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Yeah. Yeah, no. No, no, no. So, if you'd like to see all the reactions of the romantics, I know a lot of you have been asking. Yeah. It's only going to be on Patreon, I'm sorry, and we're not going to do just a review of it. It's a documentary. Yeah, and we watch all the episodes, all four of us. And we talked about it at the end, but I'm not going to do another specific review off of that. So, if you'd like to see that, unfortunately, the only cut-up one is on the first episode, and it was copyrighted, and I'm not going to just do another four cut-ups, because they're going to get copyrighted. No, they're all going to get blocked. So, thank you to our Patreon supporters, because you've already seen that. Thank you so much. Hope you liked it. Anyways, but today, we got to something we've wanted to get to for a while, because India's going to sweep it at the Oscars this year. India's coming. India's coming. Musical Interludes, brought to you by Idiots. But obviously, we're going to do two reviews in this, because there have been two Indian documentaries nominated for Oscars this year. It's going to be number two. The documentary short, The Elephant Whisper, and the long-form documentary, All That Breeds. Which is interesting. The shorts I'm wearing under here, they breathe really well too. Oh, wow. But obviously, we'll do, I think we'll start with maybe the short one. We'll just start with The Elephant Whisper, and then we'll get to All That Breeds right after. And since it is a documentary, it's going to be a little different than normal review, because you can't talk about it the same way you can talk about a movie. There's critical things you can talk about, of course, and if you enjoyed it and all that kind of stuff, but it's not as like an in-depth review normally. No, it's a lot more subjective. Yeah. Yeah. Just if you enjoyed it kind of thing. So, that would be this. We'll start with The Elephant Whisper. Well, but also to update here. Ram Charan, he was seen leaving the airport to come to Los Angeles. I wonder why. I wonder why he's doing that. He's got about two and a half weeks. It's about the right amount of time to rehearse that number. Hope he remembers the steps. But it's very exciting. Anyways, so we'll start with The Elephant Whisper. If you haven't seen this one, this is on Netflix. The other one is on HBO. I don't know if that's fully accessible in India. I would hope it's even more accessible in India. I don't know what it is. But in the States, that's where these two are available. But anyways, what were your initial thoughts of The Elephant Whisper? I enjoyed it a lot. I can see why it's nominated. I found it to be very intriguing, telling me and educating me about something that I didn't know about. I felt the... Are we doing spoilers with this? Yeah, it's a documentary. We're not going to do non-spoilers. If you haven't seen it, please watch it. For both of these, it's going to be that way. Just go watch them. We're not going to do non-spoiler for a documentary. So if you're interested in it, if you're into animals and conservation, this one definitely can do it. But the other one, very similar in terms of conservation in animals as well. But we're not going to do a non-spoiler. Yeah. And I thought it was interesting because they're both... They talk about similar subject matter, not in their totality. There's a simplicity and a more specific focus that's singular with The Elephant Whisperer. So starting with that one, I felt that, first of all, it was just really touching to know that this kind of thing exists in the rehabilitating of the Asian elephants. Yeah. And I also found it really wonderful to find out a little bit more, not just about what they do, but about who they are, this couple in particular. And I don't know about you, but it was very sad to me when they got the call and they just are told today's the day. And they didn't fully explain why I'm supposing it's because at a particular age, I guess, they want them to have a little different level of freedom. Steph watched it with me, obviously, and she's much smarter than I am. So once again, if I say anything intelligent, it's probably because she said... I steal from her. But we're married, so we share. But she assumed that it was... They're the only ones who can take care of young elephants like this. And so they might have, since it's a new season coming up, they might have needed them for future elephants. That would make sense and get the older one away and let this new one... It was extremely sad, though. I was like, what the fuck are you doing taking that family member away from me? Hearing baby call out? Oh, it was breaking my heart. Yeah, I really enjoyed this documentary. It was short, sweet, and it packed a punch. I really enjoyed this. It was one, talking about the R2 leads, I would say, right now. R2 main people. Such sweet people, too. And her story heart broke, man. Oh, my God. Her husband dies. And then she now loses another child and this other elephant. I feel so bad for this woman. Talk about resilience, man, because even though he goes away, she's still... Her character and mental strength would have easily said, I'm out in so many ways. I agree. They were so lovely and sweet and obviously they knew what the hell they were doing. Amazing to watch the interaction with them. Anytime I watch something like that, it just reminds me of... There's a famous text that says the lion will lay down with the lamb and it's talking about things like the mentality of the most perfect redemptive prospects at the end of time. And it is that particular picture of the relationship of all living creatures together in a place of peace and respecting and honoring each living thing for who they are and what they are. There's, to me, in my personal experience, I'm sure you feel the same way, there's no greater honor I can experience than an animal, particularly a wild animal, allowing me interaction. Because it's a gift. There's nothing you can do to earn that. Something I've always appreciated about India, for the most part, they're really respectful of animals, because obviously it has to do a lot with if you're their Hindu, at least. It's part of their religion. They see this animal as a god. I like that sequence where they got them dressed up to go worship Ganesh. Like I said, for the most part, there's certain elements of... I've never liked animals being used for... I don't want to say work, because obviously some shepherding dogs... Yeah, there's some animals that love to work. And that's different as well. They see that almost as play. The ones that enjoy the work. When we were in Rajasthan, elephants I grew up, I'm not a huge fan of that. And when I see horses walking down the street, they're not working on a ranch or stuff like that. That stuff bothers me. And obviously there's always people that poach and those are fucking assholes. But that's a small percentage, thankfully. But I've always appreciated how Indians as a whole, for the most part, really see animals as... Very much. And they've treated them as equals, as sometimes better than equals. The way, for example, stray dogs and cats are treated, I'm sure it's this way around all of India, but to use Indrani's neighborhood as an example, I remember her telling me about this, and then I saw it firsthand when I was there. The strays are considered pets of everybody. And they're allowed, for the most part, in and out. There's a kitty there named Minnie, who is just the neighborhood cat and goes in and out of everybody's house, sleeps in Indrani's bed sometimes and then left and then was gone for a week or two and then we'd come back, hey, here's Minnie, Minnie's back. She'd sleep in bed when she was gone. And then, same with dogs. There's a dog on the street that everybody knows named Dumbo, stray dog. People will come and pet Dumbo, give Dumbo some food. And if any of them are sick, they typically will take care of them. It's like this community. There's not stray dogs and cats here. No. They become feral if they're not caught. Yeah. Yeah. So you're right. They're not taking care of them. They're the level of care. And I think, like I said, comes from the religious aspect of it. I think so. I think, like, obviously elephants, especially Ganesh, one of the biggest Hindu gods, right? So obviously they seem like a reincarnation symbol of the god, right? Well, central to many Hindus, and even I believe to Jains, is the concept of don't harm any of the living things. And that's one of the reason that you have vegetarian Hindus is its principle in them to not harm an animal. Yeah. Yeah. So I always loved that aspect. It was very sad, like when I got taken away, like I forget the elephant's name, but when he got taken away, it was so, so sad. It was for everybody, for Raghu, for Amu, the little baby, for the mom and dad, for lack of a better term. Yeah. And the fact that this gentleman as well was just so good at what he did. That was their entire life is taking care of these beautiful animals and how I can't, like, there's probably just a handful of places, probably all in Asia, for the most part, maybe some in Africa, that have something like this, where you could to one-on-one, internally interact with them. Interact that way. A magnificent animal, like an elephant. Yeah. When I had the blessing of going on safari, and that sounds such like a privileged kind of thing to do, actually a trip and a gift that had been won by Andrea, my ex-wife at the time. Yeah. So it was an all-expense-paid thing. We could have never paid for that ourselves. But I remember being out on safari, and I dream of the day I could go back, not just with Andrani, but with all of the kids together and the grandkids. And I remember we were out on safari, and you never know what you're going to see. You could go out on safari and see nothing. And there's the big five animals, and one of them are the elephants. And I remember a lady from France was there, and she knew it was our first time going on safari, and she said, you have to see the elephants. You have to see the elephants. She was telling the guide, they have to see the elephants. And he said, yeah, we can't just, we don't blow a whistle when they come. These are wild animals. And when we got to the elephants, we didn't just get to see the elephants. I have video of it. I'll probably post again on Instagram. We got to spend about a half hour at this watering hole and watch the adolescents play. And I mean, they were literally at one point as far as from me to the wall, just playing. There were about seven total elephants. I cried just to see them in their free world being elephants and we just get to watch them. So again, that gift. It was a beautiful, and it was also very well shot as well. Very well shot. Yeah. It's one of those things and that it's, you know, it's hard to really critique it like when it's done well because it's just, if it looks, I mean, if it looks bad, there's something you can say, but also you can't really sometimes critique it as well because you're like, that's not really what they were trying to convey. They were trying to convey the story, not really the artistic in terms of like the visual aspect of it. Another thing about it, I think that's great that oftentimes you don't get because with a documentary, whether it's short or long form, is those are typically revealing some pretty ugly things going on that need to be corrected. This is one the whole family can watch. Yeah. You can have a little one watch this and they'll get sad and they need to know about that kind of sadness in life and, right? Yeah. For the whole family. Yeah. I thought it was a really lovely short documentary. Let us know what you thought about the, this short documentary in The Elephant Whisper and down in the comments below, and we'll now get to all that breathes the other Indian nominated film, the full length documentary nomination of the year. And this one I thought was really, really nice as well, even more so in terms of like the technical aspects of this film were through the roof. In terms of, like I know I just talked about in The Elephant Whisper how it's hard to do that even though that one was very pretty. And it's very pretty, very simple. This one even more so in terms of what it did cinematography-wise with this film was, I mean, it almost as interesting as what it was saying on screen obviously about these gentlemen. Even more sometimes. Incredible. In their rehabilitation of they, I think they call them kites. Kites. Which I believe is just kind of like a hawk. Yeah, it's like a bird of prey. Yeah. What do you think? What would you think? Yeah, and we have not seen any I'm hoping to see the other nominated documentary shorts and documentaries. So there's no way to know who's- Obviously we're rooting for it but we have no other basis. Yeah, no way to know who's going to get honored with an Oscar in that regard but I can tell you whereas The Elephant Whisper has such a beautiful simplicity and charm that this one had a simple complexity and first of all the cinematography absolutely insane was from the opening there were so many times I was floored it was almost as if the living things were moving on Q into frame there's one shot they go down into the water and a millipede comes out as if it was asked to step into frame on Q They must have had a hundred hours of B-roll Oh absolutely and the one I thought okay now you're showing off you goes down and in the water you see the plane fly overhead which the reason that's not just great because of the technical difficulty and beauty of that the reason that's great is because I've never seen a documentary that covers this subject matter which is the way human beings and wildlife interact with each other in a city environment and how adaptation is taking place within all organisms in the city together and do it in such a way as it's not just you know David Attenborough saying well here we have the rat walking around in refuse I love a good David Attenborough but this was so high level intellectual capacity it was really impressive it was and a couple things about the cinematography visual aspect of it a couple of shots that I don't know what kind of lens he was using but god damn there was sometimes where he would have something in frame and it was you didn't know at the time but it was in the distance and they would pull back to a medium and it would be another thing that came into focus with the other thing and then he'd come back even farther and it's this ant like what the fuck lens do you have that's amazing and also unless I'm wrong there was something that was breathing in every single frame of this film like whether it was a human or whether it was an ant or whether it was an insect animal that was living in every single frame but I was looking for it after a while in every single frame of this film and obviously that's a choice of course on purpose and so it was really really impressive technically especially as was messaging because so many deeply important and profound messages were stated in what could be really missed to anyone and this isn't just in documentary the same principle applies to great film making of any storytelling capacity so there's the similarity is that this was a story and two things that immediately come to mind here's the subject matter how terrible the air quality can be in Delhi but rather than give us statistics and rather than have us do narration simply have a distant camera and the little boy coughs and mom says he's coughing and that he can go out after it's registering red and as they start to talk about his fever and get a little more personal they shut the door that was unbelievable and another one was they I think they had just shown the imagery of the person on top of I believe was a mosque taking down the top of it and then they do a quick close up of the kite and someone narrates about religion the mess what they're saying is just something about yeah there was a problem in the neighborhood that's religious but showing the bird at that time spoke volumes of the messaging of we realize that it's only human beings that do this to each other there is no religion in any other life form on this planet but us and what we do to each other doesn't just hurt us it's hurting all of these innocent creatures incredible messaging it was impressed because for a good while you thought it was just gonna be about obviously their journey in the conservation of these birds and that was obviously interesting enough and then they brought in the Muslim what they were going through at this time and the protests and all that kind of stuff that was going on and I thought that was such a I did not see that turn coming but obviously it wasn't like that part of the message wasn't like in your face kind of like they could probably do a documentary just about that entire thing that happened but they kind of they would leave that part in because obviously I'm guessing I don't even know if they set out for that to be part of it but obviously that happened during maybe they did maybe I'm totally wrong obviously I don't think so because if they did then extra kudos for being so soft handed in it even though it was profound and powerful that's one thing I didn't feel that there was any kind of propagandizing or proselytizing or I feel like they just happened upon many things and let the messaging speak for itself with a lens and even something that simple just hearing them talk about early on that they took the kite to a particular rescue place and the rescue place wouldn't help that bird because it's a non-veg bird that's very strange astonishing it made like obviously I get it it's a real thing it's a real thing what? yeah your concept right you realize it's a wild animal a wild animal needing help and it's built and designed to eat meat that was strange very strange but for them it was oh yeah I guess we can't take it to that place because that's the way it is that's the way it is I did not know there was places that were about animals and conservation veterinarian kind of places that would discriminate on animals based off of that fact obviously it's part of some people's religion and that's totally fine but I was like a wild animal right that's like I'm not going to take care of this lion that needs my help sorry we only accept the male chimpanzees here very strange it's a patriarchal vet very very strange but then also their process of getting funding and to build out their thing and then the whole element of him leaving and you could see that there was some tension between the like why are you leaving right and he was like I'm doing so I could get better obviously and all that kind of stuff and you could see like he wanted the other guy wanted him to turn off the camera so they could really have a chat and I wonder his shot from the states and he pointed out that that bird looks just like the kite you could sense the aching inside of him of did I make the right choice I kind of want to be back super interesting that they ended with like him on a frozen FaceTime call yeah I was like what that really meant no other than that's just the stories ongoing and the other thing that was I was happy for them but it broke my heart that these guys that are doing such a beautiful thing in trying to rehabilitate these birds which I loved it when they stole these glasses that they're struggling yet a single news coverage article by the New York Times changes everything the power of some people to just do one little thing for somebody and how that can alter generations and I'm sure the New York Times just said it's an interesting story but that little interesting story when he put the picture frame up and he's dusting it with the article inside of it I thought we take so much for granted in places where we are so richly blessed with so much when there's so many in the world like these guys who they don't care about anything else but helping the birds and they you know feed the birds, tuppin's a bad yeah I thought it was a unique incredible Oscar worthy documentary and like I said I really enjoyed both until I say obviously if I get to see the other documentaries obviously I'll be able to make a better judgment there off of which one is more worthy than the others yeah not that it's hard documentary it's hard man how can you really compare this documentary about birds and has such so many great technical aspects too I don't know let's say there's one about refugees in Syria like how can you even compare like the one doesn't make one better than the other I know obviously it's the same with films too obviously it's which is why documentarians are the ones that vote yeah that's my our favorite thing about the awards at the Oscars is that it's only people of those disciplines that vote on those particular things so documentarians are the ones who know better than anybody else and they also not only know what they see they typically know the stories about what it took to get it made which is a huge reason as to why something wins something because when you film something that requires special access you risked your life there's a lot of factors yeah yeah so I don't know but we'll be rooting for it yep both of them yep I would love to see both I would love to see them and not to not to and those are only three right yeah those are the three that are nominations and I would love to see all three of them win yeah not to not to I'm expecting it'll be a shock if it doesn't get it and I'm really looking forward to the performance as well of rumtron and burn the house down anyways let us know what you thought about these two documentaries which will be our next documentaries we should watch I guess we've seen quite a few documentaries this year so far technically if you conclude romantics the fourth or third documentary yeah of the year yeah which is more than we've ever done in any particular year so if there's other documentaries we always love a good documentary it's just it's a different review than a normal review so let us know what the next documentary should be down below