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Not Your Usual RomCom
Karina and Sanjay plan to go about backwards in their relationship - take the big, serious and defining steps first, and then think about actually getting into a relationship.
Their greed to own a house overpowers them, and for a while that's all that they can see, especially Sanjay. They have always dreamed about owning a home, and when they bump into each other, they do something you and probably won't.
This cute movie looks very romantic and cheesy from afar, but it's certainly not one of those ringe-worthy movies. Instead, it has light-hearted humour, unique characters and portrays different types of relationships - husband and wife with equal roles, single mother and daughter, in-laws, father son, restricted relationships, and so many more. You even start to dislike a lot of the characters, but you can't hold anything against them for long.
I might have liked the movie this much because after the trailer I wasn't expecting it to be good, neither did it make too much of noise. But I guess by now we can blindly trust movies with Vicky Kaushal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Supriya Pathak and even Angira Dhar.
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Cute and Not Too Common
Alex Strangelove, a straight A student and class president in a happy relationship finds himself in a situation he never expected himself to - coming to terms with his own sexuality. Movies like these are usually when a person knows who they are but is not ready to out themselves yet. This movie, though, is about Alex not knowing who he is and not being ready to come to terms with it. So yeah, from afar it might look like the usual scandalous high school story, but it is far from typical.
The characters of both Alex and Claire are both very cute and charming, and they seem to form the perfect couple. That's until the fact that they haven't slept together, moreover that it is a touchy topic for Alex. And you think that's what the movie is all going to be about and start getting bored when he meets openly gay Elliot at a party and he's forced to start facing facts.
This, however, is not a coming out movie, as I would again say. This is a movie about trying to get comfortable in your own skin and those around you helping you to do that.
However, a big negative point of this movie are the weird characters apart from Alex, Claire and Elliot. Delgado, Alex's best friend, is the most weird character, and also the rest of his friends. They even smuggle in an illegal frog to lick it and get high, and that part was completely over the top.
What the movie basically tries to do is not make the viewer feel alone, and I think that's a pretty sweet message been put through in an okayish manner.
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OH MY GOD
Okay, so this movie has so many layers, it's going to be hard for me to deliver a review as good as the movie. Every body will take away something different from this brilliant movie, what the movie means to them. However, here, I will give you what I took away from the movie while watching it, which is pretty mortal, and what Darren Aronofsky actually tried to portray, which sets in after a little bit of thinking and reading.
The only location you see is the huge house, whose rooms you can't stop counting, and the grass and trees all around it, making you realize it is a remote house. None of the actors have names, but that did't get in the way of the movie once. Most of the screen time is mother, beautifully portrayed played by Jennifer Lawrence, so you start feeling like you are mother. you start feeling for her and with her. And soon enough, it felt like the entire world is pitched against you and mother, even though the first half of the movie does not have many characters. Even mother's husband, Him, starts looking suspicious for a crime that hasn't happened, but just for letting in a stranger man and his wife into their home, and allowing them to stay for as long as needed. Mother's husband sure grows fond of them, but you and mother both keep feeling uneasy about it, and rightly so, as that's where it all starts.
While watching the movie, one thought didn't leave my mind: either I'm insane, or everybody else is. Mother's husband is a creator, a poet, and his need for people to read his work unimaginably exceeds his need to write for himself, in such an unhealthy way He craves for followers, for worshipers, and gives them whatever they want, forgetting that mother is the one who built this house and gave him everything she could, eventually even a baby. It talks about desire to another extent, and He does not love mother as much as he loves how much she loves him.
However, this does not explain the beginning and the end of the movie, and this is where the references come in. The entire movie refers God, with Him being the Lord, and mother being Mother Nature. Let that sink in.... and then I would suggest you to head over to YouTube to learn more about the Biblical references, because it is a lot to think about. It leaves you with a very heavy message in a very subtle manner: you there, watching the movie, are the antagonist, and not any character you watch on screen. You are invading into this world what Mother Nature lovingly built for you, and keep using her for it, forgetting who really owns it.
Before you start getting bored of me trying to convince you to watch this movie, proceed over to watch this movie, and think about what you took away.
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