 Filming right now, I'll be done in a couple of hours. Let's connect finally at some point, later for pity's sake. Doug, your boyfriend? Your mom. Ha ha ha. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Direct, it's Ethan Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter. More juicy content. Yeah. Thank you to everybody who supports us on Patreon. Follow us for your Twitter account. Yes. Bring the bells with our notifications. Go on, bang! Follow us on Persian YouTube channels in the description below. Exclusive content over there. All uncut episodes of The Family Man. Sacred games, music purrs. Every TV show we ever watched. Except for season one, because we weren't doing it at the time. Hence, I don't think we just don't have those. Is Game of Thrones over there even? No, we weren't even doing it for that. I never did a uncut reaction. Yeah. Those files were so large. I miss those days. That was so fun. Yeah, but it's... The files are so large that it takes so long to actually upload and then save. Right. Because each episode's over now. I know, it takes... How long does it take? So you got an hour? I know, you got rippin' Wi-Fi. Well, yeah, you got an hour-long screen recording of the episode. Right. And then you got an hour-long reaction on top of that. So that makes the file even larger, though. So it's a big thing. Today we're doing a movie review. Mm. I guess kind of a movie. Hehehehe. He's turned into a little boy. He really has. And instead of saying Bengali film. Yep. Starring our Dost. Slosh Dika. Mukherjee, right? Yeah, Mukherjee. Slosh Dika Mukherjee. There's two pronunciations for it. Sometimes people pronounce Mukherjee, but the predominant, and I believe hers, as well as like Andrani's, is Mukherjee. Mukherjee. Yeah, no relation. Well, yes, like seagulls. There's millions of seagulls and we are all linked at some dimension. So yes, because they're all Bengali. We're watching the Bengali, 2020 Bengali film. Tashar Gowar? Tashar Gowar. Yeah, Tashar Gowar and Man. I could hardly get through. I mean, this was like Lagan. It was so long. It was an extremely long film. I watched it in six days. You just have to be able to sit through a really long film. It's gonna take about a week. Yeah. It's like a series. So give it a week, watch at least five minutes a day. It's 47 minutes. It's 47 minutes long. Directed by, say his name? Which technically, by the way, Sudipta Roy, that qualifies for like the Globes and the Oscars as a film. As an actual film. No, I believe the Oscars is 55 minutes. So this would be considered short film, which is ridiculous. Globes, I think it has to just get past like 20 or something. Anyway, but the synopsis is a housewife of an upper middle class family, stuck between the worlds that is around her and within her. This is the story of her world, her home, her search, her, for herself. Yeah. We, we... Oh, hang on, just like she's at camp. Will she be able to find what she is looking for? Will she? I don't know. I don't know. Do we want to do a non-spoiler? Okay, it's 47 minutes. We're going to do a non-spoiler because the majority of you probably have not seen it. Yeah, I know. If I don't want to ruin it for you. It was a little indie film. I think it's on Hoi Choy now. I know that. Yes, it is on Hoi Choy. It's on Hoi Choy. Did you watch it when then, Johnny? No. When I, at the time when I watched it, she was asleep. Just go ahead and watch it. She asked me what I thought of it. Okay. What did you think of it, Rick? I, at first, I thought, okay, what's going on? And I was like, I don't know if I'm going to like this, the first five, six minutes. And then when I realized where we were going, I really liked it. Yeah, I mean, it is, it's really, really good. Yeah, it's very, very well done. Very well done. In terms of the acting, filmmaking, everything. It's basically, I don't want to give a lot away. It's basically, there's somebody, it actually takes place in the pandemic. Well, let's hear, we're going to give you two because obviously this video is going to sit on the channel for the life of the channel. So there will be a point when most of you, hopefully will have seen this and want to come back and hear what we have to say about some of the spoiler stuff. So let's just tell you right now, watch it. It's 47 minutes. It's 47 minutes and then come on back because we want to talk about the things we want to talk about that give stuff away. And don't, this film will be ruined, like most films will be ruined for you if you hear stuff about it before seeing it. It's worth your time. It is worth, absolutely worth your time. So go, go watch it. It's on, like I said, it's on Hoi Choy. I think if, obviously if you've been gone, you might have already seen it or you might have Hoi Choy. Yeah, and it just, you may already have it. Yeah, so. But if you're not, I would still encourage you to go watch it. It's basically a one woman show. That is, it's a one woman show. So go watch that please. We're going to get into spoilers now. That's our non-spoiler review is go watch it. Rick. So obviously going into this, expecting it to be good because it's Swojstika, rooting for her. We're always going to be honest, which is interesting. Did you know that the same number of letters for stupid is the same number of letters for honest? Whoa. Yeah, that's a coincidence. It is a coincidence. So I went in with high expectations, but obviously I actually went in with a little foreboding because when we've interviewed people and gotten to know them now, it's like going to see the play of a friend, you're not going to lie if it's soft. That's true. And you don't want it to suck. Because number one, you want the artist to be great no matter who's doing it. Well, it's somebody you know and care about. Yeah. It's the last thing you want to do. So thankfully, thankfully, this is what it is, not just because of the concept, but because of her. Yeah. She just does with it something that's really difficult to do. Primarily, when something's written to break the fourth wall, it requires a very good actor to draw you in. And there were times where I felt like she was looking deep into my eyes. I really felt personally, that's what, at first, I was like, oh, okay, I hope this becomes more personal than it feels right now because if it just floats above the top here, I'm not going to like this. Yeah. And it dropped in and got really wonderfully weird. I thought she did a very, very good job with, one, making you care for her. Yes. And then also giving a sense of, a relatable sense. One, at the beginning, she was basically my wife, who is a introvert and loves plants. You can't see him right now. My wife, she's about 100 plants in our house alone, not including our outdoor plants. She loves plants and so she was like, I just love my plants. I want to stay away from everyone. And I was like, oh, look, it's my wife's story. And also, in a similar sense, somebody who, her spirit came across as somebody who's just really, just a genuinely content and happy person. Yeah, absolutely. And so I thought she did a very good job. And then also bringing in the creepy factor and the fact that obviously this awful stuff has happened to her. And we can talk about the filmmaking of that, which I thought was really great. I don't know what they do with the husband. The fact that you can relate to her. And then also, whenever she looked like it's right here on the poster, it's a very like, I know what I did. I know it's probably wrong. I don't care. Right, there's almost an evil mischief going on behind her eyes. She had a lot of stuff going on. She vacillates between three different, at one point I was thinking to myself, there's no fricking husband. Yeah, I was thinking that for a while. If there is, he's dead from there. And she is out of her mind because she vacillates between the sweet Stephanie kind of, I'm just content with my plants and making food and having a family to this really broken woman who's being freaking abused to someone who's gone over the edge, who's pushed too far and is now psychotic. And she does it in a way that's not, this is another thing that's difficult. Like if you've seen an old film called Civil where Sally Field started her early life, she plays a woman, it's a true story about a woman with 17 personalities. And she, this woman, like a lot of people with multiple personality disorder will just switch from personality to personality. This isn't like that. This is a, that's kind of a flow from place to place. Without ever, it's not a surprise because we saw this quality in her and Patelok. She has the quality of an actress who never indicates, never tries. She just does her best to embody and be. And I'd love to see behind the scenes. I'd love to talk with her about what the process was like and what the relationship was with the director. Yeah, absolutely been a play. Oh, this would make a fantastic play. Yeah. Although what would you do? Cause one of the elements of this that I thought was great was that he became the every man by us and never seen his face. Yeah, which is one of the things I want to talk about with the filmmaking, I love that. Cause it makes it, you're not just looking at this guy. This is, it could be anybody. And any man. Any man you see on the street could be this guy. And they were probably saying it's probably a lot of people, especially in older Indian culture, you know, with maybe a range marriage or just that's they fell into an abusive relationship. And he's, you know, cheating on her. He can stay out all day, go to work, go sleep with his girlfriend, come home, demand her to make him breakfast and dinner and then rape her later in the day. And it's just fine. But they don't show his face, which I thought was really, really well done. And a good decision by the filmmaker. Agreed. And I also think it touches on a subject that I don't know how much it's talked about in India because I know personal things are not often shared. Going to counseling is offered considered anathema or. Just family man. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But there have been globally situations where the lockdowns have put strains on families. So for example, interestingly here in the United States birth rates dropped and you would think it was the opposite. Everybody's at home. Yeah, you do. Right. But what it does is it has forced people to address things that they might not have addressed before where there were problems. For example, he's exhibiting strain and tension. She says at one point, such a sad line when she says he's probably stressed out because he's not able to see her like he was because of lockdown. And I wouldn't surprise me. And I'm knowing Shlostaka and the things that she posts, which right now is nothing but COVID support. But prior to that, she's really big on mental health, empowering women, eliminating stereotypes, not body shaming. And it wouldn't surprise me if one of the goals of the film is to get women in particular to see this and not feel alone and reach out for help. Whether it's abuse that's just standard or stuff has come up because of COVID that, but it's done in a really high-brow intelligent way. I love the filmmaking. I thought the filmmaking was absolutely very well done in Billington to the cinematography score was wonderful. You've added that since it was just her carrying the film and it seemed, I know it's 47 minutes already short, felt like 25. Yeah, it really did. I didn't want it to end. It really goes by. I felt like we've had one or two short films that felt longer than this. Like an 18 minute one? Yeah, absolutely. We've had some that felt longer than this. That felt longer than this film. And it's a testament because it's just one person really. I mean, there's one other person you can hear his voice and he's technically in there, but it's not. I love, I love Forth Wahlberg's. I love Forth Wahlberg's. I don't know why. It was even before Deadpool. I know, I know it was. It's because like, I like that. Because to me, Forth Wahlberg symbolized that directors know that you're not nitty. You know this is a film. You know that. And I like that directors like just take that away. I'm like, this is a film, but you know, we're just gonna talk right now. It's okay, it's fine. I really enjoy that, but obviously it can go bad. If it's not done right, it can go bad. But I thought it was done very, very, very well. It often can be an excuse for bad writing because you can get exposition and just, okay, I'm gonna tell you now rather than show you. Yeah, I was afraid it was gonna do that. That's what I meant by my uncomfortableness at the beginning. I would say the only gripe I really have is that it was a little predictable. I was to where it went. I kind of, I knew that was gonna happen. It was at least something I thought was a real plausible idea. There wasn't- It wasn't predictable on how it got there in like a store, like in terms of how it was filmed. But I was like, I almost knew like from basically when, especially when she was talking about her mother-in-law and what she let happen to her and what she did to her. I was like, okay, she's probably gonna poison the husband. Yeah, that's probably gonna happen. And in fact, I had five or six scenarios, which in a movie that is extraordinarily good, like a Christopher no, like inception, you're guessing ends and then the ending is way beyond anything you guessed. This had an ending that was one of my possibilities. And I agree with you. If that's a gripe and this is a small gripe, it would just be, it would have been that much more phenomenal if we had something happened in the end where we went, what? Yeah, I was waiting for one of those little things at the end and I would have really been like, oh, this is great. Like it was all in her head. Yeah, something like that. But even that, I would have guessed that. Yeah, so there's a couple of scenarios that you probably could have guessed and it's like I said, I'm being nitpicky here. I really enjoy this film in terms of all the acting, the score, I thought the cinematography, the way they shot, a lot of close-ups on her face. And then it's just her talking to herself, the entire time. Yeah. That's not easy to do. No. That's very few films pulled that off. I mean, I can think of one other that was luck, but that was just Tom Hardy and that was an hour and a half. Watch that movie. That was a phenomenal. Great movie. Phenomenal. And even I thought it was really well done. I think they found a really good balance, for example, in that moment when they're showing us her laying in the fetal position and the blood trickling down her legs and she's crying. That was pretty much perfectly done because you could have gone not enough or you could have gone over the top, especially for any woman that's experienced something like that. I think this was just enough to stir without triggering somebody. So all in all, hopefully you're watching this because you've seen it at this point. If you haven't and you were naughty and you got spoiled, boy, you shouldn't be. I would still go watch it. Go watch it. It's unfortunate that you stayed here for, to be spoiled. Because I think you should go support this film because I think, especially towards the end, she could easily contend for lead actors and our stupid awards. Absolutely. That means absolutely nothing. That's why we call them dummies. But I thought she did that well and as well as the cinematography, I thought it was really, really well done. So overall, I really enjoyed it. And it's also our first supposed to go Bengali film. Yeah, it was. I've seen her in a couple of things on Hoi Choy that were TV series stuff. And it really does show the difference because she's... We've seen her in Hindi in the Shant thing. Obviously, Patalak. Right. And I don't know if there's something else, but... There was one other thing, I think, that we saw her in. Was it? Okay, I don't remember it. I don't either. But anyway, in a couple of the other TV shows that she'd done, the writing isn't as good as this or Patalak. And there's only so much an actor can do when the writing isn't giving them what they need. It just shows. And you'll hear this all the time with actors win Emmys or Tony Awards or Oscars, whatever it might be. And I'm sure it's this way as well. I hope it's this way in any of the awards in India. The first words out of most of their lips is going to be thank you to the writers. Because actors don't have anything without the writers. And the difference between good writing and bad writing is astronomical when you watch. It's a great example. If you watch some of the TV shows she's in, I would say in some of the TV shows I've seen her in, she was fine on Hoi Choy. But she's magnificent in Patalak and she is extremely good in this. It's a testament to the writing too. An actor can save some bad writing, not all of them. I'm hearty. Yeah, venom. He saves the writing. Fun film, but it's only because hearty did so well. He saved it. There was a lot of bad writing in venom. If you haven't seen that film, hopefully the second one. Painful sometimes. Yeah, and they had a bunch of good actresses in the one that murdered Heath Ledger. What's her name? Oh. Oh, wait, sorry. Yeah, he said that. I have feelings. Let us know what you thought about this film. What should be the next Bengali and the next Shikha film that we should watch? Let us know down below.