This is a good drama about a Brahman priest who accidentally adopts a baby from outside of his caste and the havoc that raises on him and his community. Eventually the priest realizes that his religion has stupid rules that lead to disharmony in society (about 60 years after Gandhi and 2,400 years after the Buddha). It's a little strange watching this film as an American because we haven't had a formal class system since . . . uh, 1968? Okay, maybe that wasn't that long ago but, still, this movie's probably a lot more socially relevant in it's home country (India, if that wasn't clear). Oh well, I suppose the world can always use another movie about people opening their minds and becoming more tolerant. One of them is bound to do the trick eventually.
This is a Swedish film about a spoiled, rich bitch who gets her comeuppance when she has to take a job at McDonald's. There she befriends a 61-year-old man who's fallen on hard times after his divorce and she almost learns a valuable lesson from him about how being a good, hardworking person is more important than being hot and owning lots of great outfits. Although the ending was disappointing, I can't say that it wasn't true to life.
Shorts programs are always a mixed bag. This one had a bunch of films that revolve around music. Also, a surprising number of them feature breasts. I mean, I know it was in the title and all but I still wasn't really expecting it. One of them started off with some Earth Mother mumbo jumbo and then went on to show artful shots of a naked woman for ten minutes. I think my favorite boobless (55378008?) short was Steve Martin on the Loose. Based on a dream the director had, it features Steve Martin and Mary Steenburgen from Back to the Future Part III attempting to save Steve Martin's twin from drowning. I think.
I think this movie was Thailand's attempt to prove that they can be just as weird as the Japanese. This is a movie about (Ringo, spoiler alert!) a young man who, through a complicated set of circumstances, masturbates on the street causing his sperm to become mutated by exposure to some aliens' malfunctioning ray gun. These mutated sperm grow to giant size (for sperm that's about golf-ball size) and impregnate women on their own. The next day, about four hundred women wake up in the final stage of pregnancy and give birth to babies that have the lead actor's face. I can't express how disturbing that visual is. By the next day the babies are now toddler sized (still with full-grown, matching heads) and unbelievably horny. Apparently, they live only long enough to masturbate, at which point they shrivel up leaving behind only a dried up bag of skin. I can't express to you how much classier this film is than Bad Biology.
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