Jallikattu .

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#Jallikattu

😳😱😲🤭😵‍💫

Holy H*ll…literally!

I mean, oh man, like, I, well, the thing is…

The most insanest, craziest, gonzoest, brazenest, off-the-wallest, boldest, audaciousest…okay now my thesaurus app is beginning to heat up…simply *most*est movie of the year, any year🤗!

And…it's from India🇮🇳!

And…wait for it…it was submitted for the Best Foreign Film #Oscar!

😳

G*d bless whatever producer bankrolled this film and whatever entity decided to submit this to the #Oscars👏! I'd have given anything to have seen the looks on the faces of the voters more used to the kind of genteel, well-mannered, well-meaning desi films that usually make the fest/critics' rounds in the West😏

Look I don't want to resort to the kinds of easy stereotypes we used to in School, but the craftspersonship is absolutely *top*-notch, but then I wouldn't expect anything else from a South Indian film 😇

First of all, the directing! Man, this kid is something else entirely. I heard that he was the resident enfant terrible of #Malayali film. If this is any indication of his oeuvre, well then, terrible away! Give him *all* the awards just for corralling that #NightOfTheKings-esque cast of 100s?, 1000s? (unless he was using the kind of digital crowd technology that even Weta would give their left arm for!)

Incredible cinematography, seriously (that drone pedestrian bridge shot🤩) *full* of the kinds of single-take tracking shots that would make even Inarritu and Chivo sit up and take notice!

Editing - that opening👍!

Sound design - 5.1 turned up to 11👊!

Production design - Bengali('nuff said😘)!

Satire? Farce? Magical realism? Realistic fabulism? Allegorical battering ram? Action comedy? Tragicomedy? Seriocomedy? Humantragiseriocomedy? *All* of the above?!

Yes!

One of the most unforgettable cinematic experiences you'll ever have!

So…the buffalo is a metaphor for…🤔

"Nonsense! No one here can lay claim to legacy and tradition"🤨

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