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A Wednesday (2008)
English sentences mixed in with Hindi
I quite enjoyed "A Wednesday" despite some reservations about the police violence.
It was very interesting for me to see the English phrases and sentences mixed in with mostly Hindi dialog. Some of the English was fairly complicated (for example: "This will be the most important day of your life.") I know that India has an immense number of English speakers and users, but were most of the English parts understandable to most Hindi speakers? It sounds a bit silly to ask, but were any of them subtitled in the domestic version?
Since I have to have ten lines, I'll mention how hugely impressed I was with the actor who played The Common Man, whose name I can't see because I'm on this comment page. I saw that he played Captain Nemo in a movie, which he must have done with wonderful seriousness and intelligence.
Nervous Ticks (1992)
Re: A pale reflection of Scorsese's "After Hours"
I disagree about the film not working.
It's true that York appears confused and at times aimless, but that's believable reaction to the chaos around him.
He's a staid and boring but polite and precise person who appears to have stepped out of that character to run away with another man's wife. His attraction to her? She's sexy, lustful, and rich.
He changes during the film after being forced to do things out of his normal character like shove a woman out of the elevator and run from criminals who are shooting at him.
After all the stress and after losing the KISS FM contest, of course he takes the ill-gotten money of a man who threatened him and endangered his life.
I do agree that I didn't see any motivation for him to briefly decide to go ahead with the insulin murder scheme but again, he's stressed to the breaking point.
York is a different character from the people in "After Hours". He's able to center himself each time after a crazy event and fairly calmly move to the next disaster.
I think the pacing was deliberate, such as the elevator scene, which drags somewhat but had me squirming while thinking "he's only got five minutes!" BTW - Notice that the only bag he's ever lost is the one with the bomb in it that would have destroyed the plane and instead killed his thug co-worker.