![]() In an interview (via Variety), director Antoine Fuqua (who directed The Guilty from a van) says the fires were a nod to Dante’s Inferno and the idea that Joe’s character is in a kind of purgatory during the film. Adding to this already thrilling element from the original film, The Guilty has the kidnapping take place during the very real California wildfires, further rooting the film in true events. This scenario was taken directly from a real, 20-minute 911 call that Möller listened to on YouTube in which the caller spoke in code. Trapped in a vehicle with her kidnapper, Emily works to communicate her situation and location to Joe, all while pretending that she is speaking to her young daughter Abby. Go watch Pink again.In The Guilty, the plot twists follow Joe as he tracks a kidnapped woman, Emily (played by Riley Keough). One extra star, just for the subject matter. ![]() With the film’s director, writers and dialogue writer all being women, Guilty could have been that film that talked to us. Just a polite shout out to the writers, not every kid from the north east in DU is called Tashi.Īs we now inhabit offices where many accused of the #metoo movement are back and we as a society are trying to deal with it all, Guilty had an opportunity to take forward the conversation but this is certainly no Pink. But in the end, the big melodramatic moment, which takes place on a stage, is everything Karan Johar, sans the Manish Malhotra lehengas and lavish sets. Here, the ‘youngsters’ are all smoking weed, getting sloshed, and talking in swear words that would not look out of place in an Anurag Kashyap film. Kiara Advani is reduced to the ‘tortured-artistic-creative’ types, and Tanu Sharma, in her ill-fitting clothes is a poor caricature of the small- town-girl with big dreams.Īlso, Dharmatic, this alter ego of Dharma, inhabits a world, where they are trying hard to counter the ‘it’s all about loving your parents’ brief of the parent company. Not once do we feel any empathy for any of the characters. We get that the writers wished to reflect that strong, independent, expressive women shouldn’t be slut-shamed and that a no is a no but the way they bumble their way through it leaves much to be desired. But it’s the other infractions and the rather insipid treatment that lets you down. Rather a mainstream film on the given matter, in a post #metoo world would have helped take the conversation forward. The problem with Guilty is not the subject matter or the premise. On a fateful Valentine’s day celebration, things happen and later at a time when the #metoo movement is at its peak, a tweet by Tanu accuses VJ of rape. But as she is a ‘scholarship kid’ and doesn’t fit into the elite, English-medium wala trope, almost everyone in college keeps her at a distance. Enter Tanu Sharma from Dhanbad, whose chosen pronoun for herself is hum, who is unabashed about her desires – which includes VJ – and not apologetic about the attention she seeks. His girlfriend Nanki (Kiara Advani), in her black nail polish-tattooed-boyfriend jeans-wearing-Virginia-Wolf -goth glory, is the songwriter for the band. Set in an elite Delhi University college, the story is told through the shenanigans of a college band Doobydo, whose lead vocalist is VJ, son of an imminent politician. Dharmatic presents Guilty, a two-hour film which speaks about rape, consent, privilege, slut-shaming, power dynamics, the he-said, she-said diatribe, etc. This sounds like the perfect launch pad for Dharmatic, the supposed alter ego of Dharma Productions, under the aegis of Karan Johar. A story about the college heart throb being accused of rape by a not-so-popular girl, in the shadow of the recent #metoo movement.
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