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Qala (2022)
A snowflake in a hurricane
It explores an unexpected theme bounded by metaphors and symbolisms pointing to the vulnerability of women to make a career in showbiz. Envy, guilt, trauma are some of the key motifs. Dichotomy of fame is portrayed with flashes and blinding lights. With earnest acting performances and art direction. The anatomy of Qala is enthralling. We often stage sadness rather than madness as the cornerstone of female heartache. Qala rectifies that with the freedom to lose control. With an unsettling aftertaste it left me with a story that felt familiar with a syntax of arthouse and unconventional horrors.
Gone Girl (2014)
Gone Girl
Amy Dunne a cold, calculated psychopath. It would'nt be an understatement if we say she is one of the most disturbing villains in the history of films. Growing up, Amy was aloof and unsociable from living in Amazing Amy's shadow, but Nick's charming personality and wit shows her what happiness really looks like. Slowly their marriage collapsed in over five years tension, disappointment, anger and even physical abuse arose. Amy now feels that Nick has taken her time, money, heart, and altered forever the course of her life, only to begin an affair with his student.
His punishment should fit the crime of murder?
The only person more dangerous than a psychopath is an intelligent one, Amy with her genius was ready to harm herself in order to drive her vengeance. With perfect planning and execution her twitched head was obsessed to destroy her husband. Its amazing how the brains of a psychopath functions, its nearly irrevocable. Amy, wanted complete control over Nick and she didn't leave any stone unturned.
Rosamund Pike's portrayal was probably the sexiest form of crazy and as gracefully she slit the throat of her ex boyfriend and wore his blood like fashion was beyond insanity. She wanted attention, she wanted control and more than that she wanted revenge. The intensity of her vindictiveness doesn't just impact Nick's life, though Amy's even willing to kill herself to ensure that justice, as she understands it, is served.
The fact that audience could answer the question, "who is most sympathetic in the film?" in several different ways is in and of itself the masterstroke of the movie. It leaves you bamboozled as to how in the world can you feel yourself in the dilemma of picking sides, and I think that was the most beautiful aspect of it all. The psychopath did manage to play the antagonistic narrative so intellectually that blew our minds and set us all on a mystery ride.
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunrise ~ A Magical Ride
There is no hidden agenda in this movie. There will be no betrayals, melodrama, phony or violence. It's mostly conversation, as they wander the city of Vienna from mid-afternoon until the following dawn. Nobody troubles them.
What do they talk about? Nothing spectacular. Parents, death, former boyfriends and girlfriends, music, and the problem with reincarnation when there are more people alive now than in all previous times put together. Linklater's dialogue is beautifully amusing, as when Jesse suggests they should think of their time together as a sort of "time travel," and envisions a future in which she is with her boring husband and wonders, "what would some of those guys be like that I knew when I was young," and wishes she could travel back in time to see - and so here she is, back in time, seeing.
The city of Vienna is presented as a series of meetings and not as a travelogue. They meet amateur actors, fortunetellers, street poets, friendly bartenders. They spend some time in a church at midnight. They drink wine in a park. They find a way to exchange personal information by holding imaginary phone calls with imaginary best friends. They talk about making love. There are good arguments for, and against.
An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibilities, Before Sunrise is filled with mystery and hope, and maybe love.