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A father landed in an unfamiliar country, surrounded by unfamiliar faces & culture, to give her daughter & himself a second chance! by Bodhisattya Pal Stillwater promised to be a thriller with tenseful hunt for clues, violent revenges & emotional flashbacks. Matt Damon was perfect to be a large, strong & violent father looking for the real culprit for whom his little girl is suffering in a foreign jail. But nothing like that happened; the movie followed a different approach! Stillwater is actually a real gentle movie where Damon is a 'yes ma'am' type calm American father with an eagle tatoo on his arm & an unusual job to do for which he is not 'trustworthy'! And this thing srprised me! Stillwater doesn't consist of any chase sequence, any thrilling fight, any masterful court room scenes; its different; it actually consists of a process to survive in a foreign land, to love someone from all the heart, to make ownself a better human from a ...

"Can anyone from this coast kill him?" Bodhisattya Pal 16/07/2021 Malik is an epic political gangster drama written & directed by 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧 and consists of some of the finest actors from Malayalam film industry; It's hard to describe Malik but it is certainly ambitious, elegant & technically brilliant. With his third directorial, Narayanan's evolution & maturity is evident. I always adore his works; from the patriotic 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟 [𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕] & experimental 𝐂 𝐔 𝐒𝐨𝐨𝐧 [𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎], his command over filmmaking was quite clear. But this was a challenging project. To keep all these genius star cast composed in a broad spectrum work like this, a technically sound director is essential and Mahesh was apt. Another talking point is 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐮 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞's extra ordinary cinematography; it was precisely well balanced in some parts and breathtaking in other parts. It demands a separate post to describe the brilliance of the sta...

COLLISION OF GREED & DOMINANCE BENEATH THE SHADOWS OF FATIMA MAHAL REVIEW by BODHISATTYA PAL Movie Review Gulabo Sitabo by Shoojit Sircar 🐐Starting with the traditional puppet show of Uttar Pradesh, Shoojit Sircar's latest directorial is a good old fable in the disguise of a modern satire. 💡Gulabo Sitabo is a story of collision revolving around a century old haveli. The collision is between the stingy owner Mirza, his wife Fatima, the 'parasite' Baankey along with other tenants, the Archeological department & the law. But there is another collision flowing beneath the shadows of 'Fatima Mahal' - the collision of greed & dominance. 🐐Sircar is a character maker more than a film maker. His stories are usually mono dimensional, but the characters are unforgettable. But unlike his filmography, Gulabo Sitabo is little different. It has a solid, multi layered, thought provoking story inside. The characters are weird. Not a single character is act...

🔵2020: RUSSIA🇷🇺 - FILMS & LITERATURE 1⃣ STALKER(1979) - EXPLAINED - Analysis & Interpretation.    - Bodhisattya Pal.  STALKER(1979) - ANDREI TARKOVSKY An unusual setting, a mysterious stalker, a forbidden area - 'The Zone', a professor & a writer, a journey to find the truth, a wheel of events, a drenched conclusion - A legendary filmmaker with his most complex work - 'Stalker'. Tarkovsky, one of the greatest filmmakers of Russia, loved to stay neutral & give audience an open ending cinema. His works are complex, tangled yet poetic, lyrical, spiritual and metaphysical. Stalker - the so called sci-fi drama is a slow paced poetry full of metaphors which is both weird and stunning, art at its best. Both time & patience is needed to understand this deep work of art. But as they said that you have to first feel a film, before understanding. It's really just beyond understanding, it's an otherworldly experience, you have to live it....

SCARY, IRONICAL & DEEP - ONE OF THE FINEST HORROR FILMS! A MUST WATCH!                 FILM: THE HOLE IN THE GROUND DIRECTOR: LEE CRONIN WRITER: LEE CRONIN & STEPHEN SHIELDS  CINEMATOGRAPHY: TOM COMERFIELD MUSIC: STEPHEN McKeon RELEASE DATE: 1/3/2019 COUNTRY: Belgium,  Finland,  Ireland,  United Kingdom LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES GENRE: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW: A single mother, living in a countryside rural town, noticed radical change in her son after some mysterious & disturbing events. The premise is really promising. If you are bored after seeing a lot of logic less horror comedies, then this piece of art is for you. I can't call Cronin's debut as most original & completely unique but I have to call it one of best horror films ever made. Still it's unusual, not like the typical horror films available. It's dark, slow burning and artistic. The film has two laye...

STORY OF THE TRANSITION OF HUMAN MIND OUT OF GREED & A FINE MELANCHOLIC PIECE OF ART Movie: The Vanishing Release Date: 4th January,2019 Director: Kristoffer Nyholm Writer: Celyn Jones &  Joe Bone Cast: Gerard Butler,  Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells etc. Music: Benjamin Wallfisch REVIEW:              "Three men alive on Flannan Isle,               Who thought, on three men dead."                                      -Wilfrid Wilson Gibson                                                        Flannan Isle Based on century old true story of 'Flannan Isle Mystery', THE VANISHING is a psychological mystery thriller. A take o...

MAGIC REALISM AT ITS BEST, A HILARIOUS ,CRAZY, SARCASTIC, FUNNY JOURNEY! It's impossible to describe this movie! Crazy, hilarious, nonsense but beauty!  Without any long review [A lots are available on internet ] I will suggest you to watch this film first, at your own risk, because it is not everyone's cup of coffee, and scream loudly. It's a perfect example of 'Magic Realism' , debutante Boots Riley's direction & writing made it only of its kind. Pure original & artistic. It portraits the truth of telemarketing in a terrible, unreal way. The alternative world, Riley created is brilliant, the 'Worryfree' , 'White Voice' , 'Equisapiens' are something which will wonder you. A sarcastic, satire black comedy which shows the transformation of the employees of companies into otherworldly creatures in a ironical way. [Don't forget to check Cash's gf's shirts, arts & earrings!] The brilliant star...

Film Review(2) 'The Shape of Water' Release Date: 8/12/17 Director: Guilermo del Toro Reviewed by Bodhisattwa Pal. •Plot Summary: Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady ina hidden, high-security government laboratory in1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab's classified secret -- a mysterious, scaled creature from South Americathat lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist. •Goods: What to say! Everything about the film is better than good.In one word a magnificent masterpiece.A grand fairytale story - Love between a mute woman & a mystrious amphibian species!Goosebumps!As usual legendery direction from The Great Del Toro.Minute character Detailing,terrific beautiful mood creation.A top class acting from the whole cast.Every scene is ashtonishing & stunni...

MOVIE REVIEW(1) "INSIDIOUS : THE LAST KEY" Release Date: 5/1/2018 Reviewed by Bodhisattwa Pal. 🔶Plot Summary: Brilliant parapsychologist Elise Rainier receives a disturbing phone call from a man who claims that his house is haunted. Even more disturbing is the address -- 413 Apple Tree Lane in Five Keys, N.M. -- the home where Elise grew up as a child. Accompanied by her two investigative partners, Rainier travels to Five Keys to confront and destroy her greatest fear -- the demon that she accidentally set free years earlier. 🔶 Goods: For which Insidious series is known,the 4th installment has also 2-3 good scary scene.Its more an entertainer than a horror film.I enjoyed Tucker-Specs comic time more than the scary parts.The film didn't describe any Mythological datas of other world,that is a relief. 🔶 Bads: Well,if you expecting a spine-chilling horror,Insidious 4 is not so scary at all.The plot slowly falls at the usual horror story Line.I...