 Yeah, I picked this movie This is actually one of the first movies. I usually always recommend to any American who's never seen an Indian film The only reason I didn't is because Cassandra and Daniel and I'd already talked to Daniel on my channel About this film already. So I wanted to pick something and nobody had seen before or else. I would have picked this movie first I love this movie. I think this movie is Like a warm hug almost I Just I like this movie a lot. I love the actors in it And I think it's really easily accessible to a lot of Americans In terms of able to being to digest certain Indian films And I think it's just a very simple beautiful film and that's all I'll say about it And I'll let everybody else talk now. So what did you think about the movie? Anybody would like to anybody who'd like to start I'll go first I guess why not So I I Definitely enjoyed it. I Will say it reminded me of a lot of different things Namely in the mood for love in a lot of ways. I'm sure the people who've seen that probably thought the same thing Not a bad thing though Definitely not a bad thing to be compared to the other thing it just made me think of is like the world of movies that Proves the thesis that cooking for someone is the most intimate act you can perform So that is like a big thing in the movie like water for chocolate or in pig even if you've seen pig I think that's always a really interesting thing especially like just as a in movies We're like yearning is doing a lot of the work and there's no physical connection or no physical Like acts of love between the two people It's always interesting to see like what the stand-in for that kind of thing becomes so it's the the letter writing and the Cooking and all of that kind of stuff But yeah, I thought the performance. I mean, I thought it was a really solid movie overall for sure I definitely really enjoyed it. So Yeah, I think those are all the points that I have to bring up about it at the moment, but Yeah, I'll go third or fourth. I'm not going second It's such weird rules DJ. Yeah, well, of course I want to start already before and I fell in love with the movie pretty much right away. I I don't remember when he Asked he already had passed, right? Yes When I watched it the first time and I just was just like all I knew about him was like life of pie It's just like everything here and they're like amazing spider-man and movies like that, but Jurassic world Jurassic world Yeah, but he was phenomenal and phenomenal in this film, of course and I got more laughs in this this time around I guess, you know, usually this is a translation thing. I think last time I watched it. I watched it with The different subtitles or something like still still in English, but it was like poor like with Amazon if you have it on It adds like extra stuff here and there that kind of gets lost And so I turned off the subtitles that Amazon puts but it still keeps the subtitles for different language, but The Replacement his replacement. Yeah, it got me the most laughs this time around Siddiqui Yeah, yeah, he cracked me up I was telling you to like how I thought like out There was supposed to be some kind of turnaround with him where he's gonna like maybe still letter or just something crazy like that But it was nothing like that It was just some guy that just wanted a friend one of the mentor And so I enjoyed it. I got pretty misty eyed around The end where he was like waiting for her not waiting for her but just like sitting there watching her and Throughout the whole film too with like their letters back and forth and just how that that was their main form of communication It's just a good way to show like hey They don't even have to meet each other But they just were able to like build a friendship or a little bit more through that so Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot I really like this movie a lot too. I want to hear more people's Opinions on the I forget if it was Shack or shake that character on on his arc Because I the whole that whole thing kind of fell a little bit flat for me But as far as the relationship between the main two go, I really appreciated it a lot. I Am always a fan of Stories told through like the lens of like food and love Like Ratatouille or you know chef or like there are dozens of examples But especially because when when Emily and I were like first falling in love Food was such a big thing for us and a big part of like what we bonded over and and like why Every time that we got together would be like going around to LA to try different places and stuff and So I always really appreciate that when when that is a bonding experience for characters in movies I Really love how Understated this movie is I love My favorite moment in the movie probably is like the two and a half minute or however long it is uncut scene of him Trying her food for the first time and like not really fully understanding and then Kind of slowly like communicating to us that this is not what he expected, but it's like Excellent, but he's not he's not like oh my god. What the fuck this is sick Or even like the and we've seen it in movies before but just because it's Played out doesn't mean it's not useful to do like when she smells Her husband's shirt to realize that he's cheating and things like that. I I actually got a lot of Emotionality from What was unspoken in this movie and I think that that's probably part of why a lot of this stuff with the Shake character fell flat to me because that I know that I Don't I don't necessarily want to make this criticism because this is just like a Total like cultural divide because from what I know of Indian cinema it can tend to run longer and it can tend to be Especially more so than American cinema and there was a lot of this movie that I I personally would say for my taste could have been cut out but like I Also spend three hours a day watching tiktok. So like watching anything longer than 90 minutes Can be hard sometimes when you're watching in second videos all day long But yeah, he was awesome in this She was you know, she didn't have a whole lot to do but but in her part she really Filled it very well. I really love the dynamic between her and the unseen character her neighbor Yeah, auntie, I didn't know if that was a lot of like a Lot of like island nations will call older women Auntie and I didn't know if that was the same thing in yeah, I mean Every to everybody that is everybody that is older than you is Auntie her uncle that is not that is not in your family essentially So you a random guy on the street that is older than you you'll say hey uncle Okay, hey auntie. I got offered a seat on the train. Remember. Oh The other thing I wanted to bring up was that I didn't know prior to this movie About the this delivery service. This is crazy. I mean either I say Mumbai, but it's all over but like I guess that's just where large populace is but I Would have loved to know that before going into it to like pay more attention to the the Delivery aspects of it the guys carrying the shit on their shoulders and like picking through all the bags and stuff and then I saw a video of the director talking about how When they're like doing their religious chanting on the train that that's something that he found that they actually do That in the morning when they're doing the deliveries. It's like very serious and it's very like Supposedly there was a study and like only one in every six million Meals goes is delivered to the wrong person. Yep Which is I guess part of why the I don't know I don't know if it was actually the thing he said in the movie is actually what he's referring to that study He's like Harvard Harvard came they actually did The king of England. Oh, I don't know about that And then the after that though when they're bringing it back home at night, it's like a more loosey-goosey type vibe so they can You know I have their singalongs But yeah, I would have I would have let I'm sure in a couple years when I rewatch this movie I'll pay more attention to that aspect of it. Yeah, it's otherwise. It's kind of like you don't really understand this this Kind of like door-dash thing that's going on and it's kind of like this missed connection like That Keanu Reeves like a mailbox movie type thing just like connecting through letters but And through time the lake house Oh and through I thought you're saying a different movie Yeah, it's been in a couple different movies though But yeah learning learning more about that afterwards. I I did appreciate that aspect of it more And it also speaks to like the idea of the whole train thing like Getting off the getting on the wrong train and ending up the right place like One six million and and the two of them end up falling in love What about you Emily I liked it. I thought it was very sweet and I I Like to the themes it touched on like I like you know his sort of struggle with getting older and Feeling unfulfilled and you know looking always over at the family across the way and you know feeling like he's missing something and You know having like this plan for his retirement and then kind of rethinking everything once he you know meets this woman And then has you know everything changes and he starts to come to terms with his like age and just his you know It was like a bit of a Christmas tale type of thing where it's like, you know a crotchety old man turns A crotchety old man becomes like Softened through love, but I think that it's very heartwarming. Nonetheless, and and you know Just really Good story arcs for both of them. I thought the little girl was like the cutest little girl I've ever seen in my entire life And Yeah, I just you know the Thing like some really sort of interesting metaphors like The man upstairs being sick in bed and looking up at the fan and her thinking that looking at the fan is the only thing keeping him alive and That kind of like sparking something in What's his name? The main character. I Forget Yeah What is that like a yeah, can you explain that for a minute? I actually think that is a I've heard there's actually a big Indian actress that has the last name for Nandes So it's I don't know India was colonized by a lot of people all different places from the Spanish to the French to the English obviously And so let us know in comments. Yeah. Yeah, they'll let us know because I I You're a natural if you think that's the dumbest thing you've ever heard But yeah, I thought it was a very sweet movie and and you know just Thematically things that are always gonna be enjoyable to watch and and relatable and and I Agree with will I think there were a couple times where I felt like it could have been trimmed down a little bit but honestly Overall, I I didn't find myself Like the last movie and we watched Indian movies to no no You wanted to Yeah, we're like there were so many times in that movie where I was like, what are we doing here? Like this one. I I didn't really feel like that like I didn't feel my myself being Feeling like it was stretching. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also love that like you said Corbin And I watched your I watched the video that you and your co-hosted about this And I don't remember if it was you or he that said it but referred to this movie as a warm hug and I I like that about this movie and I like that this movie can do that But still leave you unsatisfied at the end. I yeah. Yeah, I wanted to talk to I wanted to talk to everybody about the end I don't I don't like it when everything is wrapped up with a bow. It's very it's very commercial. It's not for me Movie where they deal with you know things that are like this is gonna sound Mean, but I don't mean it that way like things like themes that are a little bit generic like You know a wife who feels detached from her husband and blah blah blah on a man getting older and like those types of things like Things that you deal with often and like pretty generic like love stories and stuff. I thought it was actually really Great that they didn't tie it up nicely and kind of make it Generic and make it like so many other what if I watched this with my wife and my cousin who had never seen in my wife had but Right when it ended that she was she was really into it and then it turned to black and she put her hands Which is like what the fuck? Yeah, and she was very upset that did not tie it up in a bow So I didn't know if some of you felt that exact Is in like real cinema, I don't need that. That's what I that's what I watch Christmas movies for. Yeah Fuck there was yeah for me I feel like it makes it all the more better and just like it leaves you longing, right? It leaves it open leaves you longing and it leaves you like thinking about it And I just think if they tied it up in a bow, I'd be like, okay Probably wouldn't put too much thought into the movie. I mean, I'll think of the movie as a whole but not put too much Thought into the ending I also think that it's just much more honest that way like I think that I think that it does a disservice to the storyline of the film and in particular sorry fixture if you want and in particular like His arc as a character in the store in this specific part of his life that like he lost his wife He's looking continuously longingly from his porch across the way He has in that letter that beautiful portion where he talks about you know, when he watched all the shows that she recorded and He watched all the shows that she recorded and he wondered why and when he finally got to the end of it He realized it was because he'd be out on the porch Fixing his bike and he would catch her reflection of her enjoying them watching them in the tv And he was like, oh, I just wanted to be there again And I wish that I had looked longer back then and I think that like If they tie it up neatly and they go together or they wind up together I think that he's back to circle back to what I was saying like I think that it does a disservice to his to his arc in the film because He's so unhappy with where he is knowing that his wife is gone and that now he's alone And when he sees her and he realizes how much younger she is I think he's only left to realize that like Oh, I'm just going to leave her in the same place that I am right now Sure, it might not be for a while and we would have some time together and it'd be beautiful but like Yeah, inevitably I will die much sooner than she will And she'll be left in the same place that I am but I mean the limited knowledge I have about Indian culture is like She's not going to really be able to take another person past that at that stage in her let that late stage in her life and like So I enjoyed that the movie like I don't want to say dare did be You know honest or like, you know Dared to not take the cheap out because like so many great films do but I think that that's like Just one of the markers that made this film great. Like I like this movie a lot. I agree with will I think that like It's interesting. I would delineate it to like I don't think any of the character Onscreen moments really needed to be cut for time. Like I love watching him as an actor I think he's always so interesting. I think that all of his choices are always really strong I think like Even when he's unpacking the lunch every day and like taking that moment to smell it like even though it's Something trivial like you see the novelty there You see how much he's appreciating each moment and like how beautiful it is to him And I'm engaged as a viewer. I'm not like Stupid like it's a fucking lunch. Just put it down. I fucking eat like no, I'm there and I I enjoy it But like I think that some of like the establishing or like just like the generic Shots ran long and we're unnecessary could even cut, you know cut a little bit like also That's just nippy shit that like doesn't matter. I think that like ultimately on the whole the movie was like Oh man, it was beautiful. I think that like I well, I I mean it's interesting that so many of you especially will and emily that you guys said you weren't exposed to this This food delivery service because I know that there's an I'm trying to remember the name of it There's a netflix. I it wasn't one of those chef's table ones. It was like one of obviously wasn't one of those it was like I don't remember if it was an episode of Um What the fuck anthony gourdain or if it was If it was like an episode of kitchen confidential or if it was just like a documentary But it was something and it's on netflix and they have exposure where like they show all of these Women that cook all day in their kitchens And are making all of these, you know steel tin containers like six layer containers of food for lunch to be ordered out for everybody um And I think that when you know when you when you have some knowledge of that like it's interesting to me that like This film was was this courtroom. Was this movie released outside of india? Like how big was the release outside of india for this movie? I don't know how big it was in terms of where it went A lot of people wanted it to be sent It was at can yeah, um, but like Especially in 2013. I don't know how big distribution was for like theaters Outside of india because it's not even here now Um, but they wanted a lot of people wanted to be sent for the oscars for india's submission It wasn't Okay, but yeah, I i'm not sure so guys in the comments. Let us know Because like this movie going to can obviously makes sense why there's like so much exposition and like establishing of like Taking all the the lunch pails picking them up taking them on the on the bikes all of that like It makes sense because there's gonna be a there have to assume that there's going to be a fewer base that knows nothing of this culture knows nothing of this um We'll say this though that most of the time that i've found in my 400 movies that i've watched from indian cinema They almost always just make cinema for indians um, and so they don't like they're not oftentimes thinking about a world audience In indian cinema they're mostly even though obviously they're happy and they distribute it and they like it when obviously other people appreciate it but for the most part from what i noticed is They're almost always just making it for indians Okay, then that's interesting why they would put so much of that in the movies They already know everything that's going on there, but yeah, just to wrap up like I love the movie. I thought it was really special. I thought that Like, you know, like people have said I thought that all so much of the unspoken So much of the non dialogue moments were my favorite moments in the movie. I like Sheik Shek. I don't I also don't remember which way they pronounce his name in the movie. I liked him I thought he was I thought he was like funny comic relief and I also thought that he was like a Necessary component to like Soften him up bring him out of his shell, whatever, but yeah And to show him soft His name is no, he needs going to have dialogue with yeah, exactly to show that yeah Yeah, his name is no was it insidiki. I can't wait for you guys to see what he's actually known for Because he's he's fucking brilliant, but he's normally playing a villain Oh, cool. Yeah, he's fucking he's so he's so brilliant like he's done I know you got some of you didn't like the film but ugly the director of that on your ag has worked with him many times And gotten some absolute brilliant performances. He was in lion Yeah, he was lion. I think it was a tiny part though. It was a tiny part. Yeah, I haven't seen a long time said um I've been sitting here wondering Ignoring everything that you guys have been saying since I stopped talking because I talk and then you talk and I wait until I get to talk again Um and uh I was wondering What if the husband Cheated on her because he was like She doesn't give a shit about me at all anymore because of the cauliflower He doesn't want to he doesn't she doesn't give two shits about giving me gas Don't make me cauliflower every day gives me gas Oh, man. I was so angry at him, but obviously I understand his purpose in the film, but I would just like Look at your wife He looks great. It was such a sad scene when he was just ignoring her. Oh, yeah Yeah, oh also before uh, we get too far. This is not for you guys This is for uh everybody watching follow all these lovely people on all their social media platforms and also they're a professional Uh endeavors. Uh, we got uh up here beautiful bagel makers Uh, Emily and will Oh you stopped. I'm sorry shit. Uh, but they're beautiful and a wonderful sarai is a wonderful musician and actress Uh, the sexy dug down here is a actor follow him on instagram Show slide into his dms. Cassandra is a wonderful actor tj right here is also a musician fantastic musician down here And the wonderful Emmett down at the bottom is a fantastic Writer if you want to know anything about horror ever go to him or movies in general He's a absolute. I know he hasn't talked yet, but he At elon musk real I imagine that we're gonna do a little Yeah, I will I will You know All the all their instagram handles will be down on the top comment. I'll put in the description as well Uh, but anyways, uh, Emmett now that I've talked you up. What'd you think about the movie? Uh, yeah, but it was good Good sweet. All right. We'll see you guys next week All right, there's my setting inside or I mean knowing the way that corbin's channel works. We'll see you guys in three hours No, I I uh, yeah, I really enjoyed it. I I kind of um I agree with will a little bit in In regard to the shake character. Um, but I do understand You know, I think Doug was uh talking about him About it as well where I do understand that he's sort of like a necessary counterpoint like he serves a function in the plot That needs to be there and and that's totally fine. Um, I guess it was just the Story arc concerning him just sort of interested me less It's not that he was doing anything wrong performance wise It's not that the writing was necessarily too poor or anything like that. I was just kind of more interested in the like you know, sort of Longing between uh airframe con's character and uh The wife whose name I'm forgetting now, but um, you know, yes um I I'm glad that that's where I brought up in the mood for love because that's a really good uh comparison point um I don't know if I can say I loved it as much as I love that movie I think they're also, uh I think they're also sort of uh looking to accomplish different things and I think that this is like This is like a perfect cross section to me of a movie that is dealing with um themes in like a very honest and and and uh direct way while also Making a very obvious commercial play like it works as a commercial film while also it's not sort of Taking the easy route on any of its sort of like thematic concerns And I think that that's a really hard tightrope to walk and I think it does it really successfully um, I wish Although I think that the filmmaking style served the purpose in terms of like The focus is so much on the performances and I think that that's a Strength of the film. I think I wish if there was a more distinctive visual style Maybe I would like Ratchet it up that one extra notch for me, but those are all like nitpicks for me. It's not really like I you know, I thought it was a pretty beautifully Performed film and it's essentially a three-hander. You know, you're not like you're not bouncing around uh dealing with a large ensemble of any kind so the fact that you know, you're Pretty perpetually engaged throughout with quiet performances. It's not even dialogue heavy either. Um, I think that's a really uh You know, it's a sign of of the move that the movie's working um But yeah, just overall I thought I thought it was pretty Pretty gentle which I Would just like was kind of what I needed today. So that was like a lovely A lovely experience watching it with it, you know, it's pouring rain outside And I was in my pajamas inside coloring with my dog in the movie. It's like this very Sweet but not sacker and sort of gentle experience, which I really enjoyed. Yeah Yeah, earphone uh the lead in this earphone con who is probably the most recognizable I'd say indian actor most people wouldn't know his name here in america. I'd say but they've seen him Probably in a couple things because he's been in like spider-man movies life of pies Jurassic worlds Uh slumdog who obviously a lot of people have seen as well. Um, but he's all the life of pies All the life of pies, yeah All the pies all the flavors. Um, he was actually supposed to be an inception He was supposed to be an inception uh, nolan wanted him, but uh Earphone turned nolan down for this film. Oh, who was he supposed to play? Do you know, uh, it's on the internet somewhere It's on the internet so I don't know the comments below. Please comment below But um, yeah, I he I call him one of the most effort effort effortless actors I've ever seen in my life Uh, it just doesn't even look like he's trying. Um, and it's absolutely amazing So if you guys in the future want to watch any earphone con movies just do it. It's He's he's he's a joy to watch and he was he was taken way too soon Um, and it's so interesting. I want to talk to you guys about what what about was it just That his character wasn't as important or what was kind of annoying to you about the um, the noasis character um It was just that you weren't as interested in that that that um storyline I I felt I had no issues specifically with him It pulled me out of the um What I was enjoying about The relationship between the two of them it was kind of detracting from What I was getting from them emotionally like what the movie was feeding me okay, um Before you asked me that question, I had something I was gonna say. I'm sorry TJ, why don't you talk for a second and then and then we'll think sure, uh Well, I didn't want to go last but not um, oh my god like the draft Yeah, like everyone's starting off. I liked this movie. Um, uh, it's uh, I think that Some good things were brought up that kind of like made me like things more like Doug that was a good thing you said about how It's like why wouldn't Why was he feeling that way? It's like, oh, I would possibly leave her in a similar situation because I'm older um Um, and so that makes a lot of sense Sorry, you know, I don't apologize. I Love cute dogs all the time. Um, oh, there's a screen or there's three of them on all of them. Oh my goodness It's a dog party. Um But yeah, so like I I made some notes like just some specific things that like really stuck out to me that I did like And then some things that I were like if he on um To bring which it's kind of great that people weren't bringing up very specific things So I can be the person to do that, I guess. Um I it was already touched on but I really did love the anti calling up thing a lot. Um, Especially the part where She's like the audacity of him not saying thank you And then she goes down with the peppers with the peppers and then does a little like shake Of them like to make them that was great Um And I'm like That's right anti Uh, it's a little salty today. The yeah the salt jokes will agree Yeah, and the mentioning cauliflower the cauliflower every day um was Was really funny And and because you're like, oh wow these guys have been making cauliflower every day because he came And told him he's like we got to keep making cauliflower It's like it's not funny because The husband's being a dick, but it's funny because you know why he's getting cauliflower every day and that part's funny. Um Getting cucked Story of the the story. Sorry I'm gonna have to Um, wow, sorry. I'm so sorry. Um this suspected. Um groping What maybe comfy but like in a way that I Because I was like Like would have would have like, oh, I have an analogy. Let me talk about this analogy. I'm like, why is that the analogy? That you decided to pick Um, that's what a letter ends to that. That's Yeah, I'm like, okay, uh, but it at the same time, so it just made me uncomfortable. I thought it was funny. Um then Oh, the I thought the line where he said Oh, I didn't kick the cat. Um, I actually pushed a blind man in front of a bus Um, and he's like, sorry, better watch out. I just walked away and the guy's like What and I like that he never actually tells him it was a joke And I was like this dude's sick. Like he has a sick sense of humor and I kind of like it It's like sneaky Uh, there's more to him than just being like this grumpy Carmugian of a guy. Um Um, I really like the guy. Um, the supporting character's line Uh, where he says my mom always says and then says the line He's like, if I didn't have mom, he's like, I'd just say my mom because it tends to mean more to people um I thought that was kind of like a cute little line Uh, a moment for them Uh, oh also the file smelling like food when they're walking out of the office and he's like I always smell like carrots and onions What's up with that and I thought that was a really and he starts trying to rub it Like trying to rub the smell off um And I also thought another funny moment was when they're taking the wedding photo And the family just starts pouring in And then right after the family pours in the camera, what a good use of a pan the camera just goes Like as if we're like in the camera guy's perspective and being like, oh, well, I might as well just um So those are all moments that like I really liked. Um And I thought were funny. Um So so things that like kind of made me feel a little like off I guess here there was um Uh, I'll mention that one for last but uh, oh there was a moment where when he First wrote back his long letter the first one where he started getting a little more deep I thought there was like a missed opportunity For like after at the end of his letter after saying all this stuff I wish he then commented on the food like I wish he's like Also, there's something something was this like I'm just like I wanted that because he was already doing that And I expected Like a little banter could have stopped eventually, but I'm like not yet like him commenting on By the way, this was the things were delicious after he just said this was something I could have used. Um Also the letter writing although it was great I I was already I want to I think that would have been a little too flirty a little bit Because I think one of the beautiful things about this is that it's not really they don't know that they're falling in love Really? True. I I get what you're saying I feel like he's not like the way when he's talking he's talking about the first letter letter Uh, so at that point, you know, he does not know that he's falling in love with no Uh, what's her face? Well, I'm talking about the letter that when he So it's after the spicy thing right and then after the spicy thing he writes the letter After he got the spicy There's one more letter after that um That he writes and it's the first one where he really opens up And I'm like I was just expecting a little comment on the food there. It's all on that one Where I don't even think it would have come off flirty as much as it would have come off like I feel like he's kind of just like a very like straight shooting dude sometimes and Obviously everyone in the office thinks he's like a dick So I think he's like kind of socially unaware Even that he's a dick in some ways. Uh, so I just thought that would have been funny, but Writing did you Yeah One of my favorite lines in the whole movie is is about what you're saying when when he's talking to his boss And he's like, you know that I would never cover for someone And I thought that that was such a funny thing to say like, you know, how much of an asshole I am Yeah Yeah, it's like a really good that's a good awareness of character uh But yeah, the letter writing started to get slightly Just ever so slightly monotonous for me, which are I wish there was like a different way to show it than the same table um shot from like Side angles straight on angle this angle this angle Obviously that could be for budget restraints. Who knows? Um But it's just like, you know, it's so much reading back and forth pen pal letter stuff I wish there was like maybe different areas different locations of the building He could have been reading these letters could have made me like feel like I'm not watching the same thing so much um Him saying he had a girlfriend was weird Why do you have to go and do that? That's what I'm calling on the movie being a problem. I'm just like, bro Like, oh, yeah, she's my girlfriend. I'm like it's also It's also uh weird in the cultural sense, which obviously they brought up A man of his age having a girlfriend is like a big You know, which is why she was like, you know, if he actually you I'm just like, uh, you're just supposed to like sit down and die At his age in india, which I which I guess plays a lot into the movie and and honestly You know that's something where I was kind of like Well, I understand that he's older, but she's like in her 30s Like I don't understand like wow, they couldn't have like Some sort of romance despite the age But I think that looking at it culturally and like I do feel, you know, I think anyone who gets that age Probably feels a sense of like, oh, I'm old. This is wrong or like I'm what am I? I'm nothing at this point, you know Especially in india for sure A daddy culture in india corbin, but there's not there's not a daddy culture in india No, it's it's quite the opposite it's uh You're just I mean we're like 15 years apart I don't know how I don't know the specific age. Yeah, you know, I do find it interesting in certain in and countries I guess we're like maybe there's more of a culturally ingrained Respect for the elders in a way that like doesn't necessarily exist in the culture in america. Yeah, but there's also like a weird Othering of them and like neutering of the older generation too. It's like you respect them But then you also deprive them of all Like sexual agency and the ability to be seen as attractive or sexy and I find that to be a very interesting Yeah, like way to to look at aging. I guess it's just like the way different cultures approach that stuff is so interesting to me But I never thought about it before. Yeah, I think it's really interesting how in Like in other cultures It's so much more common than at least for I mean, maybe you guys know more people than I do for like The grandparents like move in with the family when like time comes or whatever But if they don't have a family to move in with it's kind of just like Well, I'm just here then until I die. Yeah, right No, that family that family culture is massive in india Yeah, you're expected to take care of your parents When they get to a certain age Right And they live with you the school that will and I went to growing up there was a very large indian contingency and The neighborhood as well that we lived in had a had a was a very densely populated Indians and I mean I have Friends that you go to their house and there was like three if not at times four generations people living in The same house together like Yeah, six six bedrooms all six bedrooms are full four bedrooms all four bedrooms full and two of them at bunk beds I'm like, it's just how it is but like yeah I thought one one thing aside from that really different Unrelated but back to the movie is that I love the foreshadowing almost if you want to take it as that No, I'm not trying to raise my hand. Sorry I love like If you want to take it as foreshadowing line when she says if you cook him food like that He'll get you the Taj Mahal and she's like the Taj Mahal. It's a Comes back around doesn't it? It's just a pretty thing, but there's nothing there I'm standing grave. Oh my god. That's sorry. That was so depressing. Oh my god the standing god I've never heard of standing graves. Yeah vertical grave site In a country so densely densely populated and also where I'm assuming that there is not super big on cremation Yeah, the point you have to do. Oh, no, they are they are Okay, no, it's it's that's the primary one But obviously there's every religion in India. So if they're not hindu if they're not like hindu and practicing That way then they might be christian and want to be buried So it's it's there's just all different kinds of religions and cultures in India. So I'm guessing he was more of a Christian realm What but you If you were gonna get a vertical grave and you didn't want to stand could you ask to get buried upside down like a Fuck, you know bat like vampire I don't know maybe That's super goth of you because that might be what I'm doing if that's a possibility What a way to go You have other notes teacher Um, I have two more but I'm gonna let will go. No, no, no. I don't want to go so Well, now I don't want now. I don't want to go. I'm gonna mute. I mean, I got some I got some little things but like I Showed Emily's sister on the zoom. Oh, man um Go ahead tj. Well um Well the last two things I was gonna say and one's more of the over encompassing thing, but A small other thing is I thought it was a Interesting choice to have him Smoking towards the end Uh, I thought it was going to be kind of like part of the arc that he stopped smoking Like because of what you said and I thought he did but then he started smoking again. I was kind of confused what that exactly showed me Make a team addiction Right Zingers remember his twitter handle is sin Yeah, I think what I was trying to communicate was that he wanted to smoke and he had the ability to smoke Yeah Okay, um, but plot wise I I'm sorry jam. That was good. I meant that was good plot wise. I think it was just more I think how I saw what he was started smoking again was kind of like Remember how like when he was having the nose back and forth and um, his colleague was like You're glowing, right? You you look 10 years younger, but then after the fact after he saw her He kind of just was accepting the fact again that he was old so he went back to his Old ways that makes sense. Yeah, but then I assume that he's still then ain't guess he had like A a third thought and Then I assume went after her on this train. So yeah, who maybe that makes sense um So you asked about the ending and like how I felt about it and so he's interesting because In one way it it did feel really predictable like I'm like, okay, this guy. He's a curmudgeon He's gonna get softened up by like This cooking and these letters with this woman and then also this guy who's his friend. So all of that was Like, you know highly predictable and Could kind of like feel where it was going and it's interesting. They're like, I guess By the end it doesn't end up going completely where you Think it would but I'm like When there's enough predictability at the beginning do I almost want it To go there because it's been predictable so far As opposed to like a movie where I'm like always being left guessing the entire time I would expect an ending where I also am not really sure Because like I don't know if I'm the only one who thought this but I thought they were like really setting it up for like I'm like, okay So this guy's cutting vegetables in his suitcase And like he also like he handles the numbers and he handles this thing or whatever and I'm like, hmm That'd be a really good person to help run a restaurant and this Women's food is so amazing and he really enjoys the food and they're both enjoying the food and then this guy understands numbers So if they're gonna open up a restaurant That's the thing is that the tone of it early on felt predictable enough time like that's where it was gonna go But I honestly was like it's gonna be cute enough to be fine with it um So it was like interesting because like again I am don't want a predictable ending um But I didn't necessarily feel like the film But you did want to see the restaurant I did I I mean that would have come only only because Only because I felt like the film was going there for me. So I'm just like well, okay I I'm I'm like I kind of want to see that movie. I'm not I'm team rest. Yeah. I know it sounds cute, right? Because that's kind of what ratatouille is in a way, right? Like I love ratatouille. So I don't know speaking of the ending. What do you what do you guys actually think happened? I think that I think that the lunchbox happens. That's in my brain He realizes that they can't be together, but they can be together in this way So you don't think they don't think they ended together You don't think they ended up together. I think they ended up together just because I care way less about their relationship and I care way more about more about the rest I do think I do think that they ended up together, but I obviously I'm glad that he left it open ended Um, because if they did it just be I feel like that'd be too much back of course Yeah, for sure pendulum sort of thing, you know, I think that as he was going to find her She saw his dead wife I told you I said here we go And he was like wait and then he sees her and she she tries to hide her face and she goes You got me and then that and that starts like a whole new cycle of like where she been Why did she not want to be with him? She's like don't look now. I'm dead So when this movie started when when she was cooking Emily and I have had our dinner plans tonight And I knew that like she was gonna want to order in because we usually order in when we do club And I was like no and then she started cooking and I said Ask me now so that I can say no to you so that we don't have to deal with this later And she asked me if we could have indian food and I said no and then when when The scene where shakes sits down at the table with the two bananas, which is a cute little callback to him being poor I'm saying that poor people eat two bananas. Oh my god. I love that bit so much where it's like footage of people standing outside His words that we're going, you know, you know, a lot of people just have two bananas Um But anyway, then when he's when when he's like try some and he tries some of it. I was like, all right, we can get indian food Yeah, so much indian food tonight. Yeah, I am all about that Like I forgot who mentioned how just like the food can be used as like a love language or something like that and it's It's used a lot, you know Like an anime too. And so as soon as she was like when she was writing the letter she was like, I'm sending you paneer. I was just like Sexed let's go I actually I actually made that paneer on not on osr, but on my personal channel Is that paneer cofta? So it's probably my favorite indian thing I've ever had in my life. I made it actually the day he died Uh, your fund died because I just wanted to do some I love I love that man so much But yeah, the the whole food thing that's all of indian culture food is Food is everything That is how they that is how they do everything is by food That is how they show their love that is like indian parents. I've learned this. Do not tell I love you to their children I like vocally And so like the way they say it is that they say it they tell me through their food through through all this kind of stuff It's it's it's a deep deeply cultural Obviously foods obviously cultural in every culture is probably pretty deep, but it's it's especially deep in that's a fair trade Do they mention that in an episode of master of none? That indian parents don't say I love you. There's a whole episode about that about um, the I don't I think he's korean The korean characters dad and aziz on saris dad and about like how they relate to them and And um, how they're not really like super open about Loving them and stuff. Um, oh my god, but my dad's white and he doesn't love me Oh nip busted We watched we watched this really hilarious movie called truth or dare. Um Last night. It was so funny But there's this one Asian character and he's gay and he's like there's this whole thing about like how He's like, oh my dad is like such, you know, like he's so Homophobic and like I can't I can't tell him I'm gay and then like his Thing that he his like truth that he has to do in front of his dad is Tell him that he's gay and and and like it's everything's just the dad is so accepting Literally all this dad wants from the character is like to go see his sick mom in the hospital And to like try and communicate with him more He's so nice to him and the the kid is just like he's gonna hate me if I tell him he's gay Yeah, or if I tell him i'm gay That's a homophobic and then he like tells him and he's like everything's fine and they don't even really touch on it again And it's like So what what other movies you guys want to talk about that aren't the lunchbox Let's talk about the other word Talking about speaking of food um, I gotta go make dinner with lauren, but uh Hey, uh, lauren's name is on the internet now Lauren this is the back of her head. She's watching tiktok. Thanks anyways Copping on the real real I want to uh, I want to thank everybody for for watching this movie. Uh, and and thank you for talking about it with me Corbin Corbin Corbin what what what we got to close this with the best line in the movie Oh, okay. Sorry. I had one more thing about it. So Buy him it 95 nice I'm not giving eight and five is not giving my score on the recording That's not happening Now they know we do scores uh You can edit that out Corbin, uh but I'm surprised that no one talked about no one talked about The part which I thought was like really intense and dark Is the the story of the mother jumping off the building. Oh with your child Yeah, that was pretty good And then the moment where he's Sitting there and obviously it's like because he's having this weird thought of like, oh, no Is the lunchbox is not going to show up and I'm like, it's gonna show up. Come on. It's gotta show up That's not what it's not going to show up and the rest of this movie is going to be him trying to track this person down To start this restaurant called the mother box filled with blood. I like this bit that you're going with tj Right, you like that's you yeah, but I remember hearing that in the taxi and I'm like, Jesus Like this this movie is a warm hug, but it's pretty dark Hug talking about I'm wondering if that actually happened and they they took it from an actual event that was happening implemented it Yeah, yeah Yeah, but but so this movie. I'm glad this movie did add some like serious parts like that to not make it so light um But if it was lighter The lunchbox of your restaurant Well, the restaurant be called the lunchbox absolutely Has to be did you think that when they were meeting at the restaurant that they were going to meet at the restaurant And then the waiter was going to go man. I love working here, but we're about to close Yes We just needed new we need a hold on hold on did did anybody else ever think they were going to start a restaurant? No, no Before I even started the movie. I was like this is going to be about a restaurant All the lunchbox and it's inside Oh my god, I didn't I I had a thought of it A little bit, but really it's when he was chopping the vegetables because it was him to be like Yeah, I can't I can't do all the things. I'm like That seems like it's a That's the most incredible vegetable chopping I've ever seen Lea here She's sitting at the table drinking water and a waiter comes over and goes you're drinking too much of that water You got to pay for that and she goes not anymore. I'm the owner And then I mean even in even in the moments where um the two Actors are like sharing a meal from across each other She keeps going. This is so good. Like she has magic hands. What is this? So I thought that he was gonna push more and be like She needs to like show off her talents or start a restaurant. I just thought it was like Getting to that. I don't know don't watch a double feature of ratatouille and chef pj lea My uh, not on not on the restaurant. My wife has okay one more question one more question. What is she drinking? If if an indian if an indians drinking something it's chai Okay, okay now I know Have you ever had chai I mean, I've had chai I've had not not starbucks chai but not And I've had it from a really good coffee shop in different variations. No, you've not had chai indian Okay, but also corbin. There's like a bunch of like persians also have chai and for us. Oh, no, I know Fuck corbin It's just tea. Yeah, that's chai That word means tea though. Oh, I know but like in india that means chai it means chai Who heard my joke who heard my joke? I did not I heard I said and that's the chai Nice I have one more thing to say to make fun of tj. What movie is it? Yeah, yeah, did you think that she was going to send him all these interesting flavor creations than the lunchbox and That was going to play and the colors and he was going to go egg planting butter No, I I'm glad that they didn't I'm glad they didn't go like Foreign direction like that would have been like too much. Um, it was pretty good I kind of wish they had because I don't know that I've ever seen that. I love that food Okay, wait, also, what's that green? Is it like a green bean dish at the big? What is that first dish? Uh, the the one he it kind of looks like green. Yeah green. I don't know what that is In the comments, let us know because I'd actually I've never had that looks so good There's there's a couple dishes. I've never seen before that. I really want to try Yeah, I'm cooking Eggplant made like that either Oh, yeah, in that in the documentary thing or Bourdain episode I'll have to find it and share with the chat but They talked about so one section of it was was with one of the women who cooks the lunches every day And the other section of it the other half that was with a family who doesn't cook Because of the westernification of indian cuisine now they have fast food everywhere. And so this Their kids don't want home cooked food anymore. They just want like McDonald's and kfc and burger and like the parents are just eating kfc with them And that's what the person was talking a lot about was like, how are you furthering your cultural awareness and the history that's so enriched in And steeped in your Country is is all tied to your food if you're just eating fast food all the time and they were like Oh with the kids like it and it's so hard to get them to eat, you know Doll and things and like it they just want the fried chicken and it's here and it's cheap and So I wonder how much of that corporate if you know it all is like Still ongoing is still prevalent is growing. It's not like I don't well that I would they were they In our eyes non-resident indians like they lived here in america. No, were they in india? They lived in india? Yeah, oh, yeah, no, I our eyes Our resident indians Nice Yeah, I mean, obviously there's west there's fast food over there. So it's it's it's quite possible. I don't know I know food is obviously at least when it's Families growing up. It's still very prevalent. But yeah Yeah, maybe in cities like mumbai and deli that are a lot more urban. Maybe it's more Prevalent like that but as opposed to more rural areas where they usually always eat at home and make homecooked meals for People going to work and stuff like that. So Doug Is the series called cooked? Yes Who's the host? Thank you Yeah, it's michael pollens I also want to give a compliment because this movie is so much about indian food indian is the one cuisine That i've never had a bad meal Anytime i've ever gone to an indian restaurant. I've never had a bad meal Nice I don't know why that is I've had horrible chinese food. I've had horrible thai food I've never had a bad experience at an indian. It might be too spicy for me I might need two bananas to extinguish the flame Hey, sometimes but like Yeah, I've never had a bad indian meal That's fine. All right. Everyone's favorite indian dish Oh Sog paneer. Sog paneer is fucking amazing. That's pretty good Paneer kofta. I also like americali cultures Uh, they're those are bomb It's really hard. I mean my tear coughs is always like yellow paneer kofta yellow curry yellow doll and vegetable korma Although I need to have it made Vegan so it's usually with a coconut base. Yeah, still good. Yeah It's probably pretty hard. I mean in simosa's dub, but I mean like I could I could eat simosa's for life and just all day everything The silliest is there's this restaurant that will and my mom loves so much It's like the what corbin you keep moving around. It's like You keep switching Well, it's like the it's the whitest indian restaurant. It's called flavor of india and they have On the menu. It's dolly parton's chicken tikka masala Because dolly parton flavor of india that restaurant the original one in hollywood was like her favorite restaurant I don't know might be I don't know but and that was her favorite dish at the restaurant So they named it after her they gave them they gave for the name rights to it Well, if we ever want to do club that's my mom's favorite fucking thing to order from that restaurant We ever want to do club in person. We can know come here and order indian food and I can make you chai I don't want to do that. Okay. Never mind. Bye I don't I don't know what it's called But there's a fried paneer that one of the places we order from Has and I really like that a lot and then what is the other thing called alutiki chat alutiki chat It's like it's he patties and it has like onions and tamarind sauce and it's a potato patty Yeah, potato patty and then chickpeas. So good It's chicken tikka masala like eekah down on in india Is that like the whitest thing to like it's technically not even indian food. It was created in england Uh Yeah, I was like so that's my dad's favorite. Yeah Obviously that's probably the most popular dish that and butter chicken butter chicken is actually butter chicken is so good All right, I know what I'm having tomorrow. No, no that's I mean all these words are indian Obviously the way it's cooked is is different like if most indians if they come here, they'll think the food is absolute shit That's all we ever get told anytime. We eat food over here. Really? Yeah America has Dominoes I've ever had in india No, no, that's a funny story about that dominoes Uh, is it dominoes? Yes, uh, I think it was dominoes. They serve mexican food in india Really? We asked because we wanted to know like hey how how prevalent is mexican food in india And somebody said I've had like tacos from dominoes. I'm like what? I've heard that the mcdonalds in india also has spaghetti Yeah, uh that I don't know. I don't know My friend went to india when we were in high school for like a study abroad type of thing And she said that at the mcdonalds they had a spaghetti dish allegedly. Oh, wow. I did not We went to we went to mcdonalds But they have a it's a they have a much different menu in india. I didn't I don't think it's all spaghetti Am I in those dinesies? Yeah, that's crazy. These little spaghetti Also jolly bee which is a fil Filipino channel in los angeles. They have spaghetti there at the at the ones Yeah, and they put the spaghetti in the hollow hollow. That should it's so crazy gosh anyways Thank you guys so much for talking about this film. I'm gonna go ahead and in this video So we can give scores because we give scores to films, but these chickens don't want to give it on the internet Particularly tj that's because he thinks the restaurant knocked it because a few points because it didn't end up in a restaurant I'll never get to eat at the lunch box. What if this movie ended with them franchising a mcdonalds? And I'd be really upset Anyway, just kidding spaghetti all follow all them I will put all their instagram handles and then all that uh on in the comment below and in the description Go follow them and harass them in their dms. Don't really don't do that. Uh, but uh, I don't know what next indian movie We should make them watch down below. Thank you so much