Just finished watching Look, an unheralded, little-known movie, which is clearly the "inspiration" behind LSD. (I am highly surprised no one found out about this movie yet! Quite a few concepts in LSD are clearly clearly taken from here!)
Look is a brilliant film in all respects, true to the core and very neutrally narrated...The stories are gut-wrenching and leave you with an aftertaste alright, but its to the credit of the director that he whips up such a simple yet complex inter-twining of tales that is not only delightfully novel but entertains! The stories keep you hooked because 
you want to know how they end, and the director manages to tie up all loose ends except a couple that are kept open on purpose. The end is just hard-hitting and overall, the movie brought back memories from a lot of good flicks like Life in a Metro and Mumbai Meri Jaan, not for the similarity in story but the similarity in feelings 
they evoked. Performances are extremely competent and most of the characters are underplayed beautifully.
The songs in the movie deserve special mention, especially noteworthy is High. Just marvel at the lyrics -
Opening a can of worms
That are now out of date
No matter what you do
Dont you dare throw them away.
A harlet sparks the boat
With regurgitating grace
We hide under a broken rainbow
Waiting for the rain to fade.
B'coz Deja Vu
Sounds like something not true
But I think
That I have seen it with you.
I am sure
I have never been here before
There's a dead marker
That is writing on the floor.
High...
About the shooting rains
Where the kids play
In that weather....we were high
And feeling okay
Where the cards change is where we...rely
High....
This is cinema that deserves to be watched! (Just read on imdb that it won the Best Film by the Grand Jury at the CineVegas Awards. At least someone saw and appreciated it!).
P.S. : You can watch the movie here. It contains a considerable amount of nudity and violence so watch it at your own peril if you are too judgemental!
3 comments:
Thx for the link... downloading it right now. I hope LSD is not a complete rip off or i'll be pretty disappointed in DeeBee!
Well its not a complete rip-off...but LSD is clearly inspired from a lot of parts in Look...and u kno wt...Look is so much better and LSD borrows so much from it tht unfortunately, my views abt LSD have changed after watching it! I am already pretty disappointed in DB for not even mentioning Look ever in any of the countless interviews he gave, where he sort of bragged about how this idea occurred to him...In fact, I found a few of Adam Rifkin's interviews exactly similar to DB's (even Look's trailer is eerily similar!!)...this is like the pseudo-ripoff of the year! :(
Would like to hear from you Harsh, once you have seen the film...
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