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That's why we are on zoom, but a highly requested film from last year another one from last year 2023 Indeed even though I need to be is this 2022 which is very strange I know it did say 2022 and I actually put that when I put it on the list because it said that No, no, it's not is it? It came out. No, it came out sometime in November. I forget. Yeah But another one that we definitely didn't get in theaters here too small of a film, but starring a whole bunch of When actually not a whole bunch one Dost three of us Yes directed by I Say his name Hold up my sorry. There we go. No, no, no. I've got it. I'm pulling it up on imbb. It's just it's just slow It's it's Avinish Arun also written by yeah, and he did but the lock. I believe he was one of the directors. I think on but the lock with Jadip and also starring hopefully future dosed Shafali Sha and It's a What's his name? Shwan and her here Who you think in a quite a few things just off the yeah, we have to be thanks to radiates typo che Barfee. I'm sure actually quite a few other things that we've seen him in Yeah, oh the the director was also the cinematographer on this Wow, so Directed in cinematography now. Wow. Anyways, it just came out on Streaming so and it's a smaller film so we're gonna start with non spoilers just since it's a newer film and it was smaller and it just came out and so I know it not as many people have seen this as You know other things so yeah, that's how we will do this Rick your initial thoughts of three of us Yeah, and by the way, it's the streaming platform. It's on it's on Netflix Netflix. Yeah We're we just keep we just keep hitting it out of the park I can't remember the last time we were on a string of films back to back to back to back to back to back that have been So good and not only good because you know a good film when you see a good film But it's this time of year when we're watching the best of the best because it's award season and the past like six films We've seen yeah are as as good as it gets and and I say a lot about this film, but ultimately what a beautiful Wonderful I I personally think this is I'll talk about this in the spoilers because I want to give nothing away If you just want to watch another film that is beautiful writing beautiful acting Yeah, a lovely score and a very human story with some moments that are just as Lovely as it gets to watch actors act and directors tell a story watch the three of us on Netflix. Yeah Another one that would have changed the favorites and the dummies easily And and okay, so here's the thing when we did all that It was the end of the year and I was like I need to get to this This is the time that you do these end-of-the-year things because if you get too far in the year It's it's just weird timing to do something like that I think right so you want to do it like right at the end of the year And so that's why we did that but during that time because I heard like no wait wait wait And the three films they told us to wait for were 12th fail a Cuffle the core and three of us and three of us those were the those and there was actually another Marathi one that we will get to Well, and also and then there was also the play The Malayalam one. Yeah, but people haven't seen that and that's that's a this-year film. That's not a lot. Yeah, that's true That's true That's you know, we would have seen it last year because of the Indian physical also the film festival, right technically a this-year film And so those were the three and I was like I will get to them and we did But if we would have gotten to them before the dummies and our favorites They would have been totally changed in all categories. Yeah, and so we apologize for not getting but that's that's what happened But yes this film So fucking brilliant, right like this yeah, and then there's all so different The couple the core this and in 12th fail so beautiful in so many different ways But all three and including LJPs from last year But I would actually probably push that below the other ones in terms of what you would submit to the Oscars just because of Accessibility that one takes a lot more nuance and like understanding of culture and Indian movies and right up like that Even though I would send that one way over what they sent These three are so accessible to Western audiences Yeah, that you could have if they're if they weren't eligible like if any of these three weren't eligible for last year Because I don't it's it gets weird sometimes with how they're when right least They should be at the forefront for for next year's Oscars if they're eligible, you know, preach preach because all three are so brilliant somebody this one reminded me of And I loved it way more than the film about about the reference The film with Francis McDormand a couple years ago where she was the traveling and the traveling woman. Yeah That's a good film I Like this one a lot more but in the room referencing it because it's almost like just a fly on the wall and These are little segments in your piecing together this person's life And have you seen have you seen past lives yet? Not yet. I will win the screen You will notice Huge similarities Not in the sense in any way shape or form that I that I think these stories knew about each other or copied each other Yeah, but they're very very similar films in a lot of ways subject matter. Yeah pacing Silence saying as much as words sometimes more but even the subject matter It's very very similar and that's a compliment because past lives is in the conversation and should be for for Oscars I don't know the sags kind of screwed the pooch this year and a lot of respects I don't know what the hell went on with the nominating committee this year But and I think I do believe anybody Any adult can appreciate this film solely because a subject matter I think if you know anybody who's not mature is going to be bored because they're not going to understand what's going on Yeah, the nuances if you yeah, but if you've got some life experience under your belt Not just biological because there's people who can be 45 50 years old and they're still really immature I mean you've you've been around the block and you've lived some life and you've seen some pain this is gonna have some connectivity and profundity for you and and it's one of those things where you see a Mirror reflected in who we all are I actually I'll talk about this in the spoilers, too I would have given it a different title for a particular reason that's related to a spoiler aspect of it, but yeah Score is lovely Jai deep and Shafali are are just there's one one particular moment that is so Lovely she's lovely I just yeah, she she actually would that would have been a direct change to the dummies She would have won best actress For I couldn't argue with that. I gave it to a shawariah and she's still deserving But obviously, I think I would agree with you. I think I would have given it to her I think I would have given it to Shafali job Yeah, I think I would have and Jai deep would have been nominated whether he would have won I don't know I'd have to think about that one more. She had obviously the more Complex role even though I thought Jai deep did a phenomenal job and I'm loving his choices Because obviously when he started when he started out He was probably in the same that no was was they gave him the gun and they were like be a villain and he's a great villain But now that like especially since after pot a lock and everybody's like oh this guy's good He's just like I get to choose whatever I want. I'm getting to sink my teeth into fun fun things and he did such a good job obviously Shafali is You you could be hard-pressed to find five actresses better than Shafali Shah in in India just different All you would get is different. You wouldn't get better because she is always so fucking good And this one she like she usually carries this Regalness almost about her in terms or like this a strength. Yeah, she almost had And not say she wasn't strong because she was but she was almost carrying herself Lighter it felt like she was I Don't know really had to explain it But I was watching I was like this doesn't seem like the same Shafali Shah and obviously she's just a phenomenal actress And she's able to it's able to do that. She just did such a good job It's a testament to her capacity because you're absolutely right her essence her persona I think is a person because it conveys and most of the character she portrays irrespective of what they're going through Yeah, she has a kind of strength. It's not the same kind of regality that taboo has but it is similar in terms of this sense of Foundational power that is inherent in who she is and in this character. It's still there, but there's some cracks in it There's some fragility to this character not broken this. Yeah, there's a lot of fragility that is is simply The only way you do this is when you're an actor who has the capacity to fully incarnate a character from the text and Your backstory work and you're not trying to indicate or pre-shape anything You are simply so aware of what you're doing as a craftsman that you can you can you can do that It reminded me a lot. I don't think you've seen May December yet, right? Yeah, no Sags screwed the pooch. I don't know why they didn't nominate Charles Melton. He's getting an Oscar nomination No, his his his character in May December is a very complex character that at face value most people might not recognize but for anybody who's really familiar with script and character analysis and He's he did a similarly Oscar worthy level performance easily and she has such subtlety in it because if this was in a an experienced actor's hands, they would oh god It would be indicating and be awful It would be painful to watch because they be ruined. I have to show you without giving anything away I have to show you what's going on right now Constantly, it'd be awful. Yeah, I could visualize it in my head and how awful it would be and she's with JD. Yeah, and she you could just see that Is she the phenomenal actor she is man, she just Shouldn't have to do anything but you're gonna you you're gonna appreciate past lives when you watch it because it's it's Very very There's a lot of similarities. Yeah, a lot of similarities. Yeah, her and JD did a did such a good job. They had such great chemistry I Felt their past In in their shuttle in the subtleness of the writing which was a shout out to that I thought the husband also who we've seen in quite a few things actually did a very good job He had as I I would even be tempted to put him in a supporting role in the dummies And Jai deep's wife was wonderful. Yeah, she was wonderful as well. The writing in this was subtle and beautiful The school human was so good. It was just like The essence if you don't like flying the wall films I like this film because this is like the almost the essence of Flying the wall film so so many films this year. I was making a list I'm gonna put it on Instagram of the films that I've loved this year both from Hollywood and from India The majority of them are flying on the wall films. There's there's this one. There's cough of the core. There's the play There's yeah 12th fail. There's Past lives anatomy of a fall these are all the kind of films where you just want to sit back and everybody's so Believable you just feel like you're watching human beings go through these experiences and you feel this connectivity because it's universal and yeah, this easily could be a Submission because like 12th fail like cough of the core they have definitive Indian this and They have universal connectivity that everybody from any country would connect with Yeah And so yeah, I love a div basically Thank you for waiting because I know a lot of you have been screaming for this Thank you for for waiting But if you haven't seen it, please go watch it now because we're gonna get these oils right now on Netflix And it's actually only it's like an hour and a half. So it's a very short very short Indian film That's a wonderful journey and it's it's beautiful. It's subtle It's it's it's wonderful in all the ways that that you like if you love cinema So please go watch that because now we're gonna get into some spoils Get spoiled bitch There's the queue. This is for those of you who have seen the film get spoiled What were you gonna say you said you wanted to something about the title you said Yeah, well the first thing I thought when I was watching this was in many respects This movie is a ghost story Yeah, I could you could take this story and Mike Flanagan who does these kinds of things He could easily turn this into a horror film not because there's anything inherently scary But because this is a story about people who have hauntings from their past. Yeah, and Because so much of the film also included More than I anticipated it really did include Jideep's wife. Yeah More than I was expecting with a film called three of us and with what she's dealing with I I don't have a problem with the three of us I think it's a nice title, but a film more along the lines of say just remembering. I Think that's two on the nose It and maybe I'm wrong in that way. I think that's just my first I wouldn't mind a different title I wouldn't mind a different title, but I something too on the nose like I don't I don't like Like past lives works and you're gonna you're gonna see the similarities I just and I this is one of those films that is is so superb at show don't tell there is Zero exposition in script. Yeah, you figure it out. You're going along for sure You realize she has early onset dementia without anyone saying the word dementia You just you know because the writing is so good and the performances are so good But that's what's going on and you understand These people have a history and no one needs to say anything. You know something happened at the well And there's there were I need to know The shot when she's talking to the woman that people said was a witch She's sitting there and they have that that stagnant shot on her and there's an opening to her left That takes you out into the night sky and there is a moon with clouds passing by it. I Thought if you guys got that shot with just nature helping you out. What a serendipitous shot. I Love to know if it was I have a feeling it was. I don't think that was CGI vfx Yeah, it is but yeah, but was man It was great that whole scene. I thought was beautiful because it was It left with a lot of questions, but it also gave you a lot of answers of a little bit into a river past But it was also so like Unique it wasn't like normally like with some of these stories like of people One of the worst diseases in the history of Watching somebody you love And them fading away basically That's one of the worst things I can think of agreed, but A lot of times it'll be like stereotypical things. Oh, I want to remember this or I want to like and they're doing certain things But they're like this one didn't really go in that route because they didn't really like They didn't even go that too much into Jai deep and her and what their relationship exactly was They left a lot of things unanswered They obviously they gave you some answers But like they kind of let you piece it together and I love that because and the complexities of each of their marriages But not the supporting this of each of their partners great great spouses who are so understanding and loving because you could totally understand like Jadip's wife and be like why is Why is this lady here all these years later and she wants to see you why and you'd understand it was like no that's what why And now you're writing poetry again. Yeah, and then the other guy was like you never you never loved me like this Yeah, and that you were never this happy. Yeah, and so obviously these natural questions that would come about in this type of situation But I thought it was beautifully written and and how they they did all that I thought yeah Because they never got angry with each other. It didn't turn into fights. It turned into wanting to understand And and the other moment I was referencing that I is from me There's many times there's takeaways from a film where you just are impressed with something There's a there's a moment for example in maestro where Bradley Cooper's conducting the London Symphony That's a standout moment that you remember from the film the standout moment for me is That beautiful conversation they have at the top of the Ferris wheel. Yeah, that was a great one and the choice I don't know how they rigged that shot But I think that shot up there and they had some background people who had to sit there and stuck on the Ferris wheel But they didn't move they just kept us tight on that beautiful tender Vulnerable but still protective and and the sweetness with which they both have this deep connection But they know their lives are so different so they don't want to do anything. They like each other spouses And and another film if you guys are interested in watching a really magnificent portrayal of early-onset dementia that goes much deeper into symptomatic problems Julianne Moren still Alice is is a fantastic fantastic film about this I think it was the father from a few years ago, right? Great film with Anthony Hopkins. I got great great But this was this was different very really lovely and that we just got to see a couple of days where she knows the diagnosis But she's yet to really start to get the symptoms strongly that it starts to affect her. She's she knows it's coming Yeah, and that that's that I thought it was sucks beautiful multiple things here But when she got up and danced and then she just oh That moment what beautifully done by Shafali And subtly done, but you're like you can see it in her in her face I don't know if she forgot where she was or if she's just yes She forgot the steps or she was always a little bit behind Yeah And you don't know if that was an experience or just what was going on But then she opened her eyes and you saw the horror of basically what was going on in her head I thought that was she's or maybe maybe she was terrified that she's gonna forget this And I yeah, I felt that the cinematography and direction choice in that moment was superb It let her run to that column and they just left it there And they left us distance from her with that column there and they didn't move that shot It was perfect, and I thought the the end shot was actually very brilliant. I Agree her standing at the I believe it was a well at the well. Yeah So symbolism there and stuff like that and it was at a moment that you're like, oh, I thought the film was gonna keep going Here but they kind of I you know, I love ending on a strong shot Yeah with films and I thought that shot was absolutely brilliant left you with so many questions But gave you enough answers as well It was just this this this entire film was absolutely and I don't even Artistically, I don't know he would rank these films like gothalla the core three of us And this one and then LJP's film from last equally as of a brilliant film just in a very different way As all these other ones But it all three of us I don't know what would have been left off of our list in terms of best picture because it would have made a really hard we had I think nine I think in our in our best picture and Three of these films that we just saw would have a hundred percent if not one it Been in the been in the conversation for best picture along with a whole bunch of other things I would have changed all the categories acting directing it would have been Very different and that's why you guys the and the final shot you referenced You know that really the the the icing on the cake the cherry on top of the Sunday The piece de resistance is when you reach the end of a film and When they they end it and the feeling you have is a satisfaction that causes you to go Because it's such a good ending This is one of those films. It didn't remind me some people said when they watched this in the holdover back to back They gave them the same like feels I don't know if it gave them the holdovers. Yeah, I was like it was very different feels for me for the holdovers Even though I get it if you do talking like a Satisfied vibe I guess because it is this But the holdovers are very different so I don't very different film I don't know about that because it's it's hard. It will be brilliant any time you do Something with all-timers or dementia Man, those are hard films because next and I should have been When I was talking about the films that are have come out holdovers is another one if you haven't seen the holdovers Please watch the holdovers. It's a great film. Yeah But other than that man that was a what a film man What a film? Yeah, beautiful And unfortunately none of these films can be in our dummies next year except for The play obviously the play that came out Unless they end up including some of these in the Oscars, I guess for next year then we'll we'll revisit that and I guess technically Has Berlin had theatrical distribution yet, but we included in last year's So again, we'll see what it does Because yeah, that has not had theatrical distribution but Very strange. I mean maybe this wasn't submitted to The film festival Indian film festival Los Angeles, but very strange that this one wasn't Included. Yeah, but you never know if they actually submitted it So well if they already had Netflix distribution, they probably thought and and Netflix may have said no Well, no Netflix was with the shawlsville Netflix was there. Oh, that's true. Kufia. They were next looks. That's true. That's maybe that's maybe they I don't know. I have no idea. I'm Anyways, if you see it, obviously if you're here, I hope you saw the film already If not filming you now, you're all spoiled. So that sucks for you But let us know what you thought about the film. I feel like if you didn't like it you're weird And what should be the next film we watch down below?