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The Second Marriage (2021)
Standard 4 students can act better
No words can describe the really really bad level of acting on this short whatever you want to call it.
The audio seems like it was added back later after shooting. The worst production that there can be. The story seems like written by a very low IQ person. I believe that even a standard I student can come up with a better story for 2nd marriage; if their parents were to get divorced.
It's just the worst thing I've seen in Hotstar till date. Hotstart if you are seeing this review please take this short out of your portfolio. It does everything to ruin the reputation of shorts that you have on your platform!
Batwoman (2019)
The cringiest opener I have ever seen!
This is the worst opener I have ever seen in my life. The opening 3 minutes have just been copied from Batman Begins about how he lives in exile and masters the art of fighting. The most stupid thing is how her master can artificially create ICE cover so FAST! Those who have watched it will know what I'm talking about. In about 10 min into the game, we have something to cheer about for the LGBT community! That's fine with me but the portrayal is simply distasteful! Next up is how someone without proper ID and access can get inside a privatized security firm's building in 2019! I mean okay we saw all those in the past but now? I mean seriously? And at the end we after Batwoman saved the day, we have sister and relationship issues. That's really what this episode was all about. Flash and Arrow gave birth to another cringe series for the mass to bear. Sometimes I wonder what gives these writers and directors!
Sidney Hall (2017)
Multi Timeline Storytelling, Mysteries held on well, only to be dished out at the appropriate time.
Even The Shawshank Redemption was heavily criticized but later it turned to be the best film ever. People often think of boring as bad and that is a common misconception within the critic community. Having said that, I don't intend to compare with TSR, however this movie definitely reminds me of Into the Wild, which was really an excellent movie. And I think this movie is really one in that league.
Here, we have the primary character (Sidney), who is a brilliant writer and happens to have kissed a girl in his first grade. Eventually the girl's family relocated the very next day they kissed and Sidney happened to move on. In the years to come Sidney will develop his passion for writing and his creativity in writing would find its place in his school magazine on a daily basis. So one fine day he receives a letter from a girl named Melody stating how she felt about his pieces of creativity and that she adored them. Sidney wasn't such a popular figure to have received such a letter from a girl and that too a name he hadn't heard of before. So he would go about the whole school chanting 'Melody' but in vain. Meanwhile there's a brute in school who would bully other kids in school named Brett. And one day out of the blues, he comes to Sidney for help in digging up a box which they had buried when they were much too young. Sidney agreed to it for a deal that Brett would give up bullying a kid in their school. Brett agreed and voila! They both got onto the mission and had successfully acquired the box. However while returning Brett's father would catch hold of him as the duo were late in carrying out their search mission. Brett would hand over the box to Sidney to keep it safe and the latter would oblige. Meanwhile, Melody turned out be some new girl whose family moved in recently in the stay opposite. So after some initial hiccups they turned out to be together and Melody shows Sidney a picture of a dream home somewhere South. Melody's obsession of finding the exact house now became a fodder for both and they agreed on a date (which happens to be 25th May) on which they could be there together just for that 1 night (irrespective of the fact whether they are together or not), just that one night would be theirs and theirs 1 only!
However just the next Monday, news of Brett committing suicide would reach Sidney and he would be quite devastated by that. One wouldn't quite understand as how someone who bullied others, could affect someone so much. As he always cherished to become a writer, Melody would advise him to write a Novel on Brett. Sidney agrees and writes a few chapters which he sends to his school teacher (Duane) who publishes his small time articles from time to time in the school magazine. Duane was mesmerized by the honesty in the story and would forward the same to some publishing houses. One got back to him and voila. The story then directly transcends to being a writer who already has sold millions of books. Now Sidney appears to have problems in his personal life. Melody (now his wife) isn't so happy with the relationship as her husband seems to have no time for her. So she moves away to some other place. Coincidentally at the same time, an author named Francis beats Sidney to the Pulitzer prize. Also there were reports about students committing suicide after reading his novel. At around the same time he would develop mentally unstable behaviors mainly out of some past injuries. Meanwhile Sidney gets entailed into a physical relationship with the publisher's daughter (which is mainly for lustful reasons which would become obvious later). So now Sidney goes back to his wife and asks if he would get a second chance. There he gets the news that Melody is expecting a child. Sidney doesn't tell Melody about his affair. However, he tells Melody that he has found their dream house and that he bought it for her.
The movie is somewhat like Dunkirk as it happens to showcase three different timelines at the same time. You will get to know what I am talking about once you see it. So now back to where I was. All of this what I said till now had already happened. At present our character Sidney lives the life of a vagabond roaming around with a dog and with other's identity. All his ids are fake and he goes around libraries and book stalls burning his books as he thinks those were the reasons behind students committing suicide. Meanwhile a detective goes around searching for him. One fine day, while Sidney was resting on the road with his dog, a policeman caught him and sent him to jail separating him from his dog. However, he gets bailed out soon and coincidentally its that detective who came to his rescue. Later he would reveal that he wasn't a detective and that he was Francis, the author who would beat Sidney to win the Pulitzer. Francis was amazed and bewildered as to why Sidney was living such a reclusive life, to which Sidney would tell him how his books inspired students to commit suicide. To this, Francis would bring over the topic of how his book helped his own son to get back to normal life again and for that how much he was thankful to Sidney. He also proposed to write a biography on Sidney to which the later rejected, as he didn't want to reveal anything about himself.
And then from deathbed at a hospital he would request Francis to come to him and give him his secrets. There he would reveal why his childhood friend Brett, committed suicide, what happened to his wife and how an injury in the past would damage his mental condition.
I will not solve the mystery for you here. For that you would have to watch the movie. And I do promise that the mysteries about what was there in the box or Brett committing suicide or his wife isn't lackluster at all as it doesn't take anything out of the flavor of the movie. With that I end my review here!
I don't care what critics have to say. If they could do it with The Shawshank Redemption they might as well do it with any other movie!