Starting off to what seems like a really normal movie that involves cheating, romance, and the jump of logic for love.
Except that this isn't it; and while everything looks like so as the movie progresses, it all breaks itself apart and refixes itself into something new as the movie comes to a close.
Really worth watching it for the twists and turns it slowly brings about.
In a world rife with wars and battles of heroes with the the sound of swords, knives, and bullets blazing through the heat of battlefield, we're introduced to a man whose fingers work best pressing keynotes of a musical instrument.
Enter our protagonist, a Polish Jew who lived and dredged a life through the hell that was Warsaw that creeked and crumbled during the war that ripped through Europe. His struggles, his battles, and his determination to live through what was inhumane is made to resonate through the works of another Jew, one who could understand this pain as being a victim himself.
And in the end, just as we began to see him play so do we see him at the end playing yet.
I've given this movie an 8, albeit it's due to lack of an option for 7.5
The movie is complex in the set of characters involved, with even a simple plot of overthrowing an empire that runs under the Republic of a budding nation that's sloggered by corruption could blind even an honest individual points instead to a climax that seems to have multiple threads converging over one single gold mine in one part of what was once the Kingdom of Mysuru. This, isn't really characteristic of what were South Indian movies that nevertheless show protag-traits in common with the hero in this film here.
The movie has a hero-complex, as with any South Indian movie this too projects a form of hyper masculinity intertwined with individual heroism that would make one question whether the other main characters even required stage time when it could pretty much be taken for granted that we have one MC with nearly thousands of NPC, and a story teller to narrate it all. Yet, the movie shows something fresh; for anyone who's followed B-grade, or even lower, Indian movies would know that traits shown by the main protagonist is often followed by romance/heroine-chasing which albeit exists acts sparsely for an "All according to my plan" plotline the hero delves into.
If Bahuballi was any pointer, the second movie might leave the viewer amused than impressed as was with the first one; but here's to hoping of something.
Drifting, speaking, thinking, wondering.
Being introduced to a movie that involves the tag/genre "thriller" would make one expect that there's truly something..... well thrilling about the movie. But there really isn't, and no I'm not looking for fast cars or cheap stunts that defy what one might have assume dot be logically or humanely possible, but even twists and turns in the story that one wouldn't have even assumed.
But, sadly, by the time I've reached midway the movie it seems I'm lost in where the plot's going to with me left grappling at anything that makes sense anymore.
Tl;Dr: Maybe this was better off made as a documentary of the protagonist than as a "thriller" of crime.
In the end, what really matters?
A movie about a man that's diagnosed with cancer with no way out except death, comes with it a string of events woven as tales/chapters that discuss and detail how the ill-protag deals with the many "empty holes" that are left inside of him when he begins to look back at the kind of a life he's made; and the final choice he takes that is of neither two choices he was given with at hand.
While not superb in itself, the movie is rather well made being short and proper to how much there is in the story.
Genuinely took me nearly an hour to think up of an apt enough comment on what I thought about this movie. Really did.
A story that has a rather unbelievably comical twist at the finale, with the movie trying to show itself as being a thrilling romance but delves into comedy so many times that I agree with the Golden Globe's choice of category.
Honestly, except for that really impressive plot-twist which was so comically pulled off, there's nothing much of inherent value here that makes the movie stand out from many other romantic "spy novel" movies that have been made in the past; you know, the kind where the woman is the spy and the man is this unbelievably layman individual who somehow gets "sucked into all of this but begins to like it".
I guess the rather short time spent on watching this movie is the only other positive thing there is.
You'd really need to have done your homework if you wish to even remotely understand what's happening here. Why do I say this? Because I haven't done homework on this.
TPB-AFK is a documentary that delves into the events that happen in the lives of three individual people who share the technical responsibilities of running a website, infamous as The Pirate Bay, from the moment they are made to appear in court. But, what the documentary instead shows is a rather dull transition from what seems to be a political fight dwindling into a fight of three people for their lives as the very people who supported them end up not showing up any further.
The movie, IMHO, shows now three people fighting for what they think is right but rather three autists (yes I used the word) who seem to have a lack in ability to grasping what they're truly in, going so far as to run away from the country after being prosecuted (and I'm not typing this from the angle of "Eat the broth you've cooked"), failing to evade spending their time in jail spectacularly as well.
TL;DR? In short, the movie really is kinda painful to watch, and by painful I mean it hurts to drag yourself through what's 82 minutes of a long handcam video.
To start off the movie with a random girl in a random bed with a random dude from some random party, it grows on to set the mood, and the starting scene, of what can be a series of events in an extra-ordinary day of the protagonist.
Happy Death Day comes off as a movie that looks into what a person might do when they are made to face a single day of their life over and over again, the protagonist at first growing more and more enraged with all that's going on but later begins to reflect on herself with each passing horror, even growing confident of herself to the truest of forms.
The first half starts off with a setting, showing us the struggles of a woman locked in a loop, while the second half is where all those twists begin with the last one being the sweetest twist in the list.
In short, a movie that's worth the time spent watching it.
Disappointment in the fact that the movie says sci-fi when the events say action flick is enough spoiler for anyone to know where this is going..
To enter this movie with an idea that you're going to have your entire worldview of what immortality could mean is going to be left.....untouched without a thought.
Self/less offers itself to be viewed as a question of what can happen when a person is given a chance to live a new life again, only to discover that said life was in fact taken from someone else. To this comes the question of what could run inside the head of the individual who nows has to face the bold question of "Should I confront the reality or sink in to the bliss that I've paid for?".
The movie though already has an answer, and what should've been an introspection on the question of what immortality is worth ends up being a question of whether the viewer could find worth in having spent about 2 hours on a rather simple action flick, just that the premise sounds so intriguiging.
My answer as that said viewer?
Check it out if you don't have anything else to do, I found the time spent fun albeit not of the stimulating kind.
