Comments | winterspel: Comments on a couple films: 'Boss Of It All' & 'Guru'

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Comments on a couple films: 'Boss Of It All' & 'Guru'

Apr 30, 2007 22:36

Friday night, I went to see Danish film Boss Of It All, a hilarious romp that was, as icajoleu described, a bit like Denmark Does 'The Office.' Directed by noted film maker Lars von Trier, it follows out-of-work actor Kristoffer who is hired by Ravn to "act" as the "Boss of it All" for Ravn's company. Ravn confesses early in the film that he always felt ( Read more... )

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ginzarhapsody May 1 2007, 03:16:54 UTC

My dad really likes Guru. We own it on DVD and he was watching in on Sunday while I was packing so I watched chunks at a time. I do like the songs and Aish and Abhishek rock in terms of acting, so I'm eager to sit down and give it a proper watching. :)

winterspel May 1 2007, 14:13:29 UTC

I wrote about some of my issues with the film to dangermousie below, but I'd love to see what you think of the film overall once you've had a chance to watch it properly! Maybe you will love it, too, as many people seem to. As I said in my comments - I loved the romance and seeing how Guru pulls himself up from humble beginnings. That was all fantastic and very enteretaining! I just didn't like seeing what he became in the end - bloated, over-confident, and deeply corrupt.

dangermousie May 1 2007, 13:30:12 UTC

I saw Guru a while back and really loved it. I did a long write-up on it here: http://dangermousie.livejournal.com/679287.html#cutid1 if you are interested, but a quick note about the corruption part: I think it didn't bother me at all because I grew up in a corrupt society where this sort of thing (bribes, manipulation) was the only way to get things done. So I had no problem with someone subverting an obsolete system. I belong to a Bollywood board and actually after the movie came out, there was an interesting dichotomy of response. A lot of people from India (or from places like where I am from) had no problem with that aspect of Guru (the movie or the character) but people who were from much better run places did not like it at all...

winterspel May 1 2007, 14:10:55 UTC

It's interesting that you should say that because one of the people I went to see this with was born and raised in India and she was almost offended that the festival had chosen this film - and she, like me, was disturbed that the film made a hero out of a man sunk into corruption ( ... )