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2021 was not quite as good as 2020 with respect to movies. Though i have seen quite a lot of films this year too. Most of them were rewatches of the films i had seen earlier. 2021 movie log List of all the films i have seen this year : here Rewatched films : here Letterboxd has been quite useful for keeping track of films. Its perhaps also the app i used the most this year.  Some Stats :  Total films : 130 New Films : 97 Rewatches : 33 Year wise : pre 1950s - 5, 1950s to 75 - 10, 1975 to 2000 - 17, 2000 to 2010 - 20, 2010 to 2021 - 45 Top 10 favourite films seen this year: Honourable mentions : Casablanca-1942, On The Waterfront - 1954, Stalker - 1979, Persona - 1966, American Beauty - 1999, Moonlight - 2016, North By Northwest - 1959, The Tree Of Life - 2011, Wuthering Heights - 2011, Babadook - 2014, Piku - 2015, Highway - 2014, The English Patient - 1996, Repulsion - 1965, Platoon - 1986, Soul - 2020, Lilya 4-ever - 2002, Drive - 2011, Funny Games - 2007, Tess -...

Highway - 2014 Directed By : Imtiaz Ali One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest can be easily dismissed as being a fundamentally flawed film, and experts of psychiatry must have gone angry watching Chief escape from the asylum which otherwise was considered such genuinely cathartic moment of the film by film lovers including myself. While there are people who don't have any special insight about psychiatry or they don't necessarily want think about what happens to Chief after he escapes. For them it is merely a freedom from the oppressive system of Fletcher. It is symbolic for them. But the problem with it is that, Chief's life after the escape might not be as good as we think. He will get lost in the outer world due to his impairment and illness. And the whole idea of patients going wild and rejecting authority might upset and even make many disgusted by the film. For them, its a perfect example of how an inaccurate and inappropriate a film can be. But on the other hand, what ...