Monday, September 01, 2008

wanted . titicut follies

when the mill workers of the world are merely a front for the most dangerous hit men in the world why cant they kill the developers who turn their karmbhoomi into malls and multiplexes. perhaps because their leader has sold himself out to the corporate biggies and now values big bucks more than integrity. angelina jolie plays neera with great enthusiasm. we walked out making pouting faces and looking sexily at one another while trying to make bullets curve. a parable for our city. wonderfully awful.


planets away and so much better was ‘titicut follies’ in which we spend time with the inmates of a psychiatric prison. the realism in black and white is intentionally uncomfortable but for me bordered on the voyeuristic as characters mumble incoherently, are paraded around naked in front of the camera. i guess this was inescapable when trying to represent the horrific treatment of the inmates by the insane bureaucracies and systems of these institutions.

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