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Escapisms of March

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Greatest of the escapisms and beyond

This March I have watched a lot of great movies. Of course, those movies I watched were after the disaster – Nenjam Marapathillai.

It was the second Friday of March.

I had just finished reading the கருவாச்சி காவியம் and I didn’t like it as I thought I would. I thought of holding a bit before starting to read a new book right away. So, on that Friday, I planned to watch a movie.

I had a Malayalam movie called Munnariyippu in the watchlist of my Letterbox account. 

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I haven’t downloaded that movie, but I didn’t want to watch any other movie at that time. I had read a lot of good reviews about that movie and it started growing inside me. So, I was searching for any OTT platform that would offer me to watch this movie and I found this movie in Jio Cinemas App. The only use of my Jio Sim (which is my secondary Sim; my primary Sim is Airtel) is that I can use Jio Apps. In my area, I don’t get network coverage (or signal) for Jio Sims.

Anyway, I watched this movie with the help of my Jio Sim and it’s a one-and-a-half-hour thriller movie. And till the last 5 minutes, this movie doesn’t feel like a thriller movie. And the end just creeped me out. One of the best endings I have watched in a while.

I spent my second weekend of March by watching the movies that I had downloaded already. But I was glad I had chosen the great ones out of the movies I had downloaded.

And it feels just bizarre that I had picked a feel-good film, then a hard-hitting film and at last a horror flick with a romantic twist to it. 

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Sudani from Nigeria is a Malayalam feel-good film I picked that Saturday afternoon and at the end, tears where running down my eyes. It’s one of those movies where you would feel satisfied after watching it. I mean truly satisfied. 

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The Colour Purple is a kind of film that gives such vibes which I wanted கருவாச்சி காவியம் to give me. It’s a woman empowerment flick and a proper one. I am not a great judge of these kind of films but if it hits you, then it’s a great film.

 

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And the last one is a film that I didn’t expect to become one of my favourite films of all time. The film’s name is Let the Right One in – a Russian movie. It’s a vampire story and it is just that. It didn’t show any fantasy, didn’t show any triangle fuck story, didn’t show any young adult troupes that would cringe you out. It’s a simple love story that ends in a tragedy. Bliss!

My movie streak didn’t end just like that. The Next day, I went on watching 5 films in a row. 

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I re-watched Lijo Joseph Pellichery’s JALLIKATTU after 3 years, I guess. This time around, I loved the movie more than the last time I had watched it. I usually hate re-watches, but I really liked this re-watch. 

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Then I watched Richard Linkletter’s BOYHOOD. And this too become one of my favourite films of all time. I don’t want to brag but, as I said before, I hate re-watches. And if a movie makes me to watch it again, then it qualifies to be in my favourite films list. And BOYHOOD is one such movie.

The mood which Richard Linkletter produces in his movies is so unique that it makes me easily to immerse in his world. I would simply watch his movie any number of times and would just chill myself.

 

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After letting out a Catharsis watching Boyhood, I wanted to watch some comedies. It’s been a while since I watched comedy flicks. And I picked three comedies suggested to me by my friend Uzumaki – Palm Springs, Weekend at Bernie’s I and Weekend at Bernie’s II.

These movies where not just comedies but with a weird element added to it. Palm Springs involves time travelling (or time looping to precise) and it’s my first time watching a comedy flick that deals with confusing time loop theories. Weekend at Bernie’s is a comedy which involves 2 guys and a dead body.

YOU gave me the Dexter Vibes

The last two weeks of March went so fast. After reading the two Tamil books about sex, I watched few movies on the third weekend of march. Compared to watching 8 movies on the 2nd weekend of March, I have only watched 3 movies on the next weekend. 

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On Saturday, I have watched Ee.Ma.Yau which is another Lijo Joseph Pelicherry’s movie. It is by far the best movie of Lijo I have ever watched. Loved it. The next day I have watched Unda and Another Round. (I am the Martin in the climax raa fuckers)

ALL THESE THREE MOVIES ARE FUCKING MASTERPIECES!!!!!!!

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Finally, it’s the last week of March.

A year back, after I read the 50 Shades trilogy, I came across this tv show called YOU. At the time, I heard a lot of reviews as the second season of YOU got released on Netflix. It’s a young adult book series and when I heard that the main Protagonist is a stalker and kind of Dexter like character, I got hooked.

Then I came to know that the TV show had been adapted from a two-book series written by Caroline Kepnes. Suddenly I put those two books in the TBR. Also, I had other books in my TBR that I had wanted to read. So, I didn’t get a chance to read YOU at that time.

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And its been 1 year since I TBR’d it. Its time to pick it up those two books.

And those two books were just meh for me. I liked the second book (Hidden Bodies) a lot better than the first book. It’s a Meh book but the TV Show was amazing.

The weird thing is I liked the first season of the TV show and the second season is just Meh! But when it came to book, I liked the second book than the first book. Its because how the ending of the first book got changed in the TV Show. It was amazing. The second book and the second season were totally different stories with the same characters. And I didn’t like that change. I liked the second season of YOU because it had Victoria Pedretti. I love her so much! Ah!

At the time of writing this post, the third book of the adventures of Joe has been released. I knew this even before started reading the book. I planned to read the third book too but after reading the first book, I didn’t want to read the second one either. Then I read the second book and I liked it so much which made me to think about buying the next book. But the third book costed nearly 1000 as it has recently released one and not yet distributed in India.

For now, I have just TBR’d the third book and if I have the mood and only after it has been distributed in India would I think about reading it.

And the March month of 2021 got ended.

Oh Wait!

I forgot to write about my Trekking to Vellingiri hills.

Yes! It’ll be my next post!

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Location: Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India

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  1. RenukaJuly 13, 2021 at 1:51 AM

    Waiting for your next post dwarkii!!!!

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    1. Baka SamaJuly 17, 2021 at 10:02 PM

      I don't think you would like my next post. Ungappan shivan ah konjam senju viturken adutha post la!!!

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