 How many kirtas do you own? I make four. Maybe five? Don't act like you're not impressed. Stupid reaction is tuning in for the. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Reaction. It's Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juice and content. It's so juicy. Sometimes separately, but most times together. Most times together, but sometimes it does. It's an interesting experience. If you haven't had it, you should try it. And they both says on Patreon, follow official Twitter, count ring the bell. We hope for them location. Ow! Today, hey, we are doing a movie review. Yep. It's a really loud camera. Our first film from Assam. I know it's quite a small film industry, but we told you we don't care what film industry it's from. We just want to see if we want to represent everybody and we want to see good cinema. So we saw, what did we see, Rick? Amis. Amis. How do you pronounce it? Which on IMDB it says ravening? That doesn't make sense. No, because I'm pretty sure it means non-veg. Yeah, I think literally it means meat. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. I don't know what ravening is. Weird. But yes, it's a drama fantasy horror. I don't really want to read the synopsis, because it kind of gives stuff away. So we don't like to do non-spoilers, but I would say go watch this film and come back if you don't want to be spoiled. Yeah, because we've got to talk about everything that's in the thing. And truly, guys, do yourself a favor. Put pause, watch it. It's a short film. And then come back and see the review. OK, so, Rick, initial thoughts. Freaking low. Oh my god, it's so good. It's so freaking spectacularly good. Oh my god. It is. I've been bottling this up since I watched it last night. I know. I'm like, I wanted to post about it on Instagram. I just wanted the save review coming, but I didn't want to give anything away. This is an absolutely brilliant movie. If you haven't seen it yet, if you're still here, once again, stop. Go watch it and come back. We just told you it's amazing, OK? That's what you need to know. Go watch it. Don't go in knowing anything. That's what I want you to know. Yes. Anyways, but yes, it was. This movie deserves you. If you haven't seen it, this movie, like all stories, because that's my slogan, let the movie tell the story. This movie deserves the creators of this film. They deserve you to go in blind and let this thing unfold before your very eyes as you experience the film yourself without spoilers. So we're assuming you've seen it if you're still around, because now we're going to get into the meat of the review. But we know most of you haven't seen this, because it's from a small film industry and it's in a different language. Once again, as always, stop caring about subtitles and go watch films that are good films. And this is a very good film. And support good films no matter the region. It's India. It's cinema. The larger world of this is that we're talking about a great movie. This is not India. This is not a sum. This is the world of the motion picture. And this thing is great. Yeah, so I want to thank Anyard Khan. Obviously he didn't do anything with it, but he kind of, it was, in the trailer we watched, it was presented by, because he saw this and was like, more people need to see it. So he basically backed it. And no, no wonder why. Yeah, you could tell watching the film, why Anyard Khan, she outloves it. But anyway, let's get into the film. Directed and written by, say his name for me, Rick. Directed and written by, oh, hold on, I got to remove two things here that are blocking my screen. Directed and written by Bhaskar Hazarika, who I believe this was- It's first or second. Yeah, first or second. Just like the last film we saw, we're talking about some pretty impressive directing debuts, man. I think the budget was like little to none as well. Yeah, I'm sure. I believe the budget was like almost an independent film. Yeah, I'm sure. Style of budget. And I don't think a lot of the actors are known for anything either. They're not. The two stars were what you called debutants. I think they had done some work before, so this wasn't like an introducing, like never acted before, but I don't think they'd done anything remotely close. This was like their big screen debut, yes. Which is why it's so impressive, because one, there was very little thing. There was a few things acting wise that I didn't enjoy, but it wasn't anything huge and it wasn't from the main people. So I thought the two main people were very, very believable and also just a beautiful, thanks to the testament to the directing and the casting of it, a beautiful, weird pairing. Because that's how I just saw this movie. A very beautiful, warped, sadistic love story. Yeah, I would, I don't like the title of it. I wouldn't have called it meat. I would have maybe, I maybe would have called it flesh, a love story. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, but yeah, it's weird because it, there's so many different areas to where you're like, oh my God, okay. So there's this young guy and he's just weird. He loves meat, weird. It's just, that's his thing. He loves meat, cool. Okay, you have this doctor. Now she's like forming a relationship with this guy and she's married, but then you come in and you see your husband is almost basically neglectful or a dick. And so is her sister. And so she's also having, well, she's more having an affair. This girl's having an emotional affair with this young guy. And then, and so there's a bunch of different stuff going on and you're like, okay, I don't know if they're good. I don't know if they're bad. I don't know if this girl's using him. And then he was just like, hey, I'm going to get a letter, eat my flesh. What? And you saw it coming the whole time, but like I didn't see that part coming. I didn't see like him wanting to get it out. I thought they were going to get to the point where they just wanted to like together eat a human. But what made it so beautiful is that, that's not where it went. It went like, this is their sex. Their sex is him taking meat out of him and her eating it. Yeah, he literally, he was literally trying to figure out a way. How do I, how do I get inside of her without violating the relationship because she's a married woman. So I need, I need, you know, he's got that. He's in love with her. He's smelling her clothes. He's dreaming about her. And he's moving toward the direction of I want to make love to this woman. So I can't get inside her that way. How can I get my meat? It is so. So warped and I love it. It's so warped and wonderful. And cause I wrote, I wrote a little paragraph as I am, as I am liking to do, right? And so I wrote, first of all, there's so many, I'll just say it. This is an absolutely brilliant film for me in the same league with Parasite. And I actually liked this one better than Parasite. Right after the end, I said, this is more creative and unique than Parasite. Yeah, more creative than Parasite. I like this film. And we love Parasite, by the way. And we love Parasite. Parasite is a wonderful motion picture. I like this one better. And it's depicting, the thing that's so brilliant about this on so many levels is it's depicting multiple moral truths at once. And it's doing so with a cinematic intelligence I wish was more present in cinema as a whole. Anyone who makes the mistake of thinking this is primarily a statement about meat eating controversies of the depicted region, which is something I know exists and know nothing about. They miss the larger genius of the film because lessons like you are what you eat and immorality slowly eats at you and forbidden fruit tastes good. And we all have skeletons in our claws. That's just some of them have a little bit more meat on their bones. Those are all over the place. And that's just a few of the tasty morsels this film presents in an allegorical and metaphorical smorgasbord of cannibalistic delights. Your synopsis, as of late, have been really good, Rick. Thank you. Thank you. You're spending a lot of time on them, I can see. They're good. Yeah. That's truly, I only, as you know, I only will write something like that if I feel a film is really, really worthy and it evokes and draws that out of me. Like the last film we watched, it's just, I can't say enough about how good the movie is. And I knew you'd love it. Oh yeah, I loved it immediately. Thank you guys for recommending it to us. And I know a lot of people still haven't seen it and I'm hoping this will help. Please. From this review, I'm hoping that at least some Indians go see it as well because it's worthy of being seen. But yeah, there's so many things I loved about it in terms of the twists and turns it took and also the complexities that it had. I loved that at the beginning. It almost told the entire story because she obviously went to his friend's house who was sick and his stomach hurt. And she said right at the beginning, she said it wasn't the meat that caused your stomach. It was the gluttony. And that's essentially what happened to her. Right, yeah. Yeah, there's little things like that all over. It was the gluttony of that she just kept wanting more and more and more and that they were like, okay, let's kill somebody now. Yeah. Is it incredible that it went that far? Yeah, even things like, so okay, so like my notes at the very beginning were very straightforward because the film is very straightforward at first. So I wrote, oh, he has a girlfriend, she's married. Hmm, I'm just straightforward. And then it got to the point, when you stay with the film, everything is either an allegory or a metaphor, even to the point when he vomits after he eats her. Yeah. That wasn't about him getting physically, he rejected her. Yeah. She was emotionally hurt because she was literally rejected. Yeah. It's just so freaking smart. It basically took normal relationship stuff and just took out the sex and added cannibalism. Yes. Which is brilliant. But the other thing that it did that I love, and here's one example I'm gonna give technically that points to everything else about this film that I love the most, which is this. So I noticed early on the detail that the director took to making sure sound was, there were so many little depictions of things, example like that scene you just said when she went to go see the guy who was sick, right? Yeah. There was intestinal grumblings and moanings going on that sounded legitimate. Yeah. Little details like that throughout later on, she's pressing into the stomach of a person and you're getting all of those sounds. Then you also got the sounds of the food cooking, just these tiny little beautiful perfect things in the sound and the score that was an exact compliment to all of the other little things that were going on like as much as this is a larger story about obsession and lust and gluttony, it's also a story depicting about the power of the little things in intimacy, something as small as a smiley face in a text, something as little as the brushing of a finger. Like I love the fact, I went, oh my goodness, at the end when they had this moment. Because they've been waiting for that. Yeah, I wanna talk about the ending because I love, at first I love the entire film and then right when the police started getting involved and they started coming in and they were wrapping everything up and I was like, oh shit, God damn it. I was like, okay, why'd you have to ruin such a great film by like, okay, I get it. We're gonna wrap it up. Like cool, but I loved that at the end that shot made it perfect. It did. That end shot made it perfect because it showed that they actually loved each other because for a while you thought and you felt bad for the guy because you're like, okay, now she's using you. Right. She doesn't care about you. She now just wants your flesh because that's what she's gotten the taste for and you're just like, I don't wanna see you sad so you're like, here have more of my flesh and so he was like limping around and all that cause and you started feeling really bad even though he's the one that initiated it, she started using him and you didn't know if also the entire time it was almost that relationship let her sister or friend said that you're leading them on and you're just using them to eat good food and get that relationship that you don't have with your husband. Right. But in the end that shot showed I believe that they actually really loved each other in the end and I thought that was a nice wrap up and a beautiful end shot for the film. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you did this but I'm looking at the runtime on my thing as it's clicking down and I'm realizing there's only 10 minutes left in the film and I'm thinking, how are you gonna wrap this up without it being ruined? It was like, there's been many movies I've watched like that and I was like, please don't ruin this. It's been so great. Please don't ruin this. It's been so great. And just yeah, shout outs to Lima Das I believe is the name of the actress who plays Namali, the main woman. Is that, and then the young man is portrayed by Argadip, is that Barua, I believe? Yeah, I just thought they were both great. I thought everybody in the film did really good. The only one I had a problem with was the husband. I didn't think he was particularly strong. But it didn't bother me, but there wasn't, yeah. It didn't ruin the film or anything but that was one of my only gripes. Outside of, obviously I think one of the things that Parasite had going for it over this is Parasite had more money behind it because Bong Joon Ho, he has a name. People know the name Bong Joon Ho. And so he had a lot more cinematography and beautiful shots. This is like almost bare bones, like student film type. Exactly, yeah. In terms of the amount, like he just got a camera and he's like, okay, go stand over there. And there's gonna be cars passing. You can't shut down the street. At least that's what it looks like. I can't tell if that's actually what it is. But that's what it looked like. And so the quality of the film wasn't as good as like a Parasite, but it wasn't like a bad quality. That's not what I'm saying. It's just, that's the big difference. Like you'll see beautiful cinematography. You're not really gonna see beautiful cinematography in this because beautiful cinematography often takes money as well. 100%, and that's actually one of the things why I am more impressed with this than I was with Parasite. Because let's just face it that yes, he is a, you know, Parasite like all of his films, we haven't seen him, but I've seen highlights of them. He's a mathematician with his cinematography. I mean, his symmetry is extraordinary. But yeah, I guarantee he had a much higher quality camera and he had more cameras than one to use with much bigger production team. And I felt that this director and this crew did the absolute most they could with the little that they had. One of my favorite films I've ever seen out of India. And it would be one of my favorite films because I just, I think this could be sent to an American and they would thoroughly enjoy it without seeing any other Indian cinema. Oh yeah, it's on my list of my favorite all time films now, you know, like Gangs of Wasiper and Lunchbox. And this is one of my favorite, not just Indian films. This is one of my favorite films and what made it so wonderful. You know, when we're watching, when we're watching any film, we're rooting for it guys. We want the film, we don't want a film to be bad. Oh no, I value my time. Yeah, value our time and value the art form. And especially when we're setting foot for the first time in a region, we know that everybody in that region and that industry is wanting to present their best foot forward. And man, Assam just knocked it out of the park. 100%. So that was beautiful. I'm hoping you're still not here if you haven't seen it because obviously you're spoiled now and that's awful. But let us know more from Assam. We'll watch it anyway. Let us know more from Assam that we should watch anything else from this director as well. I don't know if he's doing anything else right now. But he should. I hope Anurag takes him under his wing. Yeah, and become one of his disciples, 100%. So let us know more from Assam that we should be looking at and other stuff like that because this was great. Wonderful. I need some meat. Our stupid reactions tune in for the...