 Part three to our watch-a-long of Rorschach. Rorschach! If you're seeing us on YouTube, you're gonna see a very cut-up version because of copyright reasons. If you'd like to see a full-on cut version of it, you can have it on Patreon. I'll put the link in the description in the pinned comments so you can go check that out. And at the end of this part, we will talk about the movie. We will. Maybe. Maybe. And let's just finish this movie. Am I right? Yep. We stop this every 15, every 30 minutes. And just do another film intro. Here we go. This is his therapy. What a headache, huh? No, I don't know. Hmm. That's how it is. The leave's mother said, she knows me a lot. What else can I get from a mother like this? Right? If there's anyone who doesn't care about him, I'll go with her. She's an interesting family. I'll take care of both my children and my family. He'll take care of everything. In the case of Rahsaan, Siddhi and Anil were both dead. Balanchand's case was also lost. Anil and Anil were both dead. Anil was dead in two murders. But no one saw him. Was this all revenge against him by Anil? The police officer, Luki Navey. In the case of Balanchand, Siddhi, who was killed by Anil, was given the poison of Rahsaan. When he broke the glass, he saw a bullet in his name. He was a man of the art. He was a man of the art. I've killed him. He's not here anymore. I only killed him. She killed herself. He was also a man. He killed the man who died in the past. He was a different person. He was a family member. He's not a fool anymore. He's not in the family anymore. He's the one who killed himself. Is she gonna disappear? Wow. Welcome back. Well, I'm glad to know the therapy worked. I'm not sure, I'm not sure any of that was real. I'm not sure any of it was real. I think it was all in the asylum. I do too. I think he, this, whether any of what we saw actually happened, this is him. Processing. Processing and maybe hoping. This is what happened or what he could do. Which is why I think he would be welcome back at the end. It was kind of evident that this was in my mind. And he got resolution. That somehow, whatever he went through that got him to the place where he was institutionalized, somehow he got to the place where he could resolve the past traumas and be himself again. I think he probably lost his wife. Well, yeah, I definitely think that happened. And then that sent him, and he lost his mind. Or he killed her, because obviously there was a lot of. Right, it could have been him. There was a lot of talk about husbands and that kind of stuff, almost speaking in a kind of third person-ish, like him talking to a therapist or him talking to himself in an asylum. Right. And so it leaves you with all those kind of questions. Well, and obviously the fact obviously was called heaven. Right. Well, and the fact that he's wearing the, he at the very outset, when he first gets into what we were referring to as the mind castle, and he's sitting on the therapist couch per se, he's got the mask on. Yeah, he had the mask on. He had the mask on. And then everybody else who's there has the mask on. So, and what I loved, I was gonna, it's very Nolan-esque, but the difference is, Nolan messes with linear realities. This was not necessarily linear realities. The film itself is patterned like a Rorschach test. The film itself, the story as it unfolds is like different pages of a Rorschach test. It's utterly brilliant. What do you see? Cinematically brilliant, which is, what do you see? It's a great name, obviously. What somebody sees in this film, is completely different than what somebody else got out of it. Right. They could have just taken it at face value. That this was a real story. This was a real story. I tend to think some of it was, or maybe you have to watch a few times to really get the, and I'm wondering if the director would even tell you about the style of films. I would hope not. I would hope not. What do you think happened? Yeah, exactly. That's one of the beauties of films, right? Yeah. Is that it takes you on an experience and lets you come to your conclusion of whether you like it or not. Nolan himself said like, for example, with Tenet, he doesn't particularly like to talk about fan theories because he doesn't like to bring resolution to things that he himself had no intention to have a resolution to. Resolution to? Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely so interesting. Well done in terms of blending what, at least in my mind, is reality and hallucination or just schizophrenia or whatever he's going through. Or if it's just after death, there's a whole bunch of different theories and rabbit holes I think you could go down. Did this come from other literary material or is this an original screenplay? I'm not sure. Because I would love to know if when they read the script, especially Mammoudi. Oh, Kumballanji Nights, that's what we saw. When he read the script and when Nassim Bashir read the script, did they see what the finished version was? And not only is it the direction and the story and the cinematography, but we said this throughout that the score by Mithin Mukundin was consistently tapping into shapes and shadows. Yeah. And it was super interesting that it was all in English. Yeah. Whatever happens in an Indian film, the fact that maybe parts of songs will be in English, but every single song was in English, which is a very interesting story. And maybe it wasn't that deep with that, but that just, that's such an out-of-the-left field thing for an Indian film to do, not have it in your language obviously. Well, and once again, just, I am a huge, huge, huge fan of Mammoody. Yeah, this is a great performance of his. I just, the last three things we've seen of his have just catapulted him all the way up to the top for me of actors and producers who make things that are everything cinema should, in my humble opinion, be about. I think we're only about four or five into his cinematography as well. And I'm sure it would have been worth the drive. I'm looking forward to, we will watch. Oh yeah, we will. And I'm, I have no doubt. Yeah, but. And the cast was uniformly superb. But it also might be, yeah, I thought everybody did well. I thought this was very, he gave many different vibes in this, which is obviously, he was supposed to, because you're supposed to kind of question, obviously towards the beginning, is he, and still, is he the villain in this? Is he the hero? Is he the hero? Is he the victim? Is he clinically insane? Right. Is this just. Is it PTSD out of a trauma? He went through that sad? Or is this guy, have criminality? Yeah, I definitely think it's, I definitely think something happened to the wife, for sure. Yeah, he's clearly, that's the one through line that he's haunted by. Yes, obviously, I think something happened to her. And that is the one thing we talk about that. Whether he lived, though, through that trauma. Right. Or if this is in an asylum, because he went crazy or died. He also could have, he could have lost his mind, driven into the tree on purpose. And this was what he had to process in order to begin another life. And that's the welcome back. I think the welcome back is, glad to see you've returned to sanity. But you could also see this film as, these are things he had to process before he was able to incarnate in reincarnation. Yeah. And the welcome back was welcome back to being alive. Yeah, I definitely. It's just brilliant. I definitely think it's a fun film to, like if you watch it with a bunch of people and to ask everybody kind of their theory about it. I think it's one of those really fun films of like, because I'm not sure. I can't tell you exactly what happened. No, but the one thing they showed us with the cinematography and the lighting and everything else, the one constant aside from shapes and shadows with everything else, was that whenever we went to Dubai, the murder, his wife, it was not shadowy and shapey. It was very realistic based. And anytime he was haunted by her, she was never shifty or shapey. She was the one solid thing. And whenever she appeared, she was always solid. Except when, oh, it depends on how you're saying that. Obviously, like when she was laying on his lap and she went over her hands. The times her arms appeared, it wasn't ghost-like. Yeah. It was very real. Yeah. I tend to think a lot of this was in an asylum. Me too. I think he was in, I think he was in this whole time. And I'm not sure a lot of this happened. At least this way. I think it's very possible something happened to his wife and then maybe he was going out and ran into a tree and died or like, maybe hit his head and now is in the asylum because he's crazy and now he's going through what he think he would want to do to get justice. This would be such a fun film to watch with a bunch of people. And then talk for about an hour and a half afterwards. Yeah, you definitely could. It's just a great, great film. It's funny, because a lot of people, obviously, I got a ton of recommendations for this. Understandably. So many, but also there are some people that didn't like this film. Talk my stories. I think I saw, I didn't see his review because I don't watch the reviews, but I went on Jimmy's review that I think he saw when it came out. I think he gave it like a six out of 10. Wow. I have to go back and actually watch his review because I just went to where he does the score at the end and I saw that he did, I think it was like a six out of 10. And I was like, oh, okay. So he didn't like it very much. I have to actually watch his review to see what the reasons were, but then I've also heard some other people that they just like, it wasn't their cup of tea at least. I find crazy because I think it was absolutely brilliant and a lot of fun. I think a lot of people, some people don't like when they have to think too much maybe. Yeah, of course. Not like Jimmy's one. I think Jimmy is absolutely one of those people that likes to think about them. It just, wow. Yeah, it's a. It's a brilliant movie. There's people that don't like Inception, surprisingly. Yeah. But there are a lot of layers. So if you're one of people that likes closure in your films, I don't. Or things having an explanation. Yeah, like a full, like this is exactly what happened. Yeah. I don't. No, I like. That's why even when something is way beyond me, where I'm not tracking like LGP's last film, I still can walk away from it going, I didn't get it, but for those of you who did, that's awesome, help me understand it. Maybe I'll get it later. It was a pretty film versus like Tenet for me was way beyond the pale. But I thought it was a very well done over, I mean, the lighting, the score, I liked a lot. Mamoudi's performance in this was very different from everything else I've ever seen of his. I mean, very excited to see him in the horror film because I think he could play creepy and does. Really, really well. And very subtly, very subtly. We were very excited to see that his current film that's out, but maybe it'll be fun to watch with you guys and so you can see our reaction to it and all that when it comes out to OTT in like a month or something like that. But everybody else I thought did very well. Very well. The whole cast was extremely strong, every single one of them. Great cast. So huge credit to the casting choices. And the cinematography, the production, production design, the VFX team. The lighting. The mask was kind of going over. Yeah. There's no flaws in the visual effects. Wonderful work with the stunt team. If there was any wire work, you hit it perfectly. I did just, I also saw some people say that the film was very slow. I didn't, I didn't get that. I didn't get that at all. Maybe the trailer, and I don't remember the trailer, can I be completely honest with you? I don't. Well, gave off the vibes of like an action kind of thriller, maybe that's what they were expecting. And since we were kind of like, we had no recollection of this film really at all. No. And we've just come out of the pacing of Cothill the Core. Yeah. So it wasn't, it didn't feel slow to me. Not at all. It felt like, not at all. Like a slow burn in terms of like, I need to figure out what's going on. But no, it kept me engaged. It's one of those films that you, the pace is being controlled not by the runtime. The pace is being controlled by the cinematography and the score. Yeah, and you're, you want to know what is happening. And you're looking, like I said, there's not a frame of film that goes by where you're not looking at every inch of screen, first of all, for some of the beauty. But then you also recognize there's a ton of messaging happening that you might miss like the Rorschach shapes of the mask getting bigger and bigger on the walls around it. I bet if you watch this film multiple times, you can see new things every time. So many different things of like, oh, that and they'll give you clues as to what is actually happening. This is a film I would excitedly watch over and over again with people who haven't seen it. Yeah, and I'm, I know, I want to see everything when it was ever done. So please, obviously, let us know what is. Huge fan. He had another film come out this year that we didn't see this. Yeah, my respect for him as an artist is as high as it can get. I have such deep respect for him. The wall. You know, if you haven't seen our review of the wall, please go watch that. Please. And cough of the corn. See those films if you haven't seen those films. What was it? Post-production in a series, I guess. Not that's the current one. Yeah. Pramayugam is the one we want to see. Kuntar Squad. And then there was a... Mala... No, we saw Nannapakal Narathumayak. That's the LJP film. Yeah. Poozhu, that one as well. This one right here. Say that name. Parvam. Yeah, and I think that one actually has Subin in it. Am I crazy here? No, it doesn't. Okay, cool. Good memory. Oh, fuck. No, sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, we thought it was Fahad Vassil. It was an F and then a Fassil at the end. It's not Fahad Vassil. I was like, what? That one I've heard a lot about as well. What's next? And I know he has classics as well, that obviously he's been around for a long time. Line him up and we'll knock him down. I want to see everything he's done. Have we only seen... So obviously we've currently seen three and within a fast pace of each other, the... Right, well four. The wall, no. Three within a fast pace of each other. Yeah, the wall and this one. Obviously we want to see the new horror. Right. And we saw the LJP film last year. LJP. And I think the only other one was the first one and I think it was called Parenboo and it was with the little girl. Yeah. Which I believe was actually a Domino film. Could have been. I don't remember. Am I wrong there? So I think... Correct me if I'm wrong. I think we've actually only ever seen five Mamoudi films. I think you're right. No. Six. It was the Sense and Sensibility remake. Oh yeah. He was in that. He was in that, you're right. So I think it's six. But I think we're six for six in terms of liking his films. I don't think we disliked any of those. I believe you're correct. Yeah. Yeah, I believe you're correct. And not just liked. I mean the last three we've seen have loved. Koth of the Core and The Wall. The last four. The LJP film. Oh yeah. The last four. Koth of the Core and now Rorschach. I love every one of those. Obviously that new horror film we're toward very anticipating. I'm hoping it gets broader distribution. Like I said, if not, we'll definitely do a watch along of it. That would be very nice. But it might be fun to just watch it with you guys like this. You guys can let us know. But that was great. I hope you enjoyed it. Like we did let us know with our next Mammoody film for watch along review, whatever. Mammoots. My next. Mammoots. We need a Mammoot on the wall. Is he not on the wall? He's not on the wall. It's gotta happen. Gotta happen. Gotta happen. We've gotta have him on the wall. Gotta have a Mammoot on the wall. Predominantly on the wall. Yeah, yeah, gotta do it. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, let us know what the next Maliella watch along should be with Mammoot or others. Let us know what you thought about the film. If you liked it, if you didn't like it, let us know what your theories are. Especially if you'd love to know your theories on this. If you're seeing this on YouTube, you saw a very cut up version because of copyright reasons. If you'd like to see the full uncut version though of this and other things, other Maliella films that we've done watch alongs too, please look in the description and the pinned comment so you can go check those out. And on to the next watch along.