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El conde (2023)
Count Chocula's Chilean Spice
Color me Intrigued with this Black & White shot Epic with a Cretenious plot. The Screenplay drafts an Allegory between Vampirism with Power & Politics, and how its a souless void ready to feed off anyone under its grasp.
Augusto (whom from here on will be called Count Chocula or CC) is a Man past his prime, past his wits & way past his will to live - As a Discliplined Soldier, A commanding Leader & the sole Patriach of his home for the last 250 years. CC has lost his apetite for juicy necks & beastly urge to Hunt to the point he is refusing to consume Blood. Obsessively letting go of a life that has been tiring, boring & disappointed lately - a thought not shared by his family, who still wait in line to be turned vampires themselves, yet demands & relishes to be called El Conde / The Count, by them.
With some Chilean History, English Narration in a language film, Nuns with an Exorcism over mind & Margaret Thatcher -- this Avant Garde Western is able to mix The Spicy Family Drama & Slice of (un) Life with Dark Chocolaty Humour.
The Sombre with the hints of Malignant Classical music, and the masterfully shot scene of a Vampire's flight near the end of the movie cements the movie as a nomination for this year's Oscar.
Ankhon Dekhi (2013)
See it to Believe it!
There's a fine line between Understanding through Belief without question & Understanding through Experience.
And Sanjay Mishra's Character Bauji, like his namesake, is a Respected father who wrongly believes the word of a Neighbor that his daughter is in love with some Boisterous Vagrant.
Bauji then decides to mettle it out that he will now question everything & refuse to belief anything but his own senses. Including the Sanctity of Temple's offering as a mere tasty sweet, the weather in some international tourist spot for a flight he has never been but has to lie for his work, or the mere existence of Today as Sunday.
Ankhor Dekhi both Satirize the Intellectual Ability of a Man & Parodies a Simple man out to learn the truth for himself as an Illiterate Madman whose questions ard seldom answered, but made a Caricature of to the point his Work, Family Relations & his own self starts to eat him up from inside.
A jetpack joyride becomes a Gloomy & insufferably suffar (journey) in the span of few minutes. The movie is of everyday man who is made fun of for being eccentric &, for asking too many questions.