18th
Parineeta (spoiler)
I liked this movie. During the climax, I was thinking to myself, “this is ridiculous,” and yet I had this grand feeling of elation. Grand, sweeping metaphors that had been built up throughout the movie came to a head nicely at the end (building a wall that was then broken down; the ruthless, rich father business person that ends up bankrupt in all other senses). It was clean and well executed from beginning to end, except that him becoming a man could have been developed a little bit more so that I didn’t still kind of think he was unworthy of the girl at the end. However, with movies like these I always wonder whether I’m ok with things because I’m a dude - the climax ended in a loving embrace despite the fact that his last two encounters with her involved physical assault.
