 Hey, we're back in this part three of our watch along of non-thon case kodoo The 22 my leon film if you haven't seen part one or part two. What are you doing here? You can head or you can go check those out. They're already on YouTube get out I'd like to see the full-on cut version though because you can only use about five to ten minutes of each part I don't have an uncut version in each part You can head over patreon uploading description below in the pinned comment and at the end of this We will obviously talk about the film and show our cut versions Let's get back into this I Was just gonna say the publicity is gonna be great Nothing helps your political campaign like an indictment That's only in America. He gets to sit but the guy who's has no ass I Minions close to contract The documents were written in the papers. That's why I've reduced the number of places. I didn't take any of that work. Honestly, I didn't want to work with people like them for a day or two. With the help of the party members, the officials, the shingles, and the private sector, the government's money should be paid. That's why I'm bringing the cutlass to you. Sir, this is for you. I'll take care of it. Do you have any proof of this? Yes, sir. There's proof of this. I'll get this done one by one. The road on the other side of the road was turned into a million-seater. And it was the origin of the car that was delivered by the minister. At that time, the nose of the reporter who was delivered by the minister who was the minister of the school district road was cut off. The minister must have been interested in this. When the road on the other side was finished, the complainants who received the money to kill Rajiv and the complainants who refused to give the road were given a repair and a cutlass. Sir, is this a case trial or a parot? It's a case of a judge like Sam, who came to Kordi for murder. Rajeev and Gangaram are going to the police station. So, Gangaram's 315 petitions and a case of torture have come to Kordi. This is a pre-flying case, sir. This is the case of a lawyer, right? Yes, sir. No one is going to kill him, sir. He could have been killed by the police. Sam and Kordi are well aware of this. I'll tell you if you accept it. This is Kordi, right? Yes, sir. Mr. Rajeevan, who just has a primary school education, is appearing henceforth as a attorney for the trial. The bad story of this case is... Nice transition. This is Rajeevan. Wow! What did you say? Since the death and the beating are of their own, this case has been filed in the head of the judge. If Gobi is the reason for this, then you are the judge of the case. The reason you are taking me as a ghost is because you have a father who will change the fate of the family, right? You are not related to this case, right? Spreading COVID around everywhere. New judge, Basil Joseph. I was wondering where he was going to show up. I am appearing for acquit number one. In this case, the prosecution examined five witnesses, including complainant. This is not possible. It is impossible. Document number two. Since the death and the beating are of their own, this case has been filed in the head of the judge. These two cases are not related to this case, right? Sir, the case is not filed in the head of the judge. These two cases are not related to this case, right? These two cases are not related to this case, right? They are not related to this case, right? They have... They have my humble submission. Accused number one, Mr. Preyaman may be acquitted from all charges. That is all you are on. At the age of 14, there was a war. He opened a hotel. He asked me, what is the matter? If the police had asked me the reason behind the murder, I would have gone to school. No one would have asked me that. I am not interested in asking the reason behind the murder. A few days ago, in Tamil Nadu, I took a bus to Kandeyan. I was 19 years old. The check on the car next to my house was on that day. I was 24 years old. I was given an RTO report within a week. The lawyer arrested me. I closed the case. I told everyone to leave. But I was not allowed to go to Manupur. I was told that the reason behind the murder was to be the culprit. I asked them to leave That is all. The person who left the container and the load on the container was also there. My truck was there in the morning. There was no other driver. There were no windows and doors. There was time to shut doors. There was no one on the train joining them. All the people in the village were not allowed to go out. They would have to go through the gate. The cyclists in the village were not allowed to go out. They were in a hotel. They were in a police car. When the police and the people in the village were caught, 5 people were seen in the sky. They were all injured. They were unable to come to the cyclists. 3 people died. They were hit by a head. In any case, there is a student who says that he has a handkerchief and a horse on top of his horse. That is the case. What is the reason, sir? The reason for not being able to win. The reason for not being able to win. The reason for not being able to win. For Judgment, August 11th. This is exactly when this was. The price of petrol. The main reason for the problem is to make us feel guilty. It is not possible to make us feel guilty. In the direction of the new service, K.P. Preyman, who has called us, has made us feel guilty. In the last six months, K.P. Preyman, who has called us, has made us feel guilty. In the last six months, K.P. Preyman, who has called us, has made us feel guilty. The slow drip of justice. Look at how long the case took. I love the use of their relationship in the child to show you how long this thing took. Yeah. When did this release? This was last year. Same with Jai Jai Jai Hay, the Battle of Brawls, and the Associates. I'm assuming we didn't get it in theaters here. We hardly ever do, but damn. Yeah, the satire genre is not done as much anymore, especially satire like this. There might be comedy set in terms of like right over Barbie is kind of a satire a little bit, a little stuff like that, but then like subtle drama satire, it's not done anymore as much. Hollywood really doesn't do comedies very much anymore at all, especially like they used to. There used to be a couple comedies every single year, including some satire. Yeah, there's a Brazilian filmmaker who I think it's Brazil. His film is called El Conde that's out right now. That is dramatic satire taking... Anyway, yeah, it's not common. It's not common. Basically the point I was trying to make. But that was so good on many levels. And so I say it every time, Malialum just does what they want to do and says, here, if you like it, great. It's just like they're the A24 of the great of the Indian film industry. Amen. They're just like, I hope you like it. Yep. Because I just made it. I thought it'd be a cool idea. And we're going to make what we're going to make based on its artistic quality. Yeah. And we have a vision for what we want to do that's based on artistic merit. And that's what we're doing. And it also obviously makes a lot of statements, obviously. Oh my goodness. Which most satires are supposed to. That's the thing is where the early comparison to say Napoleon Dynamite in the comedic element of it. This was about as subversive as any film can be. This thing is magnificent in its symbolism, its imaging, its use of sound, its use of space and its messaging. It is about as subversive as a film can be. Absolute sheer brilliance. Just absolutely incredible. Obviously all the messaging was really great. I was actually anticipating it not working out in the end. And like them just going with what normally happens. Like the people in power just get away because of whatever. I thought that was actually how I thought that was where it was headed. I did too. I believe Rathish who wrote and directed this is probably a big believer in truth and justice ultimately winning. And the belief in the hope that ultimately no matter how corrupt systems and people can be, truth will prevail. Justice will prevail even though it gets bogged down within the slow drip of corruption, greed, lying, bureaucracy. Just dumb, dumb human contrivances. Which is one of my favorite things was a couple of times the pigeons are just watching the idiocy of the human beings. And how the white one was flying through the courtroom every once in a while. Yeah. And the comparison of certain things. You know, them running out of the petrol but him also having a mango and the differentiation between the things that we've created to sustain us that are naturally all around the idiocy of that. And the constant through line of the interconnectedness of things that just don't make sense. But they do when you realize gas prices don't go up by accident. And the reason they do has nothing to do with anything other than greed and bureaucracy and the broken system. Yeah. It's just, there's so much, so much you could talk about at every level which is what happens when you see something that is extraordinarily good artistically. And I'm sure there was a thousand things that we didn't pick up on just because we're not in the culture as well. I bet there's a thousand things we, if we watched it again we probably would see and then add to it the other things that we don't get because we're not Indian. We're not Malayalam. And we've seen him in many things. He was in Take Off, he was in, you were late to the theater, the 2018 film about the floods. Yeah, I remember. But we've seen him a few times a lead guy because I was wondering because he seemed so familiar to me. Was this in consideration at all for India's submission to the Oscars last year? I don't know, it could be this year as well. I don't know if it was after October, it technically still be. Yeah, depending upon the release date, even if it was possible, this should have been or should be in consideration. Yeah, I'm not sure. But the director, say his name for me again please. Rathish Balakrishnan Bodhava. And he's the writer as well, so hats off to you. Incredible. The way he decided to film this so quirky and the long shots of just unique looking people just staring off and just letting everything, I mean Malayalam has, for a long time, we've been watching it, been great at just patience. Right. And just be like, you're going to find this funny or this is, I want to stay on the shot for a long time. They have incredible patience and what's the word, conviction about what they've decided to put on film. This was as, well this was even way more. I mean I'm thinking of a film, I'm thinking of court. Yeah. But this is basically taking court. Social satire. Wrapping it in Napoleon Dynamite and then putting a bow on it of a lot more subversiveness. That was pretty, court was pretty straightforward in its messaging. This one is, this had theatrical release, didn't it? Yeah, it definitely did. I'm laughing because I would suspect this is such an extremely well-crafted satire and so intelligent that at face value, if you're not paying attention, you could just easily easily let some things go by. And I think that's probably what happened. I think a lot of stuff just snuck by the censor board. Well also in the Malayalam industry they're a lot more used to this style of, But it still has to get by the censor board. That's true. But yeah, and I think it was, I don't know how it did in terms of box office. Hopefully it did well, obviously. I would hope it did. Malayalam industry is obviously very unique. They don't do like the big box office numbers usually, but their people usually always support their cinema. Yeah. Which is wonderful to see. I hope it did well. Yeah. This is the kind of film that deserves to do well. I've heard a lot about it just because, And it's also, since obviously we saw Jai Jai Jai, The Associates One, Battle of Brawls, and this. And also if I redid my list for last year's favorite films, there'd be like now six Malayalam. Yeah, no kidding. I famously said in that video, normally Malayalam is always my favorite. They didn't come out with one this year and it's just we didn't see it. We didn't see them. Because it might have been the top five. I mean, our arc came out last year and so did Gala, which in the Hindi film industry was amazing. Yeah. But man, there would have been easily the Fa Fa films that made it into the list last year as well. So that would be, if you include these four that we saw this year, the Fa Fa one that we saw last year, that would be at minimum five out of ten because I guarantee all those films would have been in last year's top ten for me. Every single one of them. And I can't tell you which one is my favorite because I love them all for so many different reasons and they're all such brilliant pieces of cinema. Like The Associates One was so incredible. Similar, not really satire, but the comedy and it was so good. Yeah. In Battle of Brawls for a different reason. Jai Jai, hey. Kind of, I mean once again, drama with comedy in serious situations. Yeah. This one, just being such a unique film, like satire is just not done anymore very much. Like it's just not. It's not. And the reason it's not done is because it's really difficult to pull off, really difficult to pull off. And you have to know the intelligence of your audience is going to understand it. The Malayalam industry is obviously very good. I think the Tamil industry probably could have done it as well. It will surprise me if both Anyarag and LJP love this film. Yeah, it would shock me in the slightest. This is film festival stuff. This is put it in a time capsule. This is art holding the mirror up to society and blisteringly lambasting it. Yeah, I love how they kept new things just being introduced and like, no year to blame, no year to blame, no year to blame. But also I loved like obviously the lead performances of he did a great job. Kon, I say his name. It's a hard one for me. Konchakoboban. And then I believe this is. Yeah. Girl, right? Yes. Gayathri, if I've mispronounced your name. Did amazing jobs. I'm very sorry. I want to honor you. You did an amazing job. The whole cast did. But I love all of this. You guys love the charge. This guy right here. Yeah. Was Rajesh? Yeah. And the other guy that I loved. Oh, he's in the Nomanari. Okay, gotcha. The other guy that we loved who was the quirky dress guy and laughed in the courtroom. Everybody did just a superlative job. Superlative. A lot of great comedy. One of the things, the best things about it was the editing style and the, just the shots they decided to go with. Like something would happen. And then the next shot would be a guy just staring at camera. And that's just funny. And then obviously the composer is Don Vincent. One of the best scores you're going to hear. This would have absolutely been included for me. If not been the choice for best score of the year. The score was, the score was, show you how good the score was. The score is so good. Like the film, you could go back and just pay attention to the score. And you would have missed things the very first or even second time that you saw it. The obvious, most famous and wonderful thing is the incorporating of the judge going dot, dot and including that. That was just so freaking good. And there were other places where sound became part of what was going on. The sound design and the score. This is a perfect example of every element of your movie telling the story. The story itself is fantastic. But every element and every discipline in this thing was telling cinematography. Everything was part of the storytelling process. Yeah, it was. And yeah, there's not really, it was... Five stars, man. Engaging the entire time. Top of the game. It was only, I think, two hours 18. But it didn't drag for me. Not at all. I was interested from the beginning. There's so many elements for reasons for that. For writing, the directing, the editing choices. I would love to talk to them because I really do think like many things in this thing that were so subtle, they were so blatantly subtle. Them sitting at the table at the PM's place with all of that stuff on the table and nobody touched any of it and conveying government waste. So many things like that throughout. The constancy of us seeing the images of Gandhi. And the nation that now is... What would Gandhi think of the nation now? And so many other things that are messaging about in that regard. You could probably watch this film five times and pick up new chunks of brilliance. This thing is a pure cut diamond that every little turn and facet of it, you'll pick up some new thing that's brilliant about the filmmaking. Absolutely incredible. Would you have a favorite of the ones we've watched this year? The Associates, the... This is it. Over Associates, over Battle of Bra's, over Jai Jai Jai Hei. Love them all. Love them all. Over Jai Jai Jai Hei. Yeah, I love them all. My favorite thing about this is how difficult it is. Let me give an example. In gymnastics, you could watch four equally magnificent floor routines. A couple of them may have been more enjoyable for you in terms of the emotion that the gymnast exuded and you're just celebrating it. And then there's the one gymnast who pulls off a couple of moves that are technically far more difficult to pull off than a couple of other gymnasts. And they may not have the flash and the pizzazz and the emotion, but they have a technicality to them that is extraordinarily difficult to successfully pull off. And everybody got 10s. Judges are going to lean toward the one that had some of the technical brilliance that the others didn't. And the subversiveness in the satire is so hard to successfully pull off. And that for me pushes this one as my favorite. Yeah, I really enjoyed it as well. I couldn't tell you which one's my favorite because all of those so far of... And they're just from last year. Every single one of them is from last year. Yeah, there's so many things in this that surprised me. It's a 10 out of 10 film. Hats off to everybody involved. Yeah, and thank you for waiting, obviously. I know people have been wanting us to get to this one for a long time. After Jai Jai, hey, this one and a couple others. Yeah, this would be one of those ones where if it had been part of the conversation, it really is, you know, you talk about the things that the Academy for the Oscars looks at when they want to accept a nation's film. And a lot of the times what they do want to see is an artist who's brave and talking about the things that they think need to be changed that are humanitarian or philanthropic and things of that nature, right? Or politic. And they're almost always done within the canopy of the dramatic. But not a lot of our satire. That's my point. What would they be able to understand it? That's why I would pound the pavement for this film if it had been in consideration for something like that and say, not only is this thing doing those kinds of messages, but the difficulty of being able to successfully pull that off in a genre that is satire is so, so rare. The most obvious and the easiest and it's not a slam because it's the most effective and it's, especially because you're telling a lot of real stories is the dramatic. It makes sense to equally pull off messaging that's getting those points across in satire is, and in a way that is really subversive without it just being hilarity. Wes Anderson does it all the time. But he in a very different way. Magnificent. Granted, if this was eligible for last year, still no other film should have been sent other than RRR because of the puppet hat. If you wanted to make an argument for a different reason, but in terms of if you just wanted to shoe in as we still say, and I still would say you should have submitted RRR and it would have been a guaranteed nomination for Indian cinema. But yeah, if that wasn't there, there was a couple from last year that I probably could have made the argument for including this one. Well, the one they submitted last year had the misfortune of being under the shadow of Triple R. And it's not its fault because of, again, that too. I would have said, you know, these two films side by side, I would have said good grief, man. This is the beautiful problem of Indian cinema when you dive deep below any of the commercial things and you find the brilliance of what's taking place with the artists who are focusing on artistry. It's magnificent. Hands off to the Malayalam industry, and everybody involved as this is always. You know, we are big fans of the Malayalam industry. But I hope you enjoyed the watch along. We obviously very much enjoyed it. If you'd like to, if you watch this on YouTube, obviously you saw a very cut up version. If you'd like to see the full uncut version, you can head over to Patreon. I'll put it in the description below in the pinned comment. And let us know what the next Malayalam film should be for review or watch along. Not every film is watch along worthy, but it doesn't mean they're not great. It's just some are just more enjoyable for the audience to watch people react to. This is a great one. Yeah, it is. This is a great one for a watch along. Very different watch along style, but yeah, it is. I agree. So let us know what the next Malayalam film should be for a watch along. And on to the next watch along.