What an experience!
As a movie, as a pure emotional experience, this is easily a 9. Great ideas, wonderful craziness, amazing characters and songs.
As a story, it's the best religious conservative nationalistic propaganda I've ever seen. Incredibly entertaining, smart, but also the fuel that leads to wars, genocides and hatred.
It might not always be evident, but being a lover of both history and cinema, this was what I was thinking while watching the movie: how much of an improvement this is compared to Soviet or Nazi propaganda.
I strongly recommend watching this movie. To be entertained. But also to practice media analysis. It's a great subject.
Don't be fooled though. This is the kind of ideology that has one single authoritarian and normative vision for all, and as the last song says, « no one will dare attack us » (I'm paraphrasing). Or in other words: anyone who is not with us is against us. And we will use force to get our vision.
We have discovered this the hard way, through two world wars, and I imagine India will have to rediscover this eternal reality: nothing is worse than modern war. And I do mean nothing.
As a movie, as a pure emotional experience, this is easily a 9. Great ideas, wonderful craziness, amazing characters and songs.
As a story, it's the best religious conservative nationalistic propaganda I've ever seen. Incredibly entertaining, smart, but also the fuel that leads to wars, genocides and hatred.
It might not always be evident, but being a lover of both history and cinema, this was what I was thinking while watching the movie: how much of an improvement this is compared to Soviet or Nazi propaganda.
I strongly recommend watching this movie. To be entertained. But also to practice media analysis. It's a great subject.
Don't be fooled though. This is the kind of ideology that has one single authoritarian and normative vision for all, and as the last song says, « no one will dare attack us » (I'm paraphrasing). Or in other words: anyone who is not with us is against us. And we will use force to get our vision.
We have discovered this the hard way, through two world wars, and I imagine India will have to rediscover this eternal reality: nothing is worse than modern war. And I do mean nothing.