 Good evening. Sean Conner, no. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Rags to Do It's on Corbin. It was Alfred Hitchcock. And he follows on Instagram and Twitter from all geniuses. God damn dear. It's so juicy. A single or some Patreon, follows us to the Carmelineville home. Hitchcock. Follow us on a personal YouTube channel. Link's right down there for you. Yeah. This is whiskey and coke. This is the blood of my enemies. What time of day is it? 9am. It's about to clap somewhere. Anyways, today, little babies, we are doing a Marathi movie, a movie review of a Marathi film. Is it Marathi or Marathi? Probably both. Probably both. I think it depends on what time of the day it is and whether or not you've had your Jameson. We are reviewing Court, which we've heard an awful lot about. And I remember us liking the trailer. And it also was Nawaz's when we asked him his favorite Indian film. And also, I can't remember it was Niraj or Ali or somebody else mentioned it. Somebody else also mentioned it as well. This is our fourth? Yes. Because we've seen Natsumrat, Sarat and the factory one that I can't pronounce. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's exactly right. This is a 2014 film directed by Sehne. I got this down, I'm going to throw this this way. Chaitanya Tamhani, I hope that's the right pronunciation. And it is, when an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system. That's a pretty fair assessment. And I know probably a lot of you actually probably haven't seen this. So this is, we only use for reviews really except for new films. Except for a new release. So go watch it, come back and then you will be spoiled like the little naughty boy you are. Yes. Rick, I really, really liked this movie. Yeah, it was one of those was really, really good. It is a film. Yep. By every definition. By every measure of what it means to be a film. Really, really excellent filmmaking. Just I enjoyed everything. I feel like if you love cinema, you'll probably really enjoy this one. If you are just into films like War, you'll probably despise this film. Yeah. No, this is a film. I know people who they like just like action and box office sludge stuff kind of stuff. And this would irritate them. Yeah. And for us, it's like, yeah, it's anymore. It's one of those, it's a fly on the wall film almost by every, like at every moment. Yeah. Literally every moment. It is crazy how much this was just viewing people's lives and almost to the point of the film. Yeah. And I actually have a question. Do you, you may know the answer. Do you think the choice, and I fricking love it. It's like a lunchbox, but even more so, do you think the choice for the cinematography to be so static in virtually every single frame? Do you think that was an artistic consideration or just a budgetary consideration? No. I think it was artistic. I do too. Well, it was because it wasn't just it wasn't one, two, it was, they stay like after scenes done, they almost stay on every shot for a good couple seconds. Like one of my, one of my favorite shots that was annoying, but in the best way. And then another shot that I thought was just lovely, these static shots. When they're eating at the restaurant and you're at the other end of the table and there's the four of them and they're eating, I so badly wanted to be up close to them and get some closeups and see their faces. But it's the exact same feeling you have when you're sitting in a restaurant and you overhear a very loud table and you're just enjoying looking and watching and seeing the conversation that they're openly having in public and you kind of wish you could get closer. So it was annoying, but in a good way. Yeah. How about when the court finished for the day and they just, and they just let it all roll to the point of they stayed on it, close in the door and then letting you sit in the dark. Yeah, they let you sit in the dark for, it felt like almost a minute. Yeah. It was a long time. Great. Yeah. And there's been a lot of fly on the wall films in every industry. Hollywood's not unaccustomed to them by any stretch. They're usually considered for Oscar nominations in us because it's an artsy film, technically. Correct. It's just like, even though it wasn't my favorite film, like Manchester by the Seed. Right. Fly on the wall film extremely. Sure. And then also, I think another film that either came out that year or Call Me By Your Name was a very, that one had more of a relationship, but it was also just a fly on the wall. Yeah. This, I think it was almost the point that it was a fly, like 100%. Life goes on and there's multiple things I think they were trying to point out. One, obviously there was a lot of stuff with the court system that they were trying to point out, which Coming from American, what they were doing in the courts was hard to grasp. At certain points? Yeah. Because it's like, wait, they didn't have a warrant. Why are we talking? Why do you even have a case? Yeah. If that's not even admissible when a warrant. If he didn't have a warrant to get into the house and he went, everything he found in the house is inadmissible. Is inadmissible. Right. So just, I'd take myself out of here. This is not in America. This is in a different country. They have different laws. The judges going by that country's laws, like they're supposed to. Okay. But it was like, there was multiple things that happened. So that was one of the points. And then also another point that was clearly made was, this is just life. This is their work. And that's one of the, it's not just an Indian court. That's one of the most impressive things about lawyers and all those people, like they can be going at each other in the courtroom, right? And then right after, they'll probably go for lunch together. Because they're colleagues. Exactly. Yeah. Right. But they made that point even more so, especially with the Indian culture of each of these people, like even though this whole court from this gentleman was lasting a long, long time and years and years and years, these people's lives goes on. The judge, the prosecuting attorney, the defending attorney, like this doesn't control their life. They're not talking about it afterwards. No. He's got summer break. Although I thought this was a really lovely, the way it was depicted. After that scene at the table when they leave the restaurant and they're walking on the street, the people who represent that minority religious group that were offended, that the prosecuting attorney was saying he offended them, assault the defensive attorney. But we never see it. Yeah. It just goes off frame and we hear it. I thought that would- And they don't bring it up again? No. It's just, this happened. That's what the whole film was. Yeah. This happened. This is an unimportant thing. Right. But it's not a film. And I love that it was depicting the way, and I read a little bit about the film itself and what the director was wanting to do, the inception of it, because I wanted to know if this was a true story or not and I know that it's derived from true stories amalgamated of what the director has seen and been a fly on the wall just sat in court rooms and watched, which I've done. I've been a juror in court cases. I've also been to court as a person who is involved in the case. And I love watching the legal process. What I loved about this was these were real attorneys that are the kind of day in, day out. Big money-making attorneys that you see in high-profile cases like the O.J. Simpson trial or even the case depicting pink, where everybody's really polished, really good. These were the kind of, and that's what the director apparently wanted to depict, was when you watch average attorneys in small courts, they're usually not really prepared that well. They're not extraordinarily articulate about what they're talking about. And it's kind of mundane and kind of boring. The other thing I found really, and I assume this is the way it is in courts, a differentiation between that and American courts. In American courts, what the stenographer does is take down everybody's comments until there's an objection sustained and the judge then says, you'll erase that from the record. The only time the stenographer recorded something is after the discussion, the judge went, okay, so this is what you put in? Well, no, I think, unless you read something different, I think she was doing the whole thing. She was doing the whole thing? She was taking notes for him. Okay, I thought that was the way that we- Yeah, I don't know you guys might know. I thought she was doing this stenographer, and then, which was still weird, that like his notes would be, she would be basically taking notes for the court, because that's not how it is here. Stenographer is literally just writing everything, just everything. She's not there to take notes for the judge. Right, she's just taking everybody's comments. Yeah, it's the record of what is said by everybody. Yeah, so that was interesting as well. Yeah, I thought the director did a phenomenal job. And the title of the film is- Yeah, Pretty Planetary Perfect. It's just showing you the day in the life of a lower court system. Yeah, and also, they would go, like first it was the attorney, and then it was the prosecutor. Yeah, her life on the bus, just about the price of stuff, and the price of olive oil, and I was like, they're just, they're just not important to what we're doing. Right, this isn't carrying the story in any way, this is just showing us what it's like for people who are involved in court, and what life's like. And then at the end, the judge, she was going about his life, talking about everyday things, like they're not consumed with any of these cases, and after one case is done, they're on to the next one. There's no drama. And I'm waiting, you're waiting to see at some point, like, okay, here's the love interest, guess not. Okay, so here's the antagonist, and they're gonna have some climate, guess not. Oh, we're gonna get into the conspiracy behind a vet into suicide, and why he did them. Guess not. And we're, okay, now we're gonna get into how the judicial system's unfair. Nope, I guess not. That was another great thing that these kind of films, they don't, they let you like, okay, what do you think this film's about? Exactly, that's now like, because it just ends. Yeah, like it just, like they don't go back to the person who you think this whole thing was about. Right, that just ends. It does, in my opinion, what a great documentary does. That also a great actor does. And that is, you don't judge the character. You don't judge the subject matter. You just observe it, and then you present it. And I really felt that this was a very good job of presenting what it is, and you probably can make some assessments of things, like for example, I've noticed in just watching news that comes out of India, as well as the films we've seen, there's something that goes on in the legal system in India that you don't hear about here in the United States, and that's this thing called abetment to suicide. And it is, apparently it happens, we've seen it in how many films now where it's depicted as a, where somebody has found guilty in the context of abetment to suicide. Yeah, because it's not a thing. That's not a thing. Like I can tell Rick to go kill himself. I can't be held liable for that. That's free speech here. Exactly, they tried to do that with gaming, saying that the violence in gaming causes the violence in people didn't work. They tried to do that with NWA and the censorship of hip-hop artists and said that because of them, people are more vulgar because of them, that it just, it doesn't hold up. That was one of those other things that I was just kind of was like wrapping your head around. It doesn't matter if he even, regardless of if he did or did not say it, I'm talking as an American and coming from our legal mindset, I'm not saying anything about it. We're not judging it. No, but coming from an American, it's like, what, this is, this is free speech. And obviously we've gone through, folk singing like Bob Dylan, he got arrested multiple times. Big time. A bunch of, he got arrested, you can go into the world of comedy and you can see, you know what I'm talking about. From the 1960s, he's in, they depict him all over the place in the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Why can't I remember? No Rick, it's not Al Capala. Oh my goodness. He was the first, Lenny Bruce, Lenny Bruce. He was one of the first comedians to really get in trouble for being vulgar on stage. And shattered the glass, shattered censorship issues for comedians. At that point, we were going through that similar thing of censorship of free speech. Right. Obviously it's not real. I mean, obviously there's still some instances where people debate what is free speech and what is not still. But like anything, I could tell outside of, like if I told the president to go kill himself, he's the president, so they'll probably. Yeah, that you can't do. Literally any kind of a threat. Like you can say anything to the president and if you don't believe us, you're not looking at Twitter feeds enough. Cause there's like, what's his name? Mike Monahan or Callahan the actor who goes off, he's a New Yorker and just goes off telling Trump to get out. Oh really? Oh and he has F-bombing left and right, calling him a piece of this and he's sucking that. You can do that, but the moment you do anything that's remotely close to I hope you kill yourself or you're gonna die, the CIA's paying attention to that. But if that's not, if like in a song, you say it cause there's songs, especially in the 90s, emo culture, like a band hem or all this kind of stuff that was all about, like they talked about cutting themselves and all that kind of stuff. They can't be held liable for the people that actually did that. Unless there is stuff here, the bullying issue was really, really huge where if it turns out that someone killed themselves because there had been a repeated nonstop assault on that person saying, kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself week after week after week, that does follow, but it's still not given that title. It's not given an abetment to suicide. But yeah, so those are one of the things and there was a bunch of other questions like the war and thing and then old laws. Like he cited the old law from colonial rule that's just this random thing from like the 1800s. The fact that there's books that are illegal. Right. Yeah. Like it's a bunch of stuff as an American, you have to even though we've been in the Indian culture, it's still strange to hear sometimes. Right. Like cause you can read Mein Kampf if you want here. Yeah, like even Mein Kampf, it's not, it's technically here, it's free speech. Right. You can say that's why we have races that are openly racist here. Right. Cause it's technically they're right. They're free to do that. That's why Salman Rushdie came over here when there was a threat on his life for what he wrote. I enjoyed that and I think he was making, there was a couple of points he was making, that the one that the life goes on and that kind of stuff with these people in the court system and then also some of the gray areas in the Indian law as well that I think he was trying to make a point. And I thought he did a brilliant job. Cause everybody, obviously there was no one main actor in this. But everybody, it was like, that's one of the great things about flying the wall. Everybody felt like it was a real person. I believed everybody. There was no 100% of the person in this that I thought was not believable. No, I was in awe, frankly, at how much no one felt the need to perform or do anything. Yeah. It literally, you know, especially on the long shots when he got arrested at the paper place whenever they were working. Like there was this guy who, and I'm assuming he's a worker there, but he was folding the paper. I was mesmerized by him. Yeah, I was mesmerized by him. So I'm assuming he got like a real person to work at his factory because I was like, there's no way an actor could just pick that up. No way. Right off the bat. No, that guy's been working there for years. Yep. And maybe it was a real judge because just the sense of no need to rush anything. Letting the audience get bored. Yeah. Which is a very dangerous thing to do. It is. To let the audience get bored. Yeah. And I love that. So yeah, this is, I would, the only caveat I would give to people is if you're not a lover of cinema, you probably shouldn't, but if you love cinema, this is high on the list of movies that you'd want to watch. Yeah, and I know there's only a bunch of people that probably haven't seen it because it's a regional film. And it's an art house regional film. Yes. So that limited scope a lot, kind of like the other films that we've seen, Amis or stuff like that, it's just, I know a lot of people, even though I know I won a bunch of awards and it got a lot of acclaim. Which is wonderful. Which is great. Yeah, that's wonderful. I'm glad it did. It deserved it. But this was also a Patreon, a Patreon every single month gets to choose one regional and one Hindi film a month that we watch. I do a poll and all that kind of stuff. And this one won, which was great. Yeah. So if you'd like to do that, even at the dollar tier, they can do that on Patreon. So let us know what you thought of this film down below. What is the next Marathi film? It's been good stuff coming out of there. Yeah, which is your favorite still, I'm guessing the factory. But that's gonna have a special place in my heart for a while. That one's probably more rewatchable. 100%. I have to be in the right mood to watch court. Well, yeah, yeah. It depends. I loved Sarat. I thought Sarat was a fantastic piece of cinema. But yeah, I mean, they've all been strong. They've all been very strong. It is very similar to like, Malyal. Malyal. They all have been really well acted and good stories. So let us know. Fandry, I know is one that a lot of people have raved about in time. And so if there's others that we should watch, let us know down below and upload them so we can see them. And I was about to say onto the next episode.