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Someone Great (2019)
Besty, Breakup and Belongingness: A Cinematic Journey from Innocence to Experiece
Besty, Breakup and Belongingness- the three important "B"s of young age gets a fresh interpretation in Netflix Rom-Com "Someone Great" (2019). Enigmatic youth, journey from innocence to experience, a grand introspection- Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's debut feature film presents a beautiful amalgamation of all these comprehensive youth issues.
"Someone Great" starts with a great 50 seconds uninterrupted long shot-plunging us right into the plot without delay- confident enough to start the film when it literally starts! Independent females, liberal sexual preferences - these subplots works simultaneously. You cannot miss the sensational music it accompanies- synced with the moods that brings out the feelings accordingly. Music, costume, setting and lighting- exactly what the audience requires to feel the moments of anxiety, happiness, love and loss.
We all have that youthful determination in our lives when work, adventure and love mean everything. "Someone Great" is an explorer that leads us back to our nostalgic days. It feels like a romantic odyssey that has an accentuated individualism built in it. If you are looking for something energetic, introspective and fun, go for "Someone Great". 74% fresh on rotten tomatoes and a decent 61 meta-score, this R rated Rom-Com could be the perfect flick for your weekend Netflix and chill!
Triple Frontier (2019)
Triple Frontier: of Soldier, Duty and Morality
How does the Army functions- we all know that but how does the army operatives live with us is a less asked question, let alone enquired properly. Apart from all the mythical extravagances of a soldier, both retired and on service, Netflix original Triple Frontier (2019) features a dispute over skill versus soldier, service versus morality, loyalty versus life. Starring Ex-Batman(!) Ben Affleck and Ex-Machina (2014) star Oscar Isaac, this unconventional action thriller doesn't offer any solid resolution to those serious issues but Director J.C Chander ensures a solemn yet suffocating meditation on the philosophy of expectations and reality. Guns and guilt, bullets and badge, fights and friends- J.C. Chander equips these with few retro Metallica, Pantera and Bob Dylan masterpieces - pumped enough? Let's dig into all of this together because Triple Frontier entails an epic quest, a grand odyssey and a tragic homecoming with all these yin and yang built along with it.
The title did a fascinating amalgamation of geography and psychology. Triple Frontier is a junction where borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. Visually the film is there but metaphorically, it says something substantial to human behavior. When everything goes south in the narrative, all the characters are mentally challenged to prove their worth. Their skills, loyalty and moral strength are examined like Bangladeshi elections are observed by the international communities. At some point, it exceeds their reach and remains open to the audiences to interpret their survival strategies. When it comes to survival, you automatically murmur: Survival for the fittest. But do the fittest always survive? Does survival mean physically alive or is that just existing? It is satisfying enough to see this film accompanies a sublime contemplation over this classic dilemma. Any ardent audience will detect a polemical assertion in the film's evident criticism on military services and experiences, its disruptions and discontinuity, trauma and post traumatic treatment. Nevertheless, romanticizing the duty as pure and proud, the operatives are fed with a vague, hollow and fake promise of belongingness. Often times, there are moments of internal conflict between individual judgement and authority that displays an uncomfortably numb state. One of the character epitomizes the rising tension between worth and reward by saying: "If we had accomplished half the things that we have accomplished in other profession, we'd set for life". Apart from this heavy stuff, the film incorporates few brilliant visuals: That epic shot seeing Ben Affleck through fire will be remembered with cinematic tribute for a long time- clearly illustrates greed and pride simultaneously. They had a camp fire out of dollar bundles on top of the mountains: can this be an ultimate irony of piling up huge money just to see the world gets a little more disturbing, problematic as it ever was?
This Netflix original is unusual in action genre where action seems to be the secondary motive and reaction and reflection being the primary. Anybody remembers the epic quest cinema "Red River" (1948) by Howard Hawks? Well, Triple Frontier could be its proper descendant: A grand journey into the wild, an unforgettable quest and a heroic homecoming - no R rated 150 minutes feels any better.