in john waters madcap and over the top and intentionally gruesome 'pinak flamngoes' divine is a murderting runaway with a family with strange sexual fetishes- chickens and eggs. the villains are the only 'normal' heterosexual couple in a single family home in the basement of which they impregnate women and sell them to lesbain couples. if that is not whacky enough wait for the party sequence in which anal gymnastics are performed or the end when divine eats dog shit. in glorious bad taste. disgustingly brilliant.
two ramayana films. 'sampurna ramayan' and 'sita sings the blues'. its easy to overlook the homemade specail effects and set design when the film is from decades ago. the story is told, thankfully, without any necessity for a contemporary retelling. 'sita sings the blues' tries too hard to be cool. reeking of american desi scorn regarding indian popular culture- it tries to 'update' sita by making her sing american blues music. the visuals are often stunning but in the final reckoning shallow. channel v does it better. the voiceover party conversations that keep the story moving are actually pretty annoying.
the social network is a wordy nerd story. people talk in quick one liners and the story moves backwards and forwards, in and out of a courtroom. our hero is actually the guy who stood by the nerd through thick and thin and got effectively booted out towards the end. meanwhile the nerds motivation for revenge is the rejection of a girl who still wants to be friends with on facebook; and whom he wants to poke and like.
over the top operatic story within a story. balletic camerawork and hyper stylised images as natalie portman plays the schizophrenic swan queen. she is fantastic. the film- fun.
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