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bschooladmit20
16 Sep 2020, 00:01
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Issue: #1What are you watching this pandemic? With every digital platform buying, releasing and promoting enough films and series to keep you glued to the screen for three-quarters of a lifetime, give or take, what is it that you choose to watch when you want to wind down — after a gruelling workday of sitting in bed and staring at your computer screen? Are action adventures your go-to before hitting the sack? Maybe a heart-warming drama? Or a romantic comedy that brings a smile to your face? Thrillers make time fly by and the classics are timeless. Documentaries are fascinating, sure- but are they as good as the fantastic worlds sci-fi has to offer? Also, there’s… phew, it’s tiring going through SO MUCH content and deciding what to watch. It just seems easier to watch what you’ve already seen and know, right? Sometimes, an algorithm just won’t cut it. Luckily, watching these shows is our job. Let us make life easier for you, by doing all the heavy lifting of consuming content, so that you can focus on the truly great stories!We’ll share a few high-quality film and series recommendations with you every month. And no, we aren’t going to try to explain some special camera used or the subtext in the mise-en-scene. We’ll leave that piece of intellectualisation to the critics. We’ll keep it simple and tell you about the little things that we think might make you fall in love with these films and series, in the first place. Dark  One-sentence summary: A family saga with a science fiction twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two children exposes the relationship among four families. Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery On top of the list is a series you might’ve seen on the top of a bunch of other lists, but it can be talked about time and time again [pun fully intended]. Despite having been commissioned only for three seasons, the show has managed to tell its story across seven time periods. It weaves them together in a complex, intricate manner breaking rules of easily computable logic, which we expect from each film/show and are regularly disappointed by for their lack of originality or innovation. In a show where the mother is the daughter and the daughter is the mother [don’t get me started], you will be hard-pressed to be disappointed by the writers. If you fall a bit short of their expectations, though, don’t beat yourself up. The layers of subjects and themes that this show explores through its high concept narrative is incredibly diverse. From time travel to religion to coming of age to the travails of families and large communities, the show unapologetically steams forward, introducing new characters and revealing new information without a break. The bar this team of writers sets for you is almost as high as your parents’. You’ve got to do the work and keep up with them as they twist and turn through this spellbinding story. Where you can watch it: Netflix Ramy  One-sentence summary: A millennial Muslim-American struggles with his identity, caught between a nihilistic lifestyle and a spiritual awakening. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Have you ever laughed so hard that your stomach hurt? Or felt upset enough to feel an imaginary hand twisting your innards? Now, imagine both those feelings kicking in at the same time and refusing to go away for thirty minutes straight. That’s what watching an episode of Ramy feels like. Ramy deals with the impossible contradictions present in a millennial Muslim-American’s life, as his modern lifestyle constantly interferes with his newly discovered spiritual quest. Or is it the other way around? I guess it depends on who is looking. The series casually upends, with a wink and plenty of heart, the stereotypical idiosyncrasies within a migrant family in New Jersey [or any traditional family in a metropolitan area], smoothly showcasing Ramy’s awkwardly hilarious attempts to lead a spiritually enlightened life amidst the drugs, booze and sex surrounding him. Ramy is a spiritual jester who is caught between his Friday prayers and Friday night plans — “I’m like at both. I wanna pray, I wanna go to the party, and I’m breaking some rules, I’m following others,” as our main man puts it in his inimitable manner. The show is also brilliant in the space and voice it devotes to its female and middle-aged characters, giving young adults perspectives they are too often blind to. Ramy is a comedy, and it’s a good one, but it stands out in it’s ability to have jokes emerge from our own realities, from the conflict between traditional expectations and modern aspirations that we all experience. Even if the show makes you laugh out loud, it leaves you in a swirling eddy of introspection about what the priorities in your life should be, as you build your identity around a quarter-life crisis. Despite the comedy, the most unsettling part about the show is that the darkness imbued in it comes from nothing but situations and conversations similar to those we find ourselves in, on a daily basis. Where you can watch it: Hulu/Amazon Prime (India) Crashing  One-sentence summary: A zany chronicle of the lives of six 20 somethings, who live together, as property guardians of a large, disused hospital. Genre: Comedy, Coming of Age To understand this show, you need to have made one too many mistakes after drunken nights and learnt next to nothing about drinking too much. Or been hopelessly confused about your fluctuating love life. Or unapologetically promiscuous and equally charming. Or just — twenty-something years old and incredibly lost in big dreams with no concrete plans. A hidden gem by Pheobe Waller Bridge, who also happens to star as the lead in the show, this one is a six episode hiiii-larious take on six twenty somethings, who stay as property guardians in an abandoned hospital in the UK. The show explores their diverse lives as they are crammed together in close living quarters. The six characters are super weird, in a very real way, and the dynamics between them are even weirder, in an equally real way. What sets this show apart is the masterful character work that in just six episodes makes you roar with laughter, cringe with awkwardness and sob relentlessly along with the characters, whose comedic timing is definitely something to write home about… or anyone else you may write to in place of communicating via GIFs. Full of relatable, humorous situations this one really gets down and dirty [puking, ****, farting, orgasming — the list is endless] with its characters and isn’t afraid to show the raw experiences of being a twenty-something, struggling to make it in life. At the get-go, it seems to be romantic tension between Pheobe’s character and her engaged best friend but evolves into a story about friendship and the complicated nature of human relationships- both platonic and romantic. Where you can watch it: Netflix Super Deluxe  One sentence summary: On a specific day, four different people have wildly unpredictable reminders from their past throw their present in disarray. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Suspense A newly married woman, after having some soul-satisfying sex with her ex-boyfriend, finds him dead in bed next to her. The father of a young boy returns years after being in Mumbai — only now he is a woman [she is woman, to be precise]. Five teenagers watch a porno together and find to their consternation that one amongst them is the son of the dirty picture’s leading lady. A man who was miraculously saved during the 2004 tsunami disaster passionately spreads the word of — a dilapidated statue that has no distinguishing features. This may sound like Charlie Kaufman and Woody Allen decided to have a love child. In reality, however, this is how Thiyagaraja Kumararaja kickstarts the four stories that make up Super Deluxe. Don’t mistake this for an anthology, though. These four stories are interwoven in multiple sequences of cause and effect, cutting through and building on each other to bring out one great truth — there is no meaning to the lives we live on this tiny blue planet, so stop being such hypocritical jerks to each other. Okay. Maybe that’s oversimplifying it a wee bit. If one had to say what this movie tries talking about, it’d be — life, morality, sex, gender, societal hypocrisy, marriage, politics, caste and a never-ending list of other subjects. Using irreverent humour [which later takes on dark leanings] this film tackles the hypocrisy practised over generations; the hypocrisy that is leaking into the current generation. The characters in this film embody the psychological quandaries we are all faced with: a conflict between the morals we are conditioned to believe in by society and our ‘elders’ and the morals we instinctively believe in through the practise of kindness and empathy. While the film is eclectic, it doesn’t stop entertaining for a second. With some spectacular performances from South Indian cinema’s finest, the 2 hour, 56 minute long films keeps you involved and guessing [between the ridiculous number of uncomfortable laughs offered] as to where the hell the story is going next and what could possibly happen to resolve it. For anyone who is a fan of dark comedy and social drama, this film is bound to be one hell of a treat. If you don’t watch it, though, it’s fine. Seeing that there’s no meaning to life on this tiny blue planet, what’s the point of doing anything anyway? Where you can watch it: Netflix We’ll be back with more recommendations soon. Let us know what you think when you’ve binged your way through these. Until then! |
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