 Piku. Piku. Indeed. Piku. Piku. Piku. Piku. Piku. Piku. Piku. Are you exhausted yet? That's actually... After our stupid reaction to you idiots, I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And this is a movie reaction. Dun dun dun! Uh... We watched a film called A Piku. Yeah. Well not A Piku but just... Piku. Piku. Uh, directed by... Uh... I wanna say her name. Oh, his name, sorry. Should I... Shooted Sir Carr? Yeah. Who also directed Pink. Mm-hmm. Uh, and the... It's starring obviously Depeca, Amatapak John, and Irfan Khan. Who did you notice in the opening credits? He was just billed as Irfan? Really? There was no Blokan. It was just Irfan. Interesting. Yeah. Like Shredevi. Right. I don't know her last name. I don't know what that was about. Oh yeah, she does. When did she? Yeah, in fact, her first name isn't Shredevi. It's a combination of two. Her first name was Shiree. And I think just that. But anyway. Uh, and the synopsis is a corky comedy about the relationship between daughter and her aging father, whose eccentricities... Ex-centricities. Drive everyone crazy. Oh, by the way, she should probably... If you're gonna see this movie, you probably wanna like step outside, because it'll be spoiled for you. It'll be ruined for you if you hear this. Glad I remembered that. Okay, sorry. Bye, Alexis. Bye. And this will be obviously a complete spoiler review as all of ours. As all of ours. If you haven't watched it, please go watch it and come back. And if we didn't... That's kind of a hint at the front. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't tell you to waste your time to go watch it. We would just say stick around and just listen to what you have to say. It's a very interesting film. But I ended up enjoying it. I ended up loving it. And here's why it was interesting to me. Yeah. At first, I'm like, God, I'm exhausted. Because of the film or just the amount of work you're having to do. Yeah, well... Because especially in the first 20 minutes, especially the way they cut it, it was like cut, cut, cut, cut, and it was just a full dialogue over and over again, everybody talking over each other. And then basically when Piku's character was like... I think she said like, I need a break. And then it kind of slowed down. And I was like, oh, that was on purpose. Okay. That was on purpose. The director did that. The director on purpose wanted you to feel like Piku's character. Apps of freaking Lutely. They wanted you to feel exhausted with the amount of just over talking, like talking about one thing over and over and over again. Yeah. That's both the script, did that, and the direction. Yeah. And the editing. And after I realized that, I was like, that's actually pretty brilliant. Brilliant. But my favorite part about this, and we could get into more of it, was I'm going to talk Bak Chan's character. God. And he was like, so freaking annoying. But I loved him so much. I know. That's great. It made you feel like she did. On the one hand, you're irritated by the guy so much. But you still find him quite endearing. Yeah. And I could not do what Piku did. No, you could never do that. No way. Thank God my parents aren't like that. No. You would desert them. Peace out. Take care of yourself. Go away. Go away. Hire a nurse. Yes. Exactly. So what did you think of the whole thing? I just loved it. I think what I loved the most, because there is a whole lot I loved about this, is what I loved, if I was going to, if I was teaching theater again, yeah, I would tell everybody in the class, if you want to see how to act, you should watch this. Because what you're going to get, you're not going to get a character like the Joker with Heath Ledger. You're not going to get these moments like in There Will Be Blood, the whole... He drank my milk. Yeah. You're not going to get the eye drink. You're warm milk. Yeah, that's right. You're not going to get any of that. What you're going to get is, for me, just people, the beauty of them doing nothing. Yep. It's a very fly on the wall film. All of them, everybody, including the small roles, was just... And the director let them all breathe. I bet the feeling on set was just so conducive to the actors just being able to be themselves. The hardest thing for an actor to do is not act. And that's the goal of acting, is to just be. And there was never a moment where I didn't think any of these people were just being throughout the whole time. He is a very, I think, actor's director. 100%? No, because he did pink. Yeah. And that's the exact same way that film was. There's no way Big B would do two films with the same director if he wasn't happy with the director. Obviously, this is the most different we've seen Big B in a film. So we saw him in Chalet and we didn't even recognize him. He's always been strong and heavy and powerful. But he was like... I mean, he still had a presence, obviously, because that's him. Yeah. But he was so quirky and scary. Hypochondriac. A legit hypochondriac. Hypochondriac. He was so funny in a lot of... Like when he was like... When the guy came up and he was trying to talk to Topeka's character. Yeah. He's like... She's had multiple sexual murders. She's not a horde, you know. I'm like, oh no. He didn't just say that. Yeah. I love that his whole character. And then when they incorporated Irfan Khan. And I thought that was a great addition because he was just like watching... He at... Yeah. That was a great idea. That was a great idea. But when he came in, he was almost us. Right. The outside looking in. Yeah. And he was like, how do you deal with him? Like is every conversation about poop? Well, and even her. Yeah. He had to deal with her being so rude. Yeah. I understand why though. I mean... Oh yeah. I do too. I felt so... It was a weird ending because I felt so relieved for her. So let's talk about the ending. Yeah. I felt so relieved for her but it's also her dad. And you know that she loved him. And she would never wish he wasn't around. Of course. But she was still. Like she couldn't live her life. And she couldn't just be her own person because he was a very selfish and controlling person. True. But the great conversation she has with Irfan when they're talking about... And she points out... He points out, well I'm not casting aspersions upon you. I live with my mom. I'm not saying that living with your parent in and of itself is wrong. Just you shouldn't feel this... Obviously it's screwing with your life. Yeah. And making you a more negative person. And that's one of the other things I loved so much about the movie. So much was said that was never said. Which for screenwriting that's so hard to do and it's what needs to be done. We didn't get a lot of answers about Irfan's family. We didn't find out much about his dad other than when Big B's character starts telling him you tortured your dad. Yeah. That was intense. Oh yeah. And you could see that was going... I love that we never got to hear him talk about his dad. Why did he take over the family business? We didn't get those answers. He put on a great performance and it was a very understated performance. As always with them. Yeah. I adore that guy. He's so beautifully small. He doesn't need to perform. And all of them are such great listeners. Oh yeah. And... Okay. So Deepika. Mm-hmm. I knew this about her. I assumed it especially after watching Priyanka in Barfi. That there was a weightiness and a depth to her as an artist that we really haven't gotten to see yet. And what we've seen her do. We've seen her do good work. I think we saw her in... Was it Bistrami? She was great. She hasn't done bad work. Yeah. But this. You think this was her best? Unquestionably. All right. I think it was... Unquestionably for me. The best one I think I've seen is... She was great and there's no doubt. But Bistrami and... No, for me... And Padma both. You still picked those over this? This for me was... It wasn't as revelatory for me as watching Priyanka in Barfi. But for me, I saw for the first time and I'm so excited now for her new film that will come out in January. Mm-hmm. She plays the girl who I believe was burned. Mm-hmm. This is an actress who I think can easily, like Priyanka, be completely passed over simply because she's so pretty. Mm-hmm. You lose the reality that this is a very deep... If she's not trained, I'm flabbergasted. Mm-hmm. Again, she... Think about what I'm about to say. Mm-hmm. She matched Big B and Irfan on screen with her stillness, her quiet. I never... She didn't need to perform. I never... She was thinking about what she was going to say. I never doubted that. Oh. I just... I found her to be... I saw all that in Bistrami and Padma both. Again, she was really, really good in those. Yeah. But for me, I didn't see a thespian emerge. Oh, I did. Until this. Mm-hmm. This, for me, was watching three master thespians surrounded by a supporting cast that the director and the casting director did a beautiful, beautiful job for everybody in the movie of just absolutely exquisite acting and a really, really great screenplay. I guess I got there before you. Where? Like, three thespian actors. I knew that going in. Like, that's what I was expecting. I think I had already put her on that level that you hadn't put her on yet. Maybe so. You had to put her on Priyanka's level? Oh, yeah. Okay. I hadn't done that yet. Yeah. Because I'd seen her be good, but I hadn't seen anything that, for me, was transcendent. I know a lot of you all in... Was it Bistrami? Yeah. That's the one where she plays... That's where she is the love interest that she's fighting with Big B and Irfan. That's right. I thought she outshined Priyanka in that. I know a lot of you all. Yeah, I did. I thought Priyanka was better. Yeah. I know a fence too. It was good in it, but for me, Priyanka's level show. I thought Deepika was better in that. Right. I was kind of already there. I thought she's an amazing actress. But yeah, this film... It's so funny because a lot of times I felt like a lot of the characters. Like, when Irfan went to... She was, I think, sitting on the lake or wherever the water. And he went to talk to her. And she was like, can we just sit in silence? And I was like, yes. Please do. Please do for like five minutes in the movie. Because I need a break as well. I felt like that so many times. And you mentioned the ending. Let's go back to the ending. I thought the ending couldn't have been better where they're playing and the helper comes. I didn't know what she was going to do. Didn't know what she was going to do. But that little comeback tomorrow with her playing with him was enough to let you know she's changed and you get to decide how you think the story's going to end. Are they going to get married? Yep. I think they are. I'd like to hope they are because they seem to be pretty good for each other. I didn't care. But I didn't care if they did or didn't. I love that they just ended it without having to tie anything in a bow. They didn't have to consummate their romance with each other. They didn't have to be a big kiss or a love or just this... In little glances that she began to change. Even the smallness of the way she looked at him began to change. Which is only internal work that an actor does. You can't indicate those things. If you indicate those things you're acting and it's false. It doesn't come across as believable. And that's what blew me away was how much of her work was so natural. No indicating. I expect that from Irfan and Big B. But I didn't expect her to be as brilliant as she was. And I just... I love, love, love this movie. Yeah, it was a great movie. And I think I would enjoy it even more second time. Because I already know kind of what's going on. And so I don't have to... Because I think it was even more exhausting for us. It'd be one thing if you spoke the language and you could just watch them. And you kind of know what they're saying. We had to watch them and read. And there was a lot of words. It is torturous. It is torturous because when they're speaking you want to be looking in their eyes and in their face. And you've got to go quick up and down. Yeah. And so it's even more exhausting. I even felt I think more like Topeka from having to... Oh, I'm tired of reading. And there's other cultural references as well that I'm sure we didn't find the full impact on. Like being Bengali or not being Bengali. And I'll tell you what. We've talked about what are things, like what roles we would like to do. Like clearly what would be right for us. I would not only like to play Irfan's role. Oh yeah. I would love to see this film made as an American film taking it solely in the... Because the subject matter, you caught the metaphor of the constipation obviously. Yeah. And I would love to see just a guy who owns a taxi company with a girl taking care of her dad. And maybe they live in LA but their home is in Boston. And this guy who owns the taxi company was from New York. And they drive cross country with the dad. And you could take so much of what's inherent in this. And apply it and turn it into a story with Americans doing what they're doing. And having American cultural references. I think it's just a fantastic movie. Yeah. I think it... How many stupid's would you give it? This was as good for me as English-Finglish. So I'd give it a 10. Oh you think so? Yeah. Totally different. The reason... Yeah. Very different. But this one's more like the awards. Honestly. Like I... This could enter... Yeah. This could enter awards level. Remember Manchester, you by the sea? Yeah. I know you didn't like that film. Yeah. But it was very similar in that it was like a fly on the wall film. And that's what I'm talking about. Very much. And so like all the acting was top notch. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. It could be like one of those types of films. Correct. Yeah. It's close to English-Finglish. Right. You could literally pop on it any second. Yeah. You're always going to be in the mood for that. Always. I would have to be in the right mood to watch this. Yeah that's why I think... For sure. I'd probably give this about a 8.59. Yeah. For me it's still a 10 for its type of film. Yeah. For me it's again, it's a film that if I were to point to people to... I love, I mean some of my favorite scenes are to point out of anything done by Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis and Tom Hardy. We could go through hundreds of scenes that are just riveting. This would probably be my favorite movie to show scenes of, you want to know how to act? Just watch these guys listen to each other. Watch them say nothing. Watch them just sit. There's a moment where Irfan is sitting on the side of the road and he's just watching them and that's all the director caught was him sitting on the side of the road. It's so hard to capture that and not look like you're acting. It's those moments... I loved the moment when he wanted him to throw the knife and he didn't want to throw the knife. So they both just sat there. Yeah. You know what I thought? I thought, the screenwriter in my head is going, we're going to come back to that knife and we're going to find out that knife had some really important meaning to him for some reason. Maybe it belonged to his dad. They never brought it back to that. We don't know why that thing was there. Yeah. It was great flying the wall film. I love it. I thought the director did a masterful job in making you feel exhausted. Yeah. Just like her. Yeah. And just like Irfan. Yeah. And it was genius because not a lot of films, because it's dangerous. Because you could just end up being like, you're just exhausted. I hate this film. And you pushed her off the way. Yeah. It was a masterful job. Yeah. By, say his name for me. Yeah. By Shenzhen. I can't read it fully. Blow it up here. Shujutsu-kar. Okay. Yeah. Shujutsu-kar. We love pink. Yeah. We love this. You're an amazing director. Amazing director. Please cast us in your next film. Yes. Thank you.