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The White Tiger | Movie Review

The White Tiger - 2021 Directed By : Ramin Bahrani The White Tiger have many kind of problems, but they are not very stark. They are not significant, but still quite obstruct this film to be a lot better than what it is. This is awkward, lukewarm and confusing film throughout, but enjoying nonetheless. As an adaptation of Arvind Adiga's Booker Prize winning book, this film is somewhat accurate and faithful to its source material. The book was also quite lukewarm and confusing. And if I am allowed to be little more critical, it was gimmicky. And the film somewhat makes that gimmick much more obvious and visible here. There are instances where you have to join the universal opinion and question your own judgment because of it. When you read a book or watch a film, people are so crazed about that piece of work, but you don't see the greatness of the work which the people around you are referring to. And more often than not, you question your own judgement in that case ...

Wuthering Heights | Movie Review

Wuthering Heights - 2011 Directed By : Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is a refreshing look at a period piece. Unlike the romanticism we usually get from period films, her's is a bare, raw, wild and unrefined. Perhaps even accurate than what we generally get. It is careless to please anyone, content with itself and with its own flaws, but perhaps the very flaws are its advantages too. Perhaps they are not flaws at all, maybe Arnold have a vision which the viewer or reader for that matter dont have. And she know something about the story we dont.  Period films are generally about wide green beautiful fields, delicate costumes, stern diction, a particular way of speaking, and many formalities and extravaganzas. Wuthering Heights totally drops these conventions and shows something bold and raw it its form. It is animalistic, natural, savage, yet so beautiful in its raw form. It is definitely audacious. It may not please everyone, and having released a d...