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Iravin Nizhal (2022) ‘shadow of the night’
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Not your typical Tamil film. It’s a one-er. The whole film is a one-er. Note that it’s shorter than most Indian films and there are plenty of stitch shots, but it is impressive on a technical level. What’s more, it’s nonlinear, which adds an extra dimension to the one-er.

The protagonist is a boss and sets out at the beginning armed with a pistol to kill someone. As he goes, he records his life story to his phone making him the narrator. He walks from scene to seen, with other actors portraying his younger selves, and it switches from day to night and in different locations as he serves as his modern narrating self serves as the thread to connect it all. Wiki says there were 50 sets built across 150 acres and what a labyrinth that must have been. The orchestration of it all is mind boggling.

It’s a brutal tale. The narrator begins life suckling his mom’s bosom after his dad murdered her for cheating. As a baby he gets taken in by some neighbors who abuse him when he reaches boyhood once their own child is born, so he runs away only to be raped by a cop, after which he is taken in by a tranny ganga dealer. And that’s just the start.

It’s a depressing downward spiral, not fun or colorful, but it does manage a surprisingly complicated dance number and some dazzling scenes of a corrupt ashram. The cinematography is what kept me engaged - a constant game of pondering how they got the sequence of shots that they got.

Not D00M recommended unless you’re into one-ers - if you are, then this is a must see.
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#2
What DM said.

Another variation of oner, giving itself ample opportunity for stitching, what with regular pans across fabrics and walls and such, but still an impressive feat.  A bit slow, and I nodded off a few times near the end, which I suppose is my main criticism of oners--that perhaps out of necessity they tend to slog along a bit.  I think I'm now ready for a new kind of oner, one more action-oriented.  Or starring a rapid-fire talker like Jim Carey or Robin Williams.  I think I'm asking for the impossible.
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#3
Dang, bro.

You didn’t take this AND Bardo in… a single shot?

I bow down to your one-er fortitude.
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(12-21-2022, 01:41 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Dang, bro.

You didn’t take this AND Bardo in… a single shot?

I bow down to your one-er fortitude.
I'd like to take credit for that, but they were on successive nights.
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(12-21-2022, 12:59 PM)cranefly Wrote: giving itself ample opportunity for stitching, what with regular pans across night time, but still an impressive feat.  

Honestly, I find one-er films exhausting. I don't blink as much - I feel I have to pay more attention because a part of my mind is engaged in figuring out how it might have been done.
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Ep07 and Ep08 Well, we finally found out who killed the Missing Indian Girl. We did find out who killed the guy hung in the forest but then we went headlong into cliffhanger town. Two big cliffhangers and I don't know if those were the final episodes of the season. If they are, I'm going to be grumpy. Well, I'm always grumpy. This will just add fuel to the fire. I am going to be so warm, which is why I sweat under the one cover while the Queen is freezing under three blankets.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm

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(12-29-2022, 11:39 AM)Greg Wrote: Ep07 and Ep08 Well, we finally found out who killed the Missing Indian Girl. We did find out who killed the guy hung in the forest but then we went headlong into cliffhanger town. Two big cliffhangers and I don't know if those were the final episodes of the season. If they are, I'm going to be grumpy. Well, I'm always grumpy. This will just add fuel to the fire. I am going to be so warm, which is why I sweat under the one cover while the Queen is freezing under three blankets.

I suspect that in your post-holiday cookie-gobbling max-the-blood-sugar state, you mistakenly posted this on the wrong thread. You really want to be here - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=7391
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True story.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm

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