tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post11337547972727628..comments2024-03-27T14:57:37.031+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Yuppies and cavemen: NH10 as a thriller about contrastsJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-46803728847524750672015-05-02T18:34:49.469+05:302015-05-02T18:34:49.469+05:30just saw the film yesterday. The slickness and the...just saw the film yesterday. The slickness and the craftedness of the film notwithstanding, there were few ambiguities that one was left with. At one level I saw the film as delineating the clashes between two elite groups - the rural and the urban and not as much between the haves and have nots, an impression that one otherwise may get. Do the urbane upper class denizens couped in their glass, tinted and seemingly exclusive spaces (notice how frequently the divisions between them and the rest is mediated through a mere fragile glass screens - car, office, residence) have greater nihilistic rights in their inability to comprehend the brutality and savagery of rural India? It appears that bourgeois sensibilties alone,even as it is opportunistic and hypocritical, can claim greater moral rights, in which other groups inhabiting a different moral world, however repugnant, are best eliminated. No engagement is possible, either politically or socially as India hurries towards disingenuous modernity. RSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07467999167404446582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-32572815899224651722015-03-23T23:08:26.754+05:302015-03-23T23:08:26.754+05:30I think you are giving too much credence to the mo...I think you are giving too much credence to the movie for the side subject of "honor killings". I think the movie would have remained same if it was caste rivalry or any kind of rural lawlessness. I think the movie was good n setting up authentic environment but there were too many coincidences and convenient devices employed by the director.rkshttp://rks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-63890953830982415522015-03-22T10:02:30.313+05:302015-03-22T10:02:30.313+05:30Lovely post! I felt the same way about the divides...Lovely post! I felt the same way about the divides... In a way the divides are superficial and the misogyny is a continuum from one end of the spectrum where male ego gets hurt in a boardroom and at home to a woman being killed for choosing her own partner... It was an unsettling film... Btw it's "Jo karna tha so karna tha." I hope more films could be made on this topic... It is indeed a long way to respect for human rights. And indeed civilisation is a myth.. But I wish someone makes a film on fighting for good institutional response to honour killings.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br />AnjaliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-42259063398742915552015-03-19T11:56:43.185+05:302015-03-19T11:56:43.185+05:30@Jai - Respectfully disagree with you rating of th...@Jai - Respectfully disagree with you rating of the movie. As a long time fan of the slasher genre ( and to some extent the road movies sub genre within it), I found the movie lacking and was disappointed with the quality of this one after the quality he dished out in the first one. I did not find the editing tight, the acting and/or casting was bad, too much melodrama for the genre, the whole social issue thing was blown out of proportion and was not subtle as in the hollywood lower budget slashers and found the movie confused between wanting to be a slasher and social issue movie.<br /><br />However, I will agree that this is big step for slasher movies in Bollywood with higher budget than usual.Sidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1744258989326595852015-03-17T17:19:07.532+05:302015-03-17T17:19:07.532+05:30What this movie did was to show that the response ...What this movie did was to show that the response of people of all backgrounds is the same when it comes to their "code" being violated. Meera, at the end, probably justifies her violence by telling herself that she killed "butchers" who murdered her husband and their own sister - both of which are against her "code" of living. Arjun, well, he probably justified his action by telling himself that they shouldn't harm the couple for an inter-caste marrriage - because in his code, evidently, such things are normal. Whatever be the stimulus, a sense of putting things right, or a sense of doing right pervaded the actions of the rural and the urban, neither of which, in the end analysis, was justifiable?? Jo karna tha...aandthirtyeightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00644980602293705853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-30510966584138193762015-03-16T14:41:49.960+05:302015-03-16T14:41:49.960+05:30Gradwolf: great comment, thanks. Just one thing th...Gradwolf: great comment, thanks. Just one thing though: I'm always a bit wary when I hear talk of "transcending the genre" - in my view, most of the effective genre films (and I'm not only speaking of something as good as Texas Chainsaw Massacre) already have many "social issues" as subtexts and get a lot of their frisson from that, even if it isn't addressed directly. (Haven't seen Eden Lake, so won't comment on that one specifically.)<br /><br />I just read a mention of <i>Last House on the Left</i> in a Navdeep interview. Makes me want to go back to Robin Wood's iconic essay on the American horror film.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-31883883430134234202015-03-16T14:33:50.834+05:302015-03-16T14:33:50.834+05:30I was quite glad this didn't stop at being jus...I was quite glad this didn't stop at being just another slasher film liberally borrowing from Eden Lake and delved into class and caste issues as much as one can in films of this genre. That's where it transcends both the genre and its inspiration (and allows usage of this word instead of the much abused "copy"). I loved the stretch from when Meera takes a lift in the cop's car, he quizzes her about her caste, name drops Ambedkar only for an already confused Meera to give bewildered looks (her privileged self has no understanding of this issue or at least doesn't get the gravity of the issue). The quarry scene was simply phenomenal. I couldn't help but read it as Meera climbing up the rocks, standing high up (her own ivory tower) and throwing rocks down at people below. And to Navdeep Singh's credit, he also dares to show that this is not black and white but more of a hierarchy and there are people further below Meera's attackers and that's where the Bihari construction worker comes in to Meera's rescue and whose house the Mama won't step into. This stretch soon after the interval made the film for me. Gradwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031246793161524667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-12181109754125636542015-03-16T10:18:45.006+05:302015-03-16T10:18:45.006+05:30Oh yes, it does have violent and gory scenes - and...Oh yes, it does have violent and gory scenes - and those are more disturbing than the ones in Badlapur (which is a more stylised film, not "realistic" in the way that NH10 is).Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-22532155071991669802015-03-16T10:13:11.215+05:302015-03-16T10:13:11.215+05:30I want to watch this film but unable to sum up cou...I want to watch this film but unable to sum up courage after a gory Badlapur (which I loved, though). I am uncomfortable with scenes with body parts being sliced and nails being pulled out and throats being slit. It might seem a very silly question but does NH 10 have such scenes?Pessimist Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06057153008708242962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-79198350357249419032015-03-15T21:14:01.093+05:302015-03-15T21:14:01.093+05:30great piece and I can't wait to see this one!great piece and I can't wait to see this one!mike ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682166152336094196noreply@blogger.com