02-26-2007, 09:26 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Feb 26 2007, 09:06 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 26 2007, 09:06 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b> "The Lives of Others" wins best foreign language film </b>
I am happy rubbish from India lost it <!--emo&
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Anyway, even DVD reviewers think that Mehta is highly overrated from the films they've had to sit through. The only purpose that nomination could have served was to bring attention to subversive 'Indian' cinema and make it popular. But as it turns out, it was probably such a badly-filmed movie they couldn't justify awarding it in spite of the fondness for the topic.
(With 'subversive' in the above paragraph:
I'm not commenting on the film's borderline gay/bisexual characters or anything (not a bigot), just on how Mehta depicts the Hindu men who play the husbands and consequently her vapid lies about how Hinduism and Hindu society is restrictive of women.)
I am happy rubbish from India lost it <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> [right][snapback]64974[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Time to celebrate. <!--emo&:thumbsup--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbup.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbup.gif' /><!--endemo--> Anyway, even DVD reviewers think that Mehta is highly overrated from the films they've had to sit through. The only purpose that nomination could have served was to bring attention to subversive 'Indian' cinema and make it popular. But as it turns out, it was probably such a badly-filmed movie they couldn't justify awarding it in spite of the fondness for the topic.
(With 'subversive' in the above paragraph:
I'm not commenting on the film's borderline gay/bisexual characters or anything (not a bigot), just on how Mehta depicts the Hindu men who play the husbands and consequently her vapid lies about how Hinduism and Hindu society is restrictive of women.)