 So here's what everybody in the world is wanting to know. You cry? Back to our stupid reactions, you idiots. I'm Corbin, as with me as always is. Rick! Hell yeah, my friends. Namaste. Namaste. Please follow us on Instagram. For more... JUSICANTA! Oh, we did just hit 60k last night. Thank y'all so much. And then what happened today? Right after that? What? 10 million channel views. You just did the def thing for us. Sorry headphone users. We love you. Thank you guys so much. We love you. Obviously, we couldn't do it without you. Yeah, this is all because of you. Thank you for enjoying our stupidity. Yeah, because we're just us, man. You're loving it, so we love that you love it. All right. Okay, we've been waiting a long time for this. And as you have as well, we watched... I don't know how to pronounce the actual name, but how do you pronounce it? I would pronounce it... Tari Zemminkar. Okay. Tari Zemminkar. Uh, starring and directed by Amir Khan. Who? Who's that guy? Yeah. Which I also love that the English translation is like stars on Earth. I like that. That's a very cool translation. Yes, this is... So we finally watched it. It's the one that all of y'all thought was gonna make me cry. And I gotta say something, prefacing this, I don't know if we're waiting for that answer. I am so thankful we've seen the Amir Khan films in the order that we've seen them. Yeah. Because I think that I've have... There's a level of appreciation with each of them. This is like... This is the way I want people introduced to Amir Khan. I want them to see three idiots, and then they can go to PK, and then they can go to Dungal, and then they can come to this. I just think it's a fantastic way to see this. And so, uh, we'll probably take a little break after this so we can actually watch some films that don't have Amir Khan. Yeah. For those of you screaming, there are other people doing movies in India, guys. So, but everyone was screaming at us to watch this. Yes, and I'm glad, and this, I don't know how long this is gonna be, but this is probably gonna take us a while because we both, I'm sure, have a lot to say. I know, I do. So it's about an eight-year-old boy who was thought to be lazy and a troublemaker until a new art teacher had the patience and the compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school. And if you've not seen this film, stop watching this and go watch the film. Yes. Because we're gonna ruin it for you, and we don't like to do that because it takes away the power of the film to tell the story. Yeah. Okay. So, what did you think of it? All right. I have a lot to say, and I don't want to just get on a soapbox and go into a diatribe. Yeah. But this is the best way for me to describe it. There are a lot of films that touch my heart. And I mean, it's a literal physical feeling I have in my chest. Yeah. That doesn't happen a lot. There's lots of movies. I cry in a lot of movies. But I don't always get this feeling in my chest, in my heart. The end of Schindler's List does that to me, where I feel a physical ache in my chest. No film has ever caused my heart to feel that ache as long or as often as this. Well, I'm guessing it's because you being a teacher. This hit me a long time. And no other film has hit me on as many levels in as powerful a way, because it got me as a teacher. Yeah. It got me as a dad. Yeah. And it got me as a kid. Yeah. Because there's a lot I can relate to that little guy about that I experienced as well. Yeah. And I'm sure when you were a teacher, you experienced the, you know, I think one of the best parts about this, one Amir Khan once again loves is to do important messages in film. And I think this is a great important message about a lot of things in this. But like one, the parenting, child with learning disabilities, teaching a child with learning disabilities. Yep. Being a friend. Being a friend. Yeah, being a friend to a kid with, like his buddy with the, interestingly had an issue with his leg, who was more empathetic, obviously because of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was, I thought, one of the best scenes was when he went to, obviously, a bunch of great scenes when Amir Khan confronts all these different people. But when he confronts the principal, Yeah. he was like, oh yeah, I don't think he'll last the year here. And then my favorite line, the whole thing, he was like, well, we can test him verbally. Knowledge is knowledge. Yes. Written or verbal. Right. And I thought that was amazing because every kid learns differently. Right. And obviously, the big issue I have with the school system here in America, and I'm sure it's even worse elsewhere where there's a lot more pressure, they're focused on testing scores and they're focused on just the bottom line, basically not the one actually learning. Exactly. And they teach just like some people just stand up and lecture at you this whole time. Right. Without, and it has to do with class size and all that kind of stuff. But he was like, it's our job as teachers to accommodate everyone. Yeah. And so like it's our duty to help this child Right. Learn. Right. Just not, just because he can't learn a certain way that everybody else can doesn't mean we should forego him. Exactly. I thought it was a beautiful message. Yeah, I did too. Yeah, and as a teacher, thankfully, the experience that we had is at the same school where you were a student and I was a teacher. And thankfully, the teaching approach there was not strict and rigid. Some teachers were strict and rigid. But those of us that weren't Those of us who weren't like Majeka and me and you can go down the list were approached it this way. Allah, to give an example, dead poet society where you have teachers that go against the grains of the norms and allow students to do things that they can't do in other classes and be who they want to be that they can't be in other classrooms which I think is huge. Yeah. Huge. A couple of things you said, things you remembered. There were two quotes that I loved among others. You'll find your purpose when you find your happiness and just this throwaway line when he was talking to his girlfriend about the different kids and how it's just like you said they should be reached. And he said five uneven fingers make up the hand. And I thought that was beautiful about how don't expect them all to fit into your stereotype of what a kid's supposed to be. Yeah. All of them are different and they're supposed to be different. Yeah. That's what makes them kids. So yeah, I've got so much. I could talk on all three of those things, how this hit me relating to him, that little boy and what it was like for me as a little boy and as being as an only kid. I can touch on the dad aspect and the teacher aspect. Yeah. So I could talk for hours about this movie. The issue. And then the artistry. Yeah. From an acting standpoint, we just go through the artistry of the film. Yeah, yeah. The, when I went into this, a lot of you all are one, you just wanted me to cry. But also in our Q and A, I told you I'm slightly dyslexic. And you're like, oh, you can relate to it more. That's, I'm very slightly dyslexic and that only really had to do with reading. And it wasn't an extent of his dyslexia. Which some people have. Yeah. Which I believe, I heard Tom Cruise actually has quite severe dyslexia. Yeah. There's people that have very severe dyslexia. My thing in school was, I have very severe ADD and ADHD. Correct. Which causes me to not care if you're not paying attention if you're not teaching something I don't care about. Not paying attention. But it was never a struggle for me to actually learn if I was paying attention. It was quite easy. It was just one, getting to class. And then keeping you engaged which is not, which is the teacher's fault. That's not your fault. That's, if a teacher can't keep the student engaged that's not the kid's fault. But I think this child, it was, he wasn't just dyslexic. I think he was a high functioning autistic child. Very much. I would think that people who know that, like my son-in-law works with kids and I guarantee you, watch us and think this kid's high level spectrum autism. Yeah. I know I've known a bunch of autistic people in my life. They're incredibly intelligent. Yes, extraordinarily intelligent. They're usually smarter than most people. Exactly. It's just they learn differently. Yep. And so the dyslexia from my point of view doesn't really have a social aspect to it. Right. It's mostly just learning. Right. So it's not like you have the social, dysfunction. Yeah, dysfunction. Yeah. And so that's more on the autism spectrum. Right. So I still- But you could relate to the social dysfunction. Could you not? No. That didn't have anything to do with the dyslexia in terms of not relating to people who, yours was different because people didn't get along with you. You just didn't care. You know, I know. Yeah. Okay. No, I've never had a social thing. Yeah. Ever. I guess for you it was if you weren't social with me I don't care. Yeah, I don't really give a crap. Exactly. So, but I thought the message of it was really important and really great because you don't often see that depicted in film. The only other time I've really seen autism on the forefront was a TV show called Parenthood. Yeah. There's an autistic child and the parents are trying to deal with that, his diagnosis and it was kind of a very similar situation. It's great. Well, and for adults, wasn't that Rain Man? Wasn't that the- Yeah, Rain Man. That's right. Yeah. Rain Man. Rain Man. Rain Man. But he was not on the high- Yeah. Wopper. Wopper's on a set. Wopper's on a set. Yeah, uh-oh. Uh-oh. Great film, by the way, if you haven't seen us. So good. But yeah, I thought Amir Khan did amazing as a director. Yeah. I didn't like, this is probably just my ADD, there was about 10 to 15 musical montages. Yeah. There was a lot of musical montages in this. And I did, there was and here's where I let it go because this is another reason I'm glad we've watched it this far into our exposure to Indian film. This film, if I'd watched this six, seven weeks ago, this film would have annoyed me in terms of time. And I would have said you could have chopped at least 45 minutes off this thing. Yeah. But now that we know the way Indian cinema works and we understand that the theaters, you've got to build in the intermission time and you have to build and have a middle section where the intermission can come and then you can pick it back up, I give a lot of grace to the runtime. Yeah, it definitely didn't bother me as much as it has taken in the past. Yeah, got a lot of- And I think Amir Khan would tell you that of course I could have cut 45 minutes off on that thing. But I'm just not a big fan of musical montage. I'm not a big fan of long, like old school movies have long openings. It pisses me off so much because I'm like, get to the freaking movie! I don't care! That's the other thing with this ADHD is the fact that this guy has zero patience. Absolute zero. None. It's a fun thing to annoy him with because he'll get very upset. But yeah, I found myself getting very upset with the parents, obviously. Oh, with the dad especially. The dad. Yeah. And obviously the teachers, I think were actually the worst. If I'm critiquing acting, the three teachers were the worst actors. Of course, yeah, they were. Of all the roles. And I don't know why they were very big and over the top. They were almost three idiot professors. Yeah, they were. Yeah, which I didn't like it. Which very well may have been what Amir Khan wanted to do in terms of giving them that particularly stereotype. And they may not be too far from the actual truth of what the teachers are really like. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I agree with you. And they all obviously changed in the end. And it was, which is another thing I didn't love. I did. Wrapped up in a little bow. And that, I love that. I love the happy endings. I love the film. Don't get me wrong. I love the film. And I thought it was a great film. And everybody should watch it. I'm just not a huge fan of happy bow tie endings. I was like, that's not real life. It's not gonna work like that. It can sometimes. But did I cry? No. I'm telling you guys. It really wasn't very close at all. I'm not. Usually I'm actually, as I was watching this, and if you're wondering if I cried, I spent probably half the film in tears. You know when it started for me though? I cried in the three areas I've told you. There were moments of relating to this little guy. Which can we just give a shout out to him whose birthday is almost the same day as mine. Is it the Darshil? Darshil's Safari, I think. That little guy. Yeah, he acted amazing. Was fan tech. And the first half of the film, he's carrying it in close up. That's really difficult for anybody to do, let alone a kid who's also portraying a kid who's dealing with some kind of a social disconnect and a dyslexic problem and having to carry the depth of that emotion. Great, obviously, Amir Khan's hand was all over the casting and could see that that kid, I so connected with that little guy. And a little background on me. I'm an only child. I experienced sibling life, not until I was in my early teens when my dad had remarried and that woman had had daughters who became step sisters to me. Scandalous. Ew, idiot. I was an only child and growing up in the entertainment industry, I spent a lot of my schooling, half my schooling was on set. When I went back to school, I never went to the same school two years in a row until high school. And I remember I didn't have the kind of challenge he faced, but the challenges that I faced were, I never connected with anybody because I was always the new kid. I was always the outcast and I was always the one who was from the entertainment industry. And I remember teachers occasionally because I was hyper, I was a spaz. I would have been absolutely ADHD, diagnosed back then, but back then we didn't even have doctors. And I remember teachers saying, different teachers at some point would say to me, when I was being hyper, because I was a class clown, they'd say, Ricky, stop it, you're not on stage. Yeah, thanks. I tell you that now. You do all the time. And there's something else that happened, but I really can't, I don't know if I should share it yet because there's something with this little guy and something he was called. I'll let you know what it was, the fact that he was called an idiot. Multiple times by his father. Someday, maybe when we're down the road, I will share more about how profound it is that our channel is called Stupid Reactions. Long story short, and I'll elaborate on it at another point, but there was a period in my life where I was called idiot boy. And it's right. The fact that our channel celebrates stupidity and idiocy is pretty deep for me, and the fact that every time this little guy was called idiot. And so when he was in the shower, and my mom and dad divorced when I was seven. Well, my parents divorced when I was three. I win. You don't even remember. I win the divorce. I divorce just sucks. And I remember the times when I was living with my mom, my mom had custody, and my dad would come pick me up for the weekend and when he would drop me off, I knew I wouldn't see him for two weeks, and that always sucked. And then there was a time that my mom took me away and my dad didn't even know it, and I was gone for my dad for like a year. So the feeling of having a parent drop you somewhere and you not have that parent, and you don't understand why you can't be with your parent. When he got into the shower and was bawling in the shower, that's when I started to bawl. Yeah, that was it. That was my first, and that was my first connection to the film was relating to this little guy alone, misunderstood, being called an idiot, and wanting to be with his family, and then also being a creative who felt he was just supposed to be. I love the start of the film when he's looking at the fish. Yeah. I thought the whole animation Yeah. was like homeless, his imagination. Yes. was great. Brilliant. Like the planet part. Yeah. His whole, and I did, I can so relate to that. And I'm hoping just like three idiots changing the college. Yeah. The pressure. I'm hoping this changed a lot of stuff in that culture. Oh, man. So. About teaching kids with disabilities and how to better understand them and better teach them because it's very important and they deserve to be taught just like anybody else. And as the school system, you need to accommodate those children, not just ship them off to a special school. Exactly. Like that's just being lazy. Yeah. And right when you said that, I thought I, so I know you don't like the whole wrapping everything up in a bow. Did you like the journey that the dad took and did you think it was realistic that it ended with him in a state of remorse and understanding what he did was wrong? I thought the best part of that whole thing was when he came in to say, I don't want you to think what people that don't care. And then Amir Khan was like, you really don't. Yeah. This is what caring looks like. And then he was remorseful. So I thought that was great because if he was like, I don't want you to think people care. It's like, oh, we know you care. No, I agree. Yeah. But at the end, he really comes to a full revelation at the end. And I know that was fine. Okay, good. I thought I didn't know if you would think that was too much wrapping it up in a bow. No, because I love the part that the dad got there. Yeah, there's that. And then he won the competition. He won. Yeah. Did you see another part that just made me, there's so many parts that made me cry was the when, when he comes around the corner, duck on it. There it is. When he comes around the corner, he just wants to see what the teacher was painting and the look on his face that they captured when he realizes it was a portrait of him. Oh, yeah. That was so beautiful. Yeah. So many moments like that, I thought that were so especially when he realizes and it was a double whammy for the kid when Amir Khan says there was this guy and he's teaching the class. He says who couldn't understand anything. Yeah. He shows him Albert Einstein and then he goes down the long list, right? Then they go to leave the room and he's talking to the little guy. He says, you know, I was talking about and I like him was thinking he was going to say him. And when he said me, I started crying again. Yeah. That was so beautiful. That was a good moment. So touching. Yeah. And then that was a great speech showing all the people that have dyslexia or long disability. True stories. All of those. Like Tim Burton is another, he's he's autistic. He's the most genius directors of the past century. Yep. And he's so unique and gifted. And I believe it's because of that. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So yeah, I thought it was great. I thought it was a great message and so I would recommend this to anybody. I give it an A plus. I love the film. A plus. These kinds of films are the kinds of films I wish that we were making more of here in the States. And let me rephrase that. It's not that. I wish that people were seeing these films. Yeah. Now I do wish we'd make more like them but I wish we were getting more of these films seen here because for me, and I'll get on a soapbox for this thing, movies and acting is storytelling. And the reason you tell the story is because there's going to be a moral to the story. So you have a moral to the story at the end and every film we've seen, especially the Amir Khan films, have an extraordinarily, not just an extraordinarily powerful moral. Important. Important. And the way in which Amir Khan's films can touch on subjects that can offend people and don't. Yeah. I love how he touches like PK with the religious. And he does it without being politically correct. He doesn't take, he doesn't play it safe. But he still doesn't, he's not offensive. It's just you sense every ounce of the honesty and the genuineness of the man. I really imagine if you were to sit down and talk to Amir Khan, you'd find out these are very near and dear important things to his heart because it's seen in the work and it's seen in his eyes when he's working. So just love it. Well, thank you so much for recommending it to us. You all are like six for six so far. Amazing. And recommending great films to us. Thank you so much for not giving us a shitty film. Yeah. Keep up coming. Please let us know what we should watch and review next. So I'll probably put up a little poll for you. And hey, the challenge still stands, ladies and gentlemen. Hashtag make Corbin cry. It's been, what, my entire life? 20, what years now? 27 years. That hasn't happened. He's never cried, ever in his life.