Woo-hoo! I am beginning to feel like I am getting back to regular life! Watchalong, I made my own coffee, I’ve started laundry, life is good.
Mom! It’s dark, it’s twisted, it’s satisfying, it’s Sridevi! Very excited to share it with y’all
At 7:30am Chicago time I will put up an “and Play” comment and then we can all comment along from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
Their porch is their own potted jungle.
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And it’s another sign of Sridevi as the perfect upperclass wife and mother and housewife, keeping that house running like clockwork.
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unattainable. I have more sympathy with imperfect people. That said I think Sridevi is great! A better actress now than when she was younger. I suppose that is not unusual. She died too young.
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I like it, I think everyone overlooks her because she is “just” a housewife. But if you look at her house seriously, you can see that she is very intelligent, organized, successul, all those things.
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I’m intelligent, that’s one of the reasons why my house is a mess!
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OH COME ON! It’s a private school, you can do whatever you want, just don’t let the kid back in school!
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At least in the U.S. the threat of a lawsuit would be devastating to a private school. But she should quit, and kill him. I’m waiting for her to kill him.
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Oh good, you are on the vengeance train with us.
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They turned Nazwar….’s head into a bowling ball.
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flying birds, that means all the attackers should die. I’m patiently waiting to watch the gory attacker deaths.
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Have faith in the Lord, AFTER your daughter was raped and left for dead! Sure, have faith.
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Yeah, but “God couldn’t be everywhere, that’s why he made mothers” is a pretty darn good line for this movie!
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HIJRAS! Woot! Love it. All kinds of female power in this movie.
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Is this the guard, is the first vengance on the guard?
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yep! The unplaned crime of opportunity guy. She’s working her way up.
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Ooooo! Hijra’s do their own castrations, it’s a whole ceremony. So that’s why she used them she knew they could do it right and make sure he survived.
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But then he died? And are news reports always in English in India?
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He slipped and hit his head when he saw what had happened. So she didn’t intend to kill him, but it workec out anyway.
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It is kinda disturbing, this idea that vengeance brings healing. One attacker dies and she looks out the window. If only it were so easy.
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I see it the other way, that this movie is saying healing is the goal, vengeance is incidental. Everyone’s looking at the angry people, when they should be looking at the caregi ver.
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That is a good way to look at it. Perhaps the movie is saying both.
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Love it. Her husband wants vengeance or justice or something. She just goes for “my daughter feels bad because these men are alive. I will kill them, and then she will feel better”.
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ooooh bloody art, just like the Mad logo.
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Do you know this story? Draupadi said she would leave her hair unbound until she could bath it in the blood of her enemies. Because women are TOUGH.
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Wasn’t Draupadi the one with five husbands?
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Yep! And she ordered all her 5 husbands to kill the man who disrespected her.
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Further reference:
https://dichotomy-of-irony.blogspot.com/2017/11/momof-revenge-and-mahabharata.html
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Did he have a giant picture of HIMSELF on the wall?
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Two pictures of himself on walls.
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He feels like that kind of dude.
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The fact that they exist outside of age 15 always amazes me.
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Oh how is Sridevi going to explain her face…
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APPLES! I LOVE IT!!!! The female/mother symbolism is off the charts.
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Oooh, I didn’t see the framing coming, NICE!
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Wait, her face healed that fast?!?
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She’s MAGIC
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This kind of calculated and sneaky type of vengeance is so satisfying to watch
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I love Akshaye’s complete disinterest in this kid.
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OH no she left her glasses!
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And they are so distinctive!!!
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Hey look Genevieve! They are showing a long term trauma and recovery! It’s depressing, but accurate.
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Oh man Sridevi! you are COLD
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Akshaye! NOOOO!!! Let her just do her vengeance thing!
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I think it was a strategic error to visit narcissist cousin, but his paralyzed face was awesome to see freaking out.
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And how could you resist? Especially telling the nurse “oh, he was one of my favorite students!”
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Husband has nooooooooooo idea! Just like he has no idea how much work goes into making his house nice and so on and so forth. Sridevi just does stuff, and his life works out for him.
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So, stop doing all the work and ask him to help, and he’ll figure it out soon enough!
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Ask him to help with vengeance? Probably a bad idea. But he could do the laundry probably.
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Yay! Second pair of glasses! Good save, for now.
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So is Akshaye good or not good? Violent police, wouldn’t they want to hit the bad guys? I’m just too American.
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Akshaye is a law and order guy. Wants to arrest the rapists, now wants to arrest the vigilantes.
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I love his paralyzed face!
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Well, genevieve, you were right. That was a tactical error.
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I’m ever so clever. But a terrible housewife.
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The scary music with a happy “Yeah” twist was fun.
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Ah the era of landlines…
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Nawazuddin! And his wig!
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Ah, well, now they have a real way to get that guy in prison. But it was fun watching his bowling ball head.
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So is Sridevi responsible for Nawazuddin’s death? He is such a good character actor, I will miss him for the rest of the movie.
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Yes, but also Nawazuddin went in with eyes open. He knew this was a dangerous game.
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kinda surprised he didn’t have his own gun in the office, but again, I’m American.
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Rain is used in a different way in this film. Kinda cool.
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sign of the cross, Akshaye is Christian. Don’t know why it matters, but they included it.
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I think Akshaye is Christian, and Nawazuddin is Muslim. So there’s a nice sort of religious unity in the vengeance.
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But Nawazuddin said had faith in lord Ram?
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Then I don’t know.
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NO!!! They killed the DAD! NO!!! Not fair.
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WE don’t know that!!!! He could just be injured
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Where is the little girl?
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YES!
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Wow Akshaye is a bad shot.
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She said she was putting the little girl down, right? So she would know the little girl was safe in her bedroom when he came down and saw the bad guy.
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Snowballs! Throw snowballs!
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Hey, husband is alive! That’s good.
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Oooh, good line. Use the right gun. SHoot him!
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This is satisfying, but why the heck did Akshaye change his mind all of a sudden???
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Did he change his mind? He kinda did didn’t he. Perhaps when she said nothing will happen again. And he just knows the guy killed the detective too. But if he enters that evidence he has to enter the evidence of what Sridevi did.
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Or was it his Christianity? Thou shall not kill? Is there no prohibition against killing in Hindu?
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I said that sarcastically, which you can’t tell in print.
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The continuing to pull the trigger is a nice touch.
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See, this is how you win over your bratty teenage daughter. When she learns you killed a bunch of people fo rher.
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Yup!
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Well Netflix cut off the final credits and I could have sat with that for longer.
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It’s a real thinker, isn’t it? And it’s Sridevi’s last role, so kind of a funny one to end with.
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Well she was great. All her tears were totally believable. It must have been an exhausting role to play.
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Thank you for the watch a long Margaret!
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I am so glad I got to watch that again! It’s as well done as I remember. Very different kind of vengeance story, so female focused and survivor focused.
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I am a bit behind, but this is such a good movie. Had to take care of some things in between. Thanks for the watchalong, Margaret and Genevieve!!
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