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They pulled every trick from Bambi to Love Story out for this.

posted 13 years ago by rareandfirsts
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And I knew it while I watched it...

But I'm a sucker for smarm. I loved it.

Autistic orphan in a strange land, dead kids, a poor community drowning with an over the top mother figure about to die... The movie was a giant cliche.

BUT.

It was put together in such a way and the actor's performances were of a way that it let me ignore the things that I would normally leave after the first act. Like others I felt the third act got a little too preachy and over the top but I still enjoyed the hell out of it. I hope to see more from this Director.

The Dude abides.

[–] Ryu_Darkwood 13 years ago

Same here.

I can name many reasons why this movie profoundly stinks, but the overall package still moves me.

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[–] Chrysanthepop 13 years ago

'his only movie that I'd really recommend is Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. '

Seriously? That is one of the biggest fluffy melodrama with one cliche after another.

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[–] careyrajan 12 years ago

kabhi khushi kabhi gham is kjo's worst

this is Kjo's best actually and still its not a perfect movie,

but this is a very good movie overall, of ocurse it has its flaws.

[–] iamella 13 years ago

Maybe this is giving KJo (dir.) more credit than he deserves but I felt that the "pulling every trick" aspect was an homage to the film Forrest Gump that is, a long series of anecdotes, each stretching credulity, just to make points about human behavior and human reaction. Both Forrest & Rizvan were rapidly moving the anecdotes along in that this slice of autistics (more accurately "neuroatypicals") have singleminded goals, without having to account to the trappings of life that slows the rest of us down.

Was either movie preachy? Nah. Just puttin' up a mirror to society, one of the themes to probably half the films out there. And if you have any n-atypicals in your life, like I do, they are darn good at puttin' up a mirror to conventions! It's fun, actually!

I think MNIK will stand the test of time. I predict excised scenes will be played in high school history classes.

Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friends ~The Beatles