Genre – Foreign
Movie Total Runtime – 2 Hours 54 Minutes
Spoilers – Yes
So we have come to what may be the final boss of “I know nothing about this work.” I got it for pocket change at Goodwill. I don’t know the premise. I don’t know the actors. I don’t know the country of origin. I don’t even know what language it’s in. There are English subtitles, so I’ll give it a try. Fair warning – I have a hard time listening to the sound of some languages. So if it is grating to my ear, I might try muting it to see if I can keep following. But “too foreign for my blood” might lead to abandonment. Honestly, the main thing that will keep me going is stubbornness. I am not looking forward to this.
Well, first screen answers a shedload of questions. They open with a still of their certification paperwork from the “Central Board of Film Certification” of the Government of India. It’s a multilingual document and in the English fields, I am able to glean that the spoken language is Tamil, and that it is rated something like “PG-12”. This does not actually bode well for me. I haven’t met a language from the subcontinent I can listen to for three hours.
The credits continue to have multilingual text, but not all of it has an English entry, even with subtitles on. I know I’m not the target audience, but I’m mentioning it as part of the overall experience and difficulty in watching the piece. We start in a medical school as the instructor swaps between languages talking about the brain. The dialog continues to switch languages as the students who sound too empty-skulled to be there marvel at the brain. Switching languages mid-sentence is painful. It doesn’t help that the subtitles are not left up long enough. I have seen this type of language switching in real life, but, it doesn’t come off as natural for these “actors”. We’ve got four planks of wood talking in three different languages.
In another bizarre design choice, they do multiple close ups of the file the students choose for their project. The audience is meant to notice the bright red “Short-Term Memory Loss”, but right below it is a line saying “Volume of the prostate”. Why the heck would that be the next line in the file? Herr Doktor Professor rejects that patient file for their project but takes no convincing to discuss the details of the case. Brain-damaged Sanjay is the patient, who took an iron bar to the head.
Brain-damaged Sanjay has a more severe form of the amnesia from Memento. This somehow doesn’t stop him from kicking the tar out of a long-haired dude in a prop room. The amount of fake blood tossed about is somewhat comical as Brain-Damaged Sanjay kills the guy with a faucet. He proceeds to document his crime in polaroid.
Is this Bollywood Memento?
Cut-rate forensics dudes process the fight scene as obvious bad guy rolls up with his posse to see what’s happened. I know India’s police funding is likely embezzled along the way, but can’t you even afford gloves? Brain-Damaged Sanjay takes a tuktuk back to his place. I admit, they chose well when casting Brain-Damaged Sanjay, his sole expression is “dull confusion”.
The longer this goes on, the more it becomes clear that they just ripped off Memento. A lot. One thing they didn’t try to use was the backwards story structure, as this movie continues in normal forward linear time. They also added a seriously aggressive soundtrack that beats you about the ears.
The cops spot Brain-Damaged Sanjay on a bus, but instead of pursuing in the vehicle they were in, try to catch it on foot, giving him time to get off and proceed to the next scene. From his actions, I don’t buy memory loss. Regular brain damage, sure, but he recognizes things that should have fallen from memory. The cast hasn’t been well-established so I’m second guessing whether it’s the cop who catches Brain-Damaged Sanjay in BDS’s apartment. We get a flashback as whoever has tied him up reads his diary. Before the incident, Brain Damaged Sanjay ran a cell phone company.
In what I thought was a caricature of Bollywood, the presumed female lead is introduced with a song and dance number – the first in the movie. It gave me a headache. Somebody put this annoying woman out of my misery. This Tylenol had better work.
At the end of the musical number the backup dancers literally vanish – without a switch in camera angle. Annoying Woman is an actress in a soap commercial but vanishes when yelled at. I’m not sure what it means. She’s back later in the same scene.
The Tylenol didn’t work. Not well enough.
Apparently we’re still in the flashback because representatives from Not Yet Brain-Damaged Sanjay’s company come to talk to Presumptive Leading Woman. The Ad Director changes how he treats her in hopes of getting business from the company to make ads. The rest of the staff pressure her to accept Sanjay’s advances for their own gain should the business benefit.
I’ve got to take a break and see if my headache goes away.
Some time later, it has helped my head, but I have no interest in hitting “play” on the movie. If all I have to look forward to is more aggressive soundtrack, comically subpar action, painful song and dance numbers, piss-poor acting, and a cribbed plot… Well that sounds perfect for a different recurring series. Hey, RJ, can you find this one on streaming?
Update – RJ said “Unfortunately, No.”
I don’t think Bollywood is for me.
So….back to Goodwill with it?
🤔
I might draw some satisfaction from feeding the disc into my shredder (it’s got a special CD/DVD slot for that fuction)
I think I put it in a box somewhere.
If you can’t stand the foreign language, mute and turn on some music.
It’s just like watching one of the old silent movies, before the talkies came along.
There is one problem with that plan – the subtitles skip spoken English.
congrats to Mojo if she stops by again
👋🏻
You both done good, Moj, many congrats
“Honestly, the main thing that will keep me going is stubbornness.” That’s the spirit! We’ll make a politician of you, yet. (I’m sure you’ve got a craven desire for Power buried deep inside you somewhere… some Soul-Searching Gloves’ll find it.)
Memento is such a good movie. Very clever, well acted and executed. Was, is, one of my favorites. Tried watching it again with then-gf a couple times and couldn’t get through it. At that point, I was still very concerned with my own wiggling memory and wasn’t in the right setting for it. So it’s been a bit, and it would likely be a fond-memory rewatch at this point.
Would love to watch it with someone seeing it for the first time. Not a great First Date, but would be a great Date Night w someone.
I watched most of Robin Hood and the Pirates last night. I did not feel guilty about turning it off and going to bed.
It is September 13th, 2026 and Deshaun Watson still sucks.
He was a fucking embarrassment, and Monken is defending his garbage ass.
How bout dem Vikings?!?!
I was watching that after I got home. Green Bay collapsed like the Browns… or tOSU.
I have only sympathy for you.
If he’s not gonna join you, toss his ass.
https://archive.is/tcqqc
“I’m welcome at any time. It’s a big property. As well as the main couple, there are four lodgers in residence too. All are broad minded and experimental. If I find myself bored at 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon I know I can pop in for a bit of fun.
Sadly, my husband doesn’t approve. He thinks they’re disgusting and has made me promise that I won’t stray, but how can I keep away? ”
Jane: “Arrange a chat and explain that your life feels hollow and meaningless. ApologiZe for cheating (because that’s what you’re doing) and see if you can start again.”
Yeah, how about not cheating? “Hollow and meaningless” without hooking up with the neighbors? Yuh-huh. Jane also finds her sexual health more important than her relationship, so I shouldn’t be surprised. My guess? The dude(s) over there is/ are a lot cuter than her man. I don’t believe any floating group of 6+ can be sexually involved without any emotion soaking into it.
Like ‘my’ generation and tats, it’s a way to show they’re ‘edgy’ without having the personality, accomplishments or interests to justify that they’re actually, truly, interesting people. Such has been added to my List of reasons why I don’t have any ink. Pure-born, virgin skin here, Pie. And none of it yours…. *neener neener!*
Massive population increase, digital personless existences, Participation Trophies for all? Kids have no reason TO feel special. (They aren’t.) I guess fucking your (assuredly bi-) neighbors is a fun adventure on the way to ruining a relationship, I suppose. That’s home-wrecker interesting, at least! *shrug*
My neighbor on base and his wife let my wife and I know that they were swingers about six months into them living in our split building. But they told us individually which was weird. Philippino guy and his wife of convenience.
Wife and I thought it was pretty funny and skeezy at the same time.
So did you swing with them? 😉
Told you separately? Like him to you and his wife to your misses? Well. That seems appropriate, truthfully.
Was she hot is a great question for my gain. Still weirded out my brother did the same with the SiL to me, but as a ‘Her Choice’ thing. They’re into some swinging of some sort, swapping wives or whatever, but she wanted his younger brother. Huh. Would love to! Other than The Patriarchy she’s always on about, she’s much more like me than him.
HOWEVER! I’m glad I easily, gracefully walked away from that. She has made it into my ‘special’ bank a couple times, I admit.
No. That was an invitation that got no reply.
We did eat dinner with them a couple times. His mom lived with them and the food was bangen.
Evan, she was kinda cute for an Asian gal I guess. Not at all my type.
“Toss his ass”
If he’s into that.
If she doesn’t respect you or your decisions, you aren’t married, you’re just renting.
Leave.
Yep.
“Brain-Damaged Sanjay” would be an excellent Glibs handle.
🤨
Brain-Damaged Argh-Jay?
Withnail & I is on TCM for some reason. Huh. Fond memories of this flick in college. I think it holds up very well, for what it is, if I’m not mistaken.
Starts out darker than I recall. Well done! May not flip.
I wish I got that channel.
Both Spectrum (NY) and now Verizon (NJ) put that in a higher plan I didn’t want to pay for.
Strangeness in opening: The papers’ headlines include ‘Boy turns into woman, dreams answered’ and separate, similar trans-focused story.
XY is telling me this preposterous story about “DEF” (diesel exhaust fluid) that goes in diesel engines, and I’m sitting here listening to this bullshit going, “This cannot be real.”
Urea? Yes, it is a thing.
Urea is a lot of things for a lot of things. It should NOT be part of a government regulation.
Inject idea into the exhaust and burn more fuel with an extra injector into the exhaust for the environment!!
Never mind all the fires started by the now hot exhaust and the entire industry that had to be created to make and ship the DEF and the hundreds of thousands of engines destroyed a year by clogged diesel particulate filters.
It’s ‘good’ for the environment.
The entire NOx scam created the diesel gate VW deal and was designed to destroy the trucking industry in favor of trains, which remain exempt and are nearly fully unionized. Obama’s transportation secretary did everything he could to eliminate as many CDL lisences as he could.
So like the catalyst on your car a diesel has one too. I think its vanadium or some other metal zeolite unlike the trace platinum that meth-heads love to saw off.
The system shoots ammonia in the form of urea on it, and in the presence of exhaust gas takes out oxides of nitrogen (NOx). Ive often wondered what would happen if I just pissed in the reservoir. Or put water in it.
Not entirely. The EPA regulates locomotive production too with the result of ending longtime models, driving some manufacturers out, and scrapping units long before they otherwise would have.
Water will freeze, which the DEF will too as it comes out of solution pretty easy. Water would trick the system into thinking the tank is full at least and probably wouldn’t clog the filter.
When o was looking for a replacement worktruck my number one requirement be that it was pre DEF/DPF. That line is 2009/2010.
It’s big money to repair the systems which are the most common form of engine failure on big trucks now.
Trains are epa regulated, just not as much as the trucks. They are a favored class. The epa rule change killed caterpillar as a truck engine manufacturer. CA tried to regulate the trains like they were trucks and the Unions pushed back and stopped the rule change. It old have ended rail in CA. Which would have been funny as hell frankly.
Even the off road equipment got snagged into it.
Why do modern combines burn down now? Most often because of the superheated exhaust and wheat straw.
Lessons in unintended consequences.
Intrastate truckers are deleting their trucks and guys are keeping and doing complete rebuilds on trucks that are 40 years old now to avoid the regulations and cost of a new truck that the regulations have inflated.
DEF is the devil.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWekLP16mAo&ra=m
Very young, fit, and pulled on a leash! Best bit: Shaved head, remaining hair in an arrow, dyed blue, pointing down at his face and beyond.
“NY Dem House candidate modeled for XXX-rated BDSM ads while serving in National Guard
Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop, The Post can reveal.
Gallant appeared in multiple pics for “Mr. S Leather,” a San Francisco-based purveyor of leather-daddy supplies, wearing collars, leather straps, neoprene, bondage gear, and more.”
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The most recent instance of his apparent X-rated modeling being used to tout a sex toy appears to have been around 2020, based on data from the Wayback Machine, where he was shown in an image marketing the “Simple Posture Collar” for $89.95.
The Post contacted “Mr. S Leather” for comment.” HHAHAHAHAH!!
When he was 19. Dude.
lol Dumbass
He whines about having to hid who he was because of DADT.
He’s 37.
An officer in the guard.
DADT ended 15 years ago.
Punk didn’t have to hide shit. He probably got promoted faster because he was gay. As did the gays in my unit. All the special treatment.
How many mil-gays are there really? It seems like it has to be a vanishingly tiny percentage to me. Like, way less than in the gen-pop even.
I was shocked Rhy.
I joined in the spring of 04.
My unit was authorized to have 175, he usually ran about 150-155.
Of the known ones I calculated 7.5% plus the gals that were BI. It blew my mind as to how many there were. Granted we were a support unit and about 40% female with a couple bull dukes whose mission was to convert the fresh new E1 females.
The women in particular got promoted. Especially after DADT got repealed, they all went to the board leaving the straight white guys in the dust. The straight gals that put out to the chain of command got promoted like crazy too for some unknown reason.
I had one guy everyone thought was gay. The company XO. There was another guy who I’d say was probably like pansexual. Like he’d probably fuck anything honestly and was kind of or totally 100% ‘tarded. Got caught with a guy at some point while married. Was sending emails to a woman he was dating about how cool it’d be if she pegged him with a strapon. Weird shit like that.
But otherwise, my unit was straight and pretty hostile to the gays.
Maybe a lot of gay-larping? Fake gaying.
That was not a thing in my generation.
Sadly, this will detract from rather more relevant questions such as how communist are you really? Average current year Democrat communist; more, less?
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of collar and leash play.
NTTAWWT, natch.
Agreed. I would have hit that 20 years ago.
Evan, Dfaq?
@Threedoor: ?? Why am I getting dfuqed?
I have no idea what natch means much less that acryonm.
I misread “Dfaq? as “dfuq” which I presumed was ‘da fuck’ in black text slang.
I don’t know why my “Dfaq” is being questioned. Oh, I thought about putting it on before, but stopped myself.
*gumshoe face affixed*
natch means “naturally”
NTT[I]WWT means “not that there is anything wrong with that”
“NTTAWWT, natch” = “Not that there’s anything wrong with that, naturally.”
I got confused on absolutely the wrong part in my haste to get ready for bed. Everyone answered for me, and thanks.
You kids and your internet slang.
Go kill it tomorrow Evan.
Natch strikes me as Hollywood slang – probably decades older than the internet.
Was he the BDSM Avatar?
Seems to scraping further into the bottom of the barrel for both parties.
So much this.
Put this in the wrong place.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWekLP16mAo&ra=m
Popped into Harbor Freight today. Fuck, nothing is cheap anymore.
Except the quality of manufacture.
Got that right.
Good on Sears to screw Craftsman. There is no middle of the road quality hobbiest tools out there anymore.
One of the AWFLs at church was always big on bipartisanship and pols cooperating with each other and working together to solve problems. Today on her Facebook page she called Sen. Fetterman an asshole and wished she’d never voted for him. I’m liking Fetterman more every day (but won’t be voting for him.)
Vote Lump for bipartisanship!!
He might be the last sane Democrat but he’s still a Democrat and he votes Democrat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does count if he doesn’t vocally support [current thing]?
I just opened Wikipedia- they beg harder for money than Yusef.
Ha!
I’m not giving money to a lefty misinformation center.
Or anyone that censorious.
I donated once like 15 years ago. When I was young and stupider.
Once upon a time the people who founded Wikipedia weren’t necessarily shitbags who just wanted to control a narrative. You’d probably have to go back a while at this point though.
#MeToo
It’s funny because when I told you all that years ago, I seem to recall getting attacked by you in particular. Not just you, but you were there. It’s a true story bro.
I don’t think that’s what’s going on with Toxteth lately funny enough. I get some people being frustrated with her. There’s no saying that she makes any sense. But she doesn’t seem to have been working towards a scam. If she was, she certainly had chances to collect.
It’s not funny for sure.
It’s odd though.
My understanding is that the donations go to their foundation which is basically a progressive policy implementation vehicle.
Wikipedia itself costs almost nothing to run.
Harsh but fair.
This is the second football game of the season on NBC. Bro hasn’t yet complained Mike Tomlinson is part of the half time show. Can someone check on him?
Mediocre Mike is right where he belongs. Spewing word salads that I can mute and safely not coaching a NFL team that I have a childish attachment to.
I’m relieved.
…(hick)…Mike Tomlin/Former Coach…LaDainian Tomlinson/Former Running Back…
/football pendant
I would never play the “veteran” card, but the older I get the more I’m like why the fuck shouldn’t I? At least some part of me.
Asking for basic fairness at work with people who rely on me to do the real work, people who I guarantee would claim to support the troops and who actually no-shit voted for Bush the Lesser, are very very happy to cite their mere existence at a job for a long period of time (because they sure as fuck can’t argue they add more value than I do, not to anyone who has actually spent a day working with any of us). Sorry I was in Iraq at the time so you’re right I don’t have seniority at soulless mega corp bro. And now I’m just the one who gets to do all the actual real work here, too! It’s fun stuff. Really.
I could get VA benefits. Everyone pushes me to. Instead I sit back and watch a bunch of people who don’t speak English collect benny’s where I’m at. Like left and right from the grocery store to the pharmacy. Had one call me “stupid” today because I didn’t understand him and his wife’s broken English. Obviously I am dumb sir, just not for the reasons you seem to think. It’s because I allow my tax dollars to be taken and given to a parasite such as yourself while taking nothing back for me. You go use that Medicaid bro.
Like having a no-shit baby mama cite her baby mama status as a reason why she deserves special treatment at work is wild to me. I’m sorry you are functionally retarded. I really am. But I sure as shit didn’t impregnate you. And then there’s the loser middle aged dude who I could beat with an open hand who has an IQ closer to room temperature than my own.
Yes I’m bitter, but really there’s no too much misanthropy. It’s all pretty damn justified.
I was supposed to look into getting 9/11 bux this weekend. Enh, maybe next weekend.
The more I reflect on that asshole’s behavior post that day – the angrier I get. And he had the unbelievable nerve the other day to claim he wants to restore normalcy?? After lying through his fucking teeth with the “religion of peace” bullshit? *sputter*
I don’t vote and never will. I’ve been accused of being a Trump supporter in the past no matter how clearly i stated that he was and only ever would be at best a fuck you to the establishment class that fancy themselves Top Men.
My rant is personal and political. The older I get, I just feel like a rube.
When I vote it’s solely to vote against Democrats. As much as both sides suck, it is my belief that one side sucks much harder.
https://tenor.com/view/tv-simpsons-cloud-fist-grandpa-gif-12082744756246344299
Welcome to older age! Those bitter old men may have had a point.
I’m beginning to think I’m a sucker for not applying for VA. Not just that alone but everything from DMV to campgrounds fees, all waived at any disability percentage.
Right. I’ll never be the guy who asks for a vet discount or anything. I had some guy at a smoke shop see my ID and offer one out of the blue. Don’t even think about that shit.
Most of the guys I was in with have gone whole in on the racket. Like one’s a full time cop who I know abuses the VA and was documenting a bunch of bullshit as he PCS’ed. He’s one of those guys whose probably 100% (no real injuries) and working full time and going to get a cop pension in Chicago.
But I can’t blame them when I look around. I meet people everyday who have done jack all who want special treatment. And then there’s the imported parasitic class I mingle with on the daily.
I wanted to strangle Juan this morning. I really fucking did. Like he can’t speak English, and that’s apparently a problem with me. They have no shame to their game.
Modern America is about victimhood status and getting yours wherever whenever. Having principles or having actually sacrificed just kind of makes you a tard.
DMV fees waved?
Shit you have to be at 100% to get anything waived in Idaho and to get 100% you have to lie your ass off.
I had no issues with getting the free pass to the National Parks and Recreation Areas because of my veteran’s status. I do have legitimate health issues from my time in but getting money for them seems “meh” to me.
The United States is a third-world country now. No use pretending otherwise.
I’ve not seriously considered going on SSDI. I’m sure it’d be ‘easy’ to get accepted, but kinda a lot of work. I also happen to have a loving and supportive family, so no risk on that side.
*shrug* I’m young and am not you. Long-term, I’m absolutely pleased I never went that route.
Permanent plates, no renewal fee (or smog test if you live where it’s required), even for 0% disability as long as it’s service connected. State parks waive fees entirely though hunting/fishing licenses requires 30% or higher. Free parking at the local airport in the short term lot. Federal cuts camping fees in addition to the free parking pass for all veterans.
I skipped the veterans discounts for years until my wife twisted my arm. If I have to do that, she can take the age one. And if Home Depot and Lowe’s want to cut 10% off, well, thanks I’ll keep my money.
The thing I was glad about with the VA was that I was Obamacare exempt while that was still a thing. Not that I would have bought insurance anyway for most of those years.
I’m glad Bush got it instead of Gore. It would have been Obama eight years earlier and a roll over to AlJazera even faster than we have.
He damn well KNEW BETTER than that damn religion of peace BS. We still haven’t had a president that has had any balls where those Iron Age demon worshippers are concerned.
Donald is as close as we’ll ever see in what remains of my lifetime. The Dems are wholly on board with submission to them and the other 99% of the GOP might complain but won’t do shit.
Yep same. I’ve never used the VA but glad it gave a get of Obamacare free card.
Off to new work tomorrow, a grueling seven-minute drive away. May have to take a smoke detour to finish the morning. My new slip-ins are actually made of leather on top. (Classy.) Tomorrow will be an interesting day. I imagine mostly paperwork tomorrow, probably some online orientation? Hopefully, I get to watch people do what I’m about to do.
*squiggly face* I hope the office is bigger than I remember. There is at least one cutie who looked like she does what I’ll be doing. Thankful for all, she looked stereotypically Frog Hairy. From my brief glance, she was in the marketing campaign to sell how the image is supposed to look. Manic Pixie version I’m a sucker for. (No, of course I won’t. Window dressing just makes the day brighter. (Now, if SHE does, well. Huh!))
Question – If you spend a long time eating reduced portion sizes, can your stomach capacity actually shrink, or is it all psychological?
I’m finding that meals that would be nothing back in my fatter days have me questioning if I can actually eat all of it. This does however reinforce the need to keep to my planned portions.
Next Sunday will be a bit awkward, since I no longer have the ability to try one of everything.
I think it will change size.
I know when I’ve gone from low carb back to a crap diet it’s been a while until I could eat as much volume, but not a super long time.
Yes, you can shrink your stomach. It’s an important part of losing weight.
I find nibbling throughout the stops me from ever feeling hungry. Just keep a little something in your stomach, and eat slowly so your stomach processes out of ‘starvation’ thinking.
Everything I’ve heard says shrinking stomach size works, but takes time + discipline.
Why am I seeing a Ken Paxton ad in California?
He’s ran out of suckers in TX to get money from?