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All We Imagine as Light 2024
All We Imagine as Light seems keen on addressing several issues: migration, labor, displacement, patriarchal control, inter-religious relationships. It does so rather dully. Many of my earlier observations about Kapadia not really being able to formally apprehend the political issues she brings up other than through stilted dialogue and labored juxtaposition of scenes remained after watching All We Imagine As Light. But the themes have changed, and I enjoyed the latest: I will watch far worse movies about Malayali women…
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Gentleman 1993
It would take Shankar some more time in his career to nail down his more formal flourishes due to issues of scale and resources, but this rewatch reminded me that there was always remarkable ideological consistency right from the beginning as far as his pet themes are concerned. Brahmin glorification, Brahmin merit and victimhood, Brahmin/upper caste coded vigilante who unleashes righteous violence against the non-Brahmin/Dravidian coded corrupt politician, certain spectacular addresses to the State and the larger public using court,…
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Kuttavum Shikshayum 2022
A lot of people who saw it in the theaters were complaining about the pace. I did not find that to be an issue. The film's problems are more grave: it is ultimately hollow and so obsessed with the minutiae of investigation that it cannot distance itself from the cops' perspective. It is ultimately a film that cannot take a step backwards, forwards or sideways from a subjectivity that is deeply rooted in the ideology of police as an institution…
