 So I watched Portrait of the Lady on Fire for the first time. And? I'm mad that Parasite won over it. Is it not a magnificent motion picture? It's the best film from that year. It is an absolute. Was it nominated for best picture or was it only foreign? Only foreign and it is head and shoulders above Parasite. That's one of the best films of the last 15 years. That is a mistake. That film is magnificent. Every frame. Every frame of that film is beautiful. It's a hundred out of a hundred films. Yep. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Directions of Corbett. I'm happy. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks to Patreon, follow us on Twitter to subscribe and hit that like button. Yeah, that's, that's, that is, yeah. I was gobsmacked by that film. That, yeah. It is a beautiful. The performances. The ride-in. The, yeah, everything about that film was amazing. Yeah. And it, it's just one of those films I missed that year. Yeah. And I had always intended to get to it because I wanted to see it really bad. But the fact that it, one, didn't even, I get, Parasite was like this whole thing. But I don't even think that's Bong Joon-ho's best work. I've seen. No, Parasite's a good movie. It's a good movie. I felt like the craze for it was a bit. I'm not saying it's not. High. A good movie. Obviously Bong Joon-ho. I don't know if he can make a bad movie. Yeah. And it's, I think it deserved to be nominated and all that kind of stuff. Sure. Absolutely. But that film was, it was absolutely phenomenal. Yeah. Anyways, today we got a new trailer that just dropped and it's called Faraz. Faraz is for you. Faraz is for me. And it's actually a Hansel Mehta film who is the director of Shahid, Omurta, Scam, 19, blah, blah, blah. Yes. And few people know the owner of Facebook. Mehta. No. But it's, did he also, Article 15, did he direct Article 15? I don't know off the top of my head. I have a little bit of a member, if he did or not. But he's a fantastic director. Yep. One of the best. And I think it's something based off of a true story. I believe, I could be wrong, but let's just get into this. He tends to do stuff with a hard-hitting message. I gave your mom a hard-hitting message. Oh my God. Here we go. Parasite house. Oh! Standard night in America. What's about that one? Great line. Wow. Wow. So, it's not the Mumbai, is it the Mumbai attacks? No, that was 2008. Okay. Yeah. I thought it was at first when they were doing it, but it said that this was July 1, 2016 at the very front. Read this right here. It's based on the real-life terrorist attack that ravaged a Dhaka cafe. Paras follows events that unfold over one claustrophobic night molded into a heart-wrenching hostage drama, an untold heroic tale by a young boy who stood tall in the darkest times. Wow. Wow. And I'm particularly powerful. Particularly moved by the prospect that I think is clear from our menu we've been given that a big part of this is going to be what he said there at the end about the reclamation of Islam from radical extremists. Yeah. I want my Islam back. I want my Islam back. People like you. Yeah. That was a powerful line. That gave me chills at the end. I don't know. Obviously, we're not Muslim, but that's obviously from everything I've heard from actual Muslims, obviously. That's not what their religion ever teaches. Not what any religion really teaches. Right? Depending upon your interpretations of sacred scriptures. Yes. Correct. Just like when Christians shoot up places in the name of God. Exactly. Or if Hindu, they don't teach that violence in there. Those are extremists that decide to do... Take it. Yep. I don't do the idiocy. I don't know. It's the textual criticism idea and concept of the difference between exegesis and isegesis. If you exegete just text, you take it within context, and you take all of the who, what, where, when, and why, and you let it speak for yourself. When you isegite a text, you have... It sounds like isolated, but that's not what it means. You're taking a particular text out of the context of who, what, where, when, and why, and making it mean what you want it to mean now. Exactly. Absolutely. I'm very happy it's a Hansel Mehta production, because obviously everything we've seen is absolutely amazing. He's one of the best directors in all of India, and he always does stories that are important, and that show you different perspective. Like he's done the Omurta and... What was the other? Shahid. Shahid. Or terrorist-centric. Right. Partially from the point of view of the terrorist. Of the terrorist. Right. Which is a difficult thing to do. Yes. But needs to be told. Yes. But this one, I'm very happy because obviously with stuff like this, he literally just started going in and shooting, and he didn't cut away, and the bullets weren't like CGI'd. Right. It looked really good. And so that's one of our biggest gripes with the film of last year, Kejmer Files, right? People are always like, oh, they don't believe in the... That's literally nothing about that is why we didn't like that film. Correct. It was the filmmaking aspects of that film that we thought were poor. Right. That's what we thought was poor. Correct. Not the story. I was actually very happy. We got to know the story. We said that over and over again. But people don't listen, you know? No. But the fact that a story like this, you need to be punched in the face with the realities of what happened. Correct. Right. With the brutality of what really took place. You don't need to sugarcoat things because... Do not sugarcoat it. These people died. Exactly. Exactly. So you're doing them a disservice by not showing the gruesomeness that happened. It's why storming the beach and saving Private Ryan is as good as it is. Yeah. It's why Schindler's List is as good as it is, which thankfully the United Arab Emirates is now the first Arab nation to actually teach the Holocaust. Did you know that? I don't know. Yeah. So it just was announced about a week ago. They're the first Arab nation to teach the... Every other Arab nation does not teach about it. They will not teach about the Holocaust. Well... My concern about this film is that there will be too many people who drown out what could be the artistic excellence of it that should be the primary thing we talk about and the actual events that took place. Yeah. That there will be too many people who hold up a religious sentiment flag. Yeah. It will become offended rather than open to the prospect of what's being communicated artistically. Example, there's a lot of folks over here and in the UK her poster was banned. Demi Lovato's new album is called Holy Fuck. Have you seen the cover? No. She's in bondage on a cross. Okay. And it's called Holy Fuck. Nice. Okay. I like it. Okay. Just because, as Ricky Gervais says, just because you're offended doesn't make you right. You don't have to listen to the music. You don't have to look at the imagery. And my concern, just like with that album, I haven't heard her album. Ashley and Alexis have heard it. They don't particularly like it on an artistic level. Nice. But I really hope the artistry, because artistry like speech is supposed to be about expressing what you want to express. And then let's see at the end of the day if the artistry is telling you something that needs to be told. Well, I... I... At the end of the day. I don't think you have to worry about the audience. That's... That's going to happen regardless. Hansel, I don't think ever from what I know about him and have seen, even though we haven't seen scam, which is probably one of his most popular things. He's a director similar to like and on Yorag. It's usually always about like what he wants to say. And it was an interesting thing. And I imagine it's similar with Hansel about how Vishal's films and On Yorag's films have done in the past. Because I was trying to make a point of how Box Office is stupid. And so On Yorag has 13 theatrical releases. One, in terms of their collection, was average. 12 flops slash disasters. Vishal Bardwash, 10 movies. Two averages, eight flops. And I said imagine knowing the quality of this man's work and thinking Box Office is ever a good parameter of a film. I'd imagine he doesn't have very many successes in the Box Office. Right. And because he's just going to tell his story. And that's the other thing is I hope that when all is said and done that the storytelling is done in such a way where the overall universal truths of things like love is always better than hate. Acceptance is always more important than isolation. Those things are intact without propagandizing the story to make it be something it actually wasn't historically. Because filmmakers can do that with their films as they take an actual event and then they frame it within the context of what they want people to do in their retelling history rather than just presenting you with history and letting you make a decision as to what happened. And I think it was last year we saw a trailer. We never saw the film. But I forget what language it was but it was about the 2611 attacks and it seemed that we had a hero and we were like I'd be worried about them heroizing just making it cinematic when they should just be telling a story. Just telling a story of what happened. Obviously this doesn't look like. No. I don't even know Zahan Kay and Aditya R. If I know if we've seen them I don't remember. Yeah. I didn't recognize really anybody. And this just looks like Hansel Metta just been like this is an untold story that people need to know. Need to know. And also there's a message at the end. And a primary person in this event who's a heroic person that we ought to remember. Yeah. That's what I feel. I would hope I don't know if he's historical maybe but I'd imagine he would be. Yeah. Even though I'm not saying you can't take creative liberties. Of course. Stuff is cinematic. You can composite several people into a hero. Yeah. That take the events of what three people did and make them a particular person. Yeah. To highlight the heroic of the moment. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. But I thought it looked really cool. I'd be very interested in watching it. Yeah. Absolutely. Especially for the importance of the story. Yeah. Learning about an event that I'm not. Mahesh. He's the casting director. He's the casting director. Yeah. He's probably the biggest casting director in all of India I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. Background. Just make sure I don't know anybody else here. I do not think I do. Anyways let us know what you thought about the trailer if you are excited to watch it and anything else we need to know down below.