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You know, that hole of the tree falling in the woods and if anyone was there, would it make a sound? There was no sound prior to the talkies. Anywhere on earth. As a kid, you don't... I thought for a while, like, I thought they invented color at a certain time. Yeah. Like, there was no color. No, in the world. In the world. No, everything was in black and white. It's true. Everybody was racist. Yep. But that's true. But today, we are doing a movie review of the... Hindi language film. I believe it's Hindi, English, I guess. Film Omurta. Directed by Hansel... Say his name. Mehta. Hansel Mehta, who we've... I think we've actually seen one of his, but we've seen a bunch of trailers. Yes. We know of him. We've all heard of him. Because Aligarh, the only one we've seen. But we've seen the trailers for Shahid. And he also did a scam, 19... Something like that. The hit show that everybody's reading about. Everybody's telling us about. But so we know him a lot. He was apparently the screenwriter as well. And then starring basically Rajkumar Rao. Right. And when we saw this, we're very excited to see it. Yes. Because a very interesting concept. Yes. Of having a terrorist as your focal point. Yeah. And I can't think of another film that does that. But anyways, this will be a 100 Sponsored review. This is how we do things here. If you haven't watched it, it's real short. Go watch it. Come back. If you'd like to be spoiled, don't watch it. Get spoiled. Because we're about to. Yes. Spanky in the butt. Great initial thoughts. I had two things that I liked and two things that I didn't like. One that is unacceptable. Gotcha. So two things I liked. One thing I don't like. And one thing that is unacceptable. Gotcha. OK. But overall, did you enjoy the film though? I stayed engaged throughout. OK. Yeah. I stayed engaged throughout the whole movie. This is how I liked the film. There was things that kept me from loving the film. The one thing that is unacceptable for me causes me to not like the film as a whole. Yeah. OK. Gotcha. If that was not in it, I would really like it. OK. A lot. What is it? Just go ahead and talk about it. Flat out retold history. It did not happen like that at all. Interesting. What actually happened to it? He was beheaded on camera, live, filmed in front of everybody. He wasn't running away and got shot and then was beheaded after the fact. He was talking into camera and had his head severed off live, alive, as it was happening. Gotcha. I understand. Then he was cut up into 24 pieces. Gotcha. And the trial is still going on right now because his family doesn't want them to release him who actually didn't do it. He's depicted as doing it in the film, but he isn't the one who used the blade and the guy who actually took his head off is in Guantanamo Bay, admits to it, says with his righteous right hand, he took Daniel Pearl's head off. So not only did we not get the actual thing that happened to Daniel Pearl, we're shown who did it and he actually isn't the guy who did it. Interesting. So that's why I don't like it. It's a total retelling of history of something that's really important that happened to an innocent man that should have never happened to him. Yeah. So, OK. I understand. I didn't have time to look up what actually happened. I remember the events. I just, this was right after 9-11. It was early 2002. Everybody was praying for him to be returned home. His family lives here in Encino. And when the news hit that there was a live video of his decapitation, it was... Did you know that what this was disturbing? Did you know that Omarto was about this event? About this guy? Yeah, this guy. I knew it was about this guy who was part of that event. Gotcha. I didn't know his story other than the fact that he was connected to Al Qaeda who also was linked to 9-11, but that he was central in this story of Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and killing. But I didn't know what role he played. OK. So outside, now that we got past the old moment that Rick doesn't like the retelling, I understand. I agree. But outside of that, what did you enjoy about the film? Yeah. I have one other thing I'll dislike, and I guarantee it's the same thing he's like. Let's just get this out of the way. Hey, directors, hire us. Hey, directors, it's 10 times more expensive to hire professional SAG actors who have training and know what they're doing. It's worth it. You probably would spend enough money for the proper lens. You need to invest in proper actors because it's inexcusable. They suck. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's one of the reasons I wasn't too unhappy that Daniel Pearl died. Not the real one, the one in the film. Because I wanted him off screen. It was, yeah. Because normally, we've seen bad white actors before. And you mean all the time? All the time, maybe in cinema, because we know why. We've talked to directors, we've talked to castings. It's because they're expensive to get. They usually just find either locals, and there's not a lot. Or they find tourists. I don't know what they did for this, but they were all terrible, and there was a lot of them. A lot of them, and just as a whole. That's one ensemble surrounding Raj Kamar Rao, for the most part, wasn't good. My guess is Hansel didn't have the budget. And also, my bet is he got censored the hell out of this film. I know there's scenes that were cut that they didn't allow. That could have been one of the reasons why it wasn't the real telling. Who knows? I don't know. No. That was a choice he did in the writing. That wasn't just something got cut. That was a straight up retelling of what happened. You don't know. I understand it's a retelling, but you don't know that that's what happened or not. But anyways. Yeah, the wide actors was the thing that definitely kept me from loving it. Like I said, I liked it. And a lot of it has to go to Raj Kamar Rao. That's what I like the most. I equally liked. I think he did write the director, which is the fact that we got a story about a terrorist that doesn't demonize him as a person, makes him a complex person, and the people around him not stereotyped into this pure sociopathic, definitive, evil negativity. I would love to talk to Raj Kamar Rao about what it was like to have to. It's like. I think he said it was hard for him to play a character. He could not. I think I saw this quote. He could not relate with. Well, it's like Forrest Whitaker playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. And he said, there is nothing about that man that I like or want to be like. You can't judge him as an actor. But I can't judge him as an actor. I had to put myself in him and find him in me. And he won an Oscar for it. Because he did a great job of taking an evil person. And that's the thing is that I bet at certain times there would have been moments you were hanging around Hitler and would have laughed at a joke. Because he was human. Yep. Evil, but human. One of my favorite parts. I would say I love Raj Kamar. I thought Raj Kamar did a phenomenal job. It was actually difficult for me at the beginning to get into his accent. Because I thought you were going to say something else. No, but I thought because I was trying to figure out where he was from. Because he had this Indian or Pakistani accent. But then sometimes got into British. I think they explained it that he was born in Britain. No, he was born here but raised in London. So that would I explain the kind of mixed. Right. And also I don't know what this gentleman sounded like either. No idea. But it took me a little bit to get into. Because I kept hearing his accent. I'm like, OK, are you losing it? But then I was like, OK, that's probably what happened. So I really enjoyed that. But I did equally enjoy the fact that I've never seen a director try this before. I was trying to rack my brain because the film really, for me, became a 9-11 terrorist. Yeah, the film became engrossing for me right at the midway point when he went to the camps to start to train. Because I was going to see if he was going to take a turn on this and start to stereotype it. And he never did, which is my favorite thing really about the film. Because I always go back to this. When Clint Eastwood did the Tales of Our Fathers and the Tales of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, and then Flags of Iwo Jima, where he told the same battle from the Japanese and the American perspective, that's the last time I remember somebody showing us the enemy and causing us to find a way to empathize with them in some way. It's difficult because, one, you have to do it so carefully to not make it seem like you're praising them. But once again, you have to tell their story. And you have to find, as I'm sure Rajkumar Rao did, you have to find the justifications that granted are now radical, extremist, transferred. But underneath that is a two-fold motivation of my faith in God and my wanting to make right what's being done wrong to my people and focus on that and that, for them, the end justifies the means. And so you have to get past the barbarism and the evil of killing innocent people and really try to get into the rationale, which is insane. It's comparable to getting into the rationale of a serial killer or anybody who does something that is just sociopathic in nature without judging the character. Yeah, that's the best thing in the movie and I want to praise Hansel for that because I appreciate him. We appreciate him in the one film we saw and we know his reputation as well of telling stories and pushing the boundaries, especially for Indian cinema. And what you said a second, if for example, if for some reason he was told at the outset, you cannot depict what really happened to Daniel Pro. It could be, like I said, we all know. If that was the case, if censorship said if you're gonna make this film the ending, you cannot depict what actually took place and you can't even hint at what actually took place. You have to do it in a different way. Maybe legally they couldn't as well. Then don't make the movie. Just don't make the movie because what you're doing is now there are going to be people who don't know the story and they're going to think this is what happened to Daniel Pro. And that's an injustice to what happened to Daniel Pro. I think the bigger injustice is thinking he was a terrible actor. Sorry. But back to what he did that is really incredible in the direction and what Raj Kamau did with the character is one of the reasons, you know, if I were to recommend the film, I would let people know in advance. It's a spoiler alert. Daniel Pearl, it's everybody knows the story. Daniel Pearl is killed. So sorry, you're gonna need to know that. That's not how it happened. Please look up what happened. It's an ongoing thing right now in Pakistan because what you, it's one of the proverbial throwing out the baby with the bathwater things. I would have a hard time recommending it but Raj Kamau Rao in the direction of this from the vantage point of terrorists is so rare. Yeah. And it's a hard one for me. I'd love to see more of it because I'm, I don't think we are those people that think that because some people think like if you tell a story of Ted Bundy, you're glorifying serial killers, right? Which I guess if you do it wrong, it depends on how you do it. It could be, sure, right? Right. But I think every story deserves to be told. Agreed. And just like I would love a authentic story about Hitler. Yes, an authentic one. And his life. Correct. And what led to him, not him just, he was always this, he could have been, I don't know him, but that's not how you should portray him. You should portray him as a human. Correct. Who had feelings and you should, which they did, make you empathize with them at points, these evil, evil people. Yes. Not what they do, but like, you were like, you can kind of understand what you can with Joker. You can kind of understand a little bit of their point of view. I can understand, yeah, a lot of their point of view. But it's like, obviously you don't condone it, you don't agree with it. Exactly. But if the story is told correctly, it was here in terms of the terrorist side of it. Correct. You should empathize with this character because they were a human. You shouldn't agree with them. You should, they're evil, evil people. Yeah. That's why it's so difficult. But I heard a story, I don't know if this is true or not, I heard a story that Rajkumar Rao, while he was making this film, where when they had the terror attacks in Paris, which was a month after Alexis had just gotten back from Paris, so that sucked. For her, on a personal level, to have just been in those places. But he, at the time, remembered watching it and actually realizing as he watched it, because he was in character, that he had to check himself because his character was appreciating it. His mindset, watching it as he was being this character, he realized, wow, must have been. And because there is, again, the end doesn't justify the means, but you realize that this man, and I believe this is probably true about the man, it's true about what happens to most people who become radicalized and there's radicalization in every religious belief on the planet. 100%. Every single one of them. But it comes from a place of wanting to do good. Muslims, have they been mistreated? Yeah. Yeah. Have there been injustices done to them with the hands of governments? Yeah. Yeah. Are innocents, like women and children, having things done to them that are unspeakable? Yeah. Does that make them outraged? Are things being done that are insulting to what they hold as their dearest beliefs? That's what the director and Rajmar Rao tapped into, which is my favorite thing about the film. Once again, we're not condoning any of it. That I know. But what we're saying, you should be able to emphasize, just like if there was a film about a KKK member. Right. You have to be able to, even though they're freaking evil and crazy, you have to be able to empathize with them a little bit. And they did in, what was it? Three billboards? Was it three billboards? Absolutely. It was like three billboards, right? Yes. He was racist. Yes. And they made you empathize with a racist. With a racist. Yes. And Leo, I always go back to Leo and Django on chain. Oh, Django, yeah. How he hated playing that character, but you can't, people don't judge themselves and they're always feeling justified or what they believe, no matter how evil they may be. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And we need more roles like that, that depict the truth about what they did and it's evil, but not blossom over as just, they were nothing but this robotic killing machine who had no other motive. Like they did to the white people in this film. Yeah. Exactly. No. I'm never gonna get over that. Everything I do is evil. I'm just evil. Unless you're doing, you know, then that can be just your evil. But yeah, I definitely agree. I liked the film. There were things that kept me from loving, kind of similar different reasons, but like death in the gunge. Like I could have loved it, but there were stuff that kept me from that. But I'm not saying it's a bad film. No, it's not a bad film except for the ending and with the lie about Daniel Pearl. But I do appreciate a lot of what happened in terms of acting of Rajkumar Rao, not the other people who I've mentioned before. And I appreciate Hansel and his willingness to, I would love, we're gonna see a bunch of his work in the future because I love the fact that he takes risks. We saw it in this, we saw it, we loved Algira, right? Aligarh. Aligarh. Yeah, loved that. He obviously appreciates talent in terms of acting and gives them a ton to work with. And creative, unique characters, especially for Indian cinema. So I really, really appreciate that. So yeah, let us know what's next for him. Obviously Rajkumar Rao just seems to be in everything. Yeah, he's just, he's always solid. Which makes sense because he's a really talented actor who's very versatile. Very versatile. He's like a Swiss army knife. He can be whatever you want him to be. We just saw him in Ludo, now we see him in this. We've seen him in Gang, like he's Newton. He really, he is an actor that really can just be put into any role and he's probably just gonna give you something great every single time. And in a film like this, do you know what this reminds, this will be a weird comparison, possibly. Cause this is better as a whole, but the way that a movie is carried, Tom Hardy carried Viper. Oh yeah. Rajkumar Rao carries Omurta as far in him. I'm sorry, I said Viper. Venom. He carried Venom. Yeah. That's a weaker film. Yeah. Comparatively. This was a much better directed film. Yeah, much better directed film than that film. But yeah, I understand what you're saying. Yep. So let us know what's the next Hansel film we should watch and obviously Rajkumar Rao and the next film in general we should watch down below.