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She’s very important to the story of the Angulo brothers.The Look of Silence is a serious and honourable film. Eventually, as Oppenheimer tracks down and meets the two men who actually killed Ramli, they happily go to the site of the murder, by the Snake river, and reenact it.Shot in Delhi’s All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, without the authorisation of the AIIMS bosses, Placebo is in a stealth documentary that’s trying to understand why the brightest amongst us — MIT’s acceptance rate, the film announces at the start, is 9 per cent, while AIIMS’ acceptance rate is 0. We watch six boys emerge from a theatre late at night, having watched David O Russell’s The Fighter.7 — who get here against all odds, often fall by the wayside, never deliberately, never without crying out for help. Or, simply, watches and listens to boys and their obscene banter. Only they’d dare to show Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary diptych — The Act of Killing (2012), and The Look of Silence (2014).It also gives way to anger, threats. It is also profoundly shattering because many men who spilt blood remember what it tasted like. The Wolfpack, culled from over 500 hours of recording and some footage from home videos, is hypnotic and haunting. Using animation, director’s ominous voiceover, Kumar’s film asks whether an anti-ragging move by the authorities has actually led to isolation of these kids, leaving them without any support and seniors to reach out to. Four students agreed to be interviewed and stalked. A former leader of an anti-communist paramilitary group, now the speaker of a regional legislature, tells Adi after listening to his questions, “If you make an issue of it, it will happen again.That daring, without any serious repercussions, meant that they all started venturing out, into that loud, bright, crowded place outside their apartment building. The film delves into the minds and lives of these kids who make it through cut-throat competition, but then can’t deal with the pressure, the isolation, leading to, at times, suicide of classmates no one remembers ever meeting. It’s sad, strange and yet reassuring about the human spirit’s dogged attempts to be free.We know that movies offer an escape from our daily, humdrum reality. The Wolfpack Isolation, in a sense, was the theme of this year’s Dharamshala International Film Festival. If they remember how and why he was killed. It’s not.

The Act of Killing, which was nominated for an Oscar, tells the story of the slaughter of about 1 million “communists” in Indonesia in 1965-1966, following an attempted coup that led to the ouster of President Sukarno.Apart from the almost enforced pursed-lipped, hushed solemnity Singh brings to his films, and the jarring, long, Mani Kaul-esque shots which, sadly, in his movies are not meditative pauses but feel as if he left the camera running and wandered off, Chauthi Koot is a beautifully gentle oblique comment on the madness that engulfed Punjab in the 1980s. Moselle met the six brothers about four years ago, on one of their exploratory outings into the world outside their apartment. It became, as if, their own sub cult, in rebellion to their father’s. The Look of Silence watches Adi watching the boasts of men from the celebrated killer squads in The Act of Killing, cutting to Adi’s aged parents — his blind and senile father and still grieving and angry mother. And I do have a quibble or two about the films Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam decided to open and close this year’s festival with (the recently released Titli and the much feted and fawned over Masaan), but in their politics I have full faith. She is their first major link to the aliens outside – guiding, helping, acclimatizing the six brothers to the world outside their apartment. Also about their clout, their connection to the top, about how their former bosses became rich and powerful and are now in government. He sits through long moments of devastating silences, waiting to see if the steely gaze will give way to something else. Adapted from Grandma’s Tales, the film tells four stories about four mothers and their relationship with their children, one of whom is an outenga (elephant apple) and another who is married off to a python. The boys, reed-thin and with flowing long hair, are surprisingly bright, funny, expressive, charming, very decent and delightfully androgynous. Stay for the credits to see how many Indonesians who worked and collaborated on the documentary are listed as “anonymous”. The Act of Killing was an audacious film that got the better of them.The Wolfpack, which won the US grand jury prize at Sundance, is the story of six Angulo brothers SELF-CLINCHING NUTS Company from Lower East Side Manhattan, New York, who, now ranging in age from 16 to 23 years, were not allowed to leave their four-bedroom apartment by their Peruvian father Oscar. Now in its fifth year, the festival, as always, had an impressive line up.The Look of Silence is a serious and honourable film. They’d transcribe the dialogue of Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and superhero flicks word for word, type them out, learn the lines, fashion costumes, including cardboard guns, and then enact The Dark Knight, for example, with the Batman costume created from yoga mats and cereal boxes. She followed them, talked to them and convinced them to let her film their story. But she’s not, of course.Singh’s Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction), set in Punjab in 1984, is based on the short stories of Waryam Singh Sandhu. An acknowledgement, an admission, some truth, some regret perhaps. Now in its fifth year, the festival, as always, had an impressive line up, though not all films were as exhilarating and stunning as they’ve been in the previous years. Not just watching them, but enacting them very seriously. end-of.”Sometimes we’d go out nine times a year, sometimes once. Gangster means ‘free men’. One man tells him how he drank the blood of the communists he killed.Isolation, in a sense, was the theme of this year’s Dharamshala International Film Festival. And when Adi tells them it’s brother he’s asking about, a brother who was killed before he was born, none expresses regret. There’s magic realism, superstition, the dark arts, and more, all pirouetting on one emotion — a child’s desperate need for mother’s love.”Bhagavan, Govinda, Mukunda, Narayana, Krsna and Jagadisa open up slowly, about how they’ve lived their lives, and in their expressions, silences we read and sense many things — the love they have for each other, their resilience, and what’s left unsaid but implied — abuse. A few stood out, of course, like Bhaskar Hazarika’s Assamese feature film Kothanodi and Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot. Wearing a mask from the Halloween movie, he wandered on the streets around his house for a bit before he was picked up by the cops and sent to a mental hospital. Oscar and Visnu tug at the film disturbingly. The brothers developed an obsessive love and need for movies. Talking and listening to them with a hand-held camera in their four-bedroom apartment for over four years led to the 84-minute long documentary that’s as disturbing as it is heartwarming.”It’s heartbreaking to hear these men say the same things — “forget the past,” “move on,” “Why are you talking politics ” — when Adi seeks so little. The lush, green, rain-washed setting is in violent contrast to the bloodletting they are reliving with relish.

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