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Death Note: Desu nôto (2006)
Everything is ON point
Death Note is the first anime I watched and it left me a huge impact in my life. The story, the music, the camera shots, the animation, everything is just extraordinary. Must watch, worth every second of it.
Mandaar (2021)
Worth watching
Power, ambition, malignance, duplicity, perfidy, supernatural and parental love are some of the key themes which Anirban Bhattacharya has bared in his debut web series "Mandaar". Based on William Shakespeare's one of the most iconic tragedies "Macbeth", it does not fail to live up to neither the adaptation, nor the hype it received.
The cinematography's excellence is clearly visible from the first episode of the series. The gritty coloring of each episode when showing the characters gives off their vibe to add to the flow. Politics have been so well and discernably shown that it easily highlights itself as a theme. The famous economist, Marshall aptly said that human wants are unlimited. This constant creation of wants i.e. Greed fueled by ambition, serves as one of the main factors, i.e. Power in the story. If you have power, you have money. They are complimentary, not substitutes. The foundation of Macbeth wasn't anomalous. The portraying of each character was exemplary in complimenting to the cinematography and the story kudos to the performances of Sohini Sarkar and Debashish Mondal. The story was perfectly matched with the Bengali countryside atmosphere of a fishing hub and solid reasons for their wants.
However, elements like the life of the environment, prominently the fishing hub, were not lively. Macbeth was written as play, a drama, which made sense when the importance of the characters was given more, but this is a web series. The balance felt off because we did not need to rely on imagination anymore. Explicit scenes were overused to show the gritty nature but it could have been altered with a different ilk. The character Macduff was replaced with a theme instead, i.e. Parental love. It was for this love that even W and the witch cared for their son no matter how evil they were. The music was alright except for that occasional percussionish type sound which worked well for the setting.