thought did well uh i the to say his name to vino thomas i enjoyed him obviously it was stylized but i didn't i didn't i didn't mind that very much uh if if you straight up from the beginning tell me it's going to be stylized then i i can get on board unless it's dev does that's not stylized that's just bad acting uh i enjoyed that like i said the their relationship i thought did really really well in the first what it was a 20 30 20 minutes of the film i actually was like invested in them i was i was hoping in that and the trailer actually led me to kind of feel as if this was an ensemble family thing and that they themselves were being oppressed and you would care about the family yeah so it it definitely took it a different direction yeah i think there's i think there's stuff that you can love and and not like about the film and it might be the director's intention when a lot of times when you make films like this you you know a lot of people are probably going to love everything you do especially when it's an experimental film yeah and as long as the director when is all said and done is happy with the outcome of it yeah and irrespective of what people are saying it's like i love that about quintin he said the way he writes a film is he first writes it out as a story and if he's content with it as a story that never becomes a movie and he's just happy that the story is as good as he wanted he's fine yeah but this would actually i think be in a lot of my final list of the end of the year so far in terms of cinematography question and a team absolutely a score maybe because this was a very unique score very unique and i thought he a little reminiscent of you know the animal stuff in in jolly taku of like nature and how you can hear a lot of the stuff and then also just very unique stuff that they put behind there was a shot and i don't know if it was a post-production thing or if they really did it in real time where he's walking the the um demon fighter guy right i'm sorry we can't calling his name but he's walking and we have him from the back and it's a shot on the ground and he's just got his left arm slightly bent as he's walking and the sun is coming straight through that hole symmetrically perfect i mean it is it i this is a movie where if someone's a dp or studying to be a dp that alone you'd say or editing you'd say just watch this for the cinematography yeah because it is it is a master class yeah in cinematography and editing i'd say it's worth it just for that regardless of if you ended up enjoying the overallness of it it's what you i don't think anybody can walk away because there's not loving the cinematography it's what propelled me through even i mean think about this i didn't really care about anybody or what was happening but i was enjoying watching the cinematography yeah you've got to have exceptional cinematography to keep me engaged to a story i'm not really interested in and people i'm not interested in that's how great the cinematography is so you know it's it's one of those films that's obviously not everybody's cup of tea but let us know it might be yours you might be yours and you can let us know what you thought about this film down below whether you liked it or not whether you think we're idiots as you always do or not of course maybe this where we're arrogant never know at all yeah but let us know what the next Malayalam film we should watch is they're coming in like yeah i'm sure there'll be another one releasing next week