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The Japanese Wife(2010)
Dir:Aparna Sen
Country:India

Aparna Sen’s Japanese Wife, based on the novel of the same name by Kunal Basu, is the most offbeat love triangle one can hope to come across. Snehamoy is a “chhaposha” (simple, average, middle/lower middle-class) Bengali school teacher at the Sundarbans, while Miyage is a shy Japanese girl residing in Yokohama, who, through pen-friendship, end up having a 17-year long platonic relationship and marriage despite never getting to see each other in person. The third angle is a young widow who silently loves Snehamoy, who in turn gets subtly attracted to her physically. The movie is, lets face it, based on an improbable premise, and the emotional impact is not as much as a movie such as this ought to have. But the acting of Rahul Bose as the soft-spoken teacher, Moushumi Chatterjee as his loquacious aunt, and especially Raima Sen as the young widow, are pitch-perfect, which in turn get amply complemented by the impressive photography – the tranquility and fury of the region and the river Matla have been very well captured. The standout moment in the movie – the kite-flying competition between Bengali and Japanese kites; the overhead shots of the soaring kites took the film to a different plane altogether at times

ക്യാപിറ്റലിസ്റ്റ് മാനിഫെസ്റ്റോ : വര്‍ക്കിംഗ്‌ മെന്‍ ഓഫ് ഓള്‍ കന്ട്രീസ് ,അക്കുമുലെട്റ്റ്

Capitalist manifesto:Working Men of all countries,
Accumulate(2003)

Dir;Gok Kim & Sun Kim
Country:Korea
With their characteristic dark, manic wit, the Kim Brothers offer a sardonic parable of the logic of capitalism: the endless cycle of wealth production and profit and the endless cycle of desire and gratification, both running inexorably towards crisis -- as experienced when supply exceeds demand. The characters are an exploited vendor of porno videos, a teenage prostitute and a hooker who uses her physical assets as collateral for stakes in a floating crap game. The narrative loops and twists like a Moebius strip, while the various settings keep interfacing like spaces in an MC Escher hall of mirrors. Brilliantly original.

A strange and yet unique story about hoodlums who spend
most of their times either on gambling or dealing pornog-
raphies, high school students who sell their bodies, and
prostitutes. This film meticulously depicts how capitalism
reproduces ruling party and the opposition even in social
outsiders. The viewers may find its outrageous repetition
and bold description a bit odd, but then again its audacity
and joyousness make this eexcperimental film something
to remember.
Directors’ statement
Capitalism wants accumulation. It absolutely subsumes peo-
ple. Their labour power is nothing but an apparatus to help
capital circulate. The capitalist society where desire does
not produce capital, but capital produces desire, is where
we all live now. Capitalism evolves. It makes variations on a
deceptive method to expand the quality and quantity of
accumulation. Now desire becomes capital, capital becomes
desire – now capitalism relatively subsumes people. The
faster its accumulation gets, the bigger its desire gets.