Rants and Deep Talks: "The Lunchbox"

This is NOT a review of The Lunchbox(2012) by Riteish Batra.

This is simply how I feel about it on a daily basis, bear with an amateur cinephile.

Spoiler alert.

Lunchbox is special to me because it is really the most artistically superior movie I have ever loved. .......do u know the concept of "subtle" filmmaking. If not you must have seen it....those movies where it feels like the director just picked up the camera and told the actors to move. One where the director put no thought in it. Where even the sound is just unbearable. Where the "subtle" was an after thought of their horrid imagination that resulted in a piece of shit movie.

The Lunchbox is everything those movies aren't and dream to be. The so called, "subtle" and "simple" filmmaking that is defined by this movie, if I say so myself

(AGAIN KEYWORD- AMATEUR)

The kind of filmmaking that doesn't depend on fantastical worlds, futures far ahead from our own that when we reach to, might be completely different from our imagination. (Having nothing against those movies, huge Harry Potter fan here)

This movie doesn't just capture the mundanity of the world, it shows it off. It doesn't set it's characters as marvelous human beings stuck in that bland world...NO...it shows them as that one shade of white among a 1000. One that we'd never catch unless pointed out to us.

It shows us connections through songs, simple words and even our ceiling fans and how they connect us over miles.

When you think about it, the characters could've been two different people, their mundanities different, their reasons to be tired of that mundanity different....will the story would be any different.

Will they not fall in love again, if they started sending those letters.

Maybe through different words, different thoughts, different recipes.

But wouldn't they? At least I hope.

A single mistake, not even a giant premise that resulted in a story between two people you'd have ignored as they are often ignored on in their worlds.

This movie to me proves that you can write stories about the simplest of ideas and think that this will not appear to the masses but it will..... because my 12 year old brother enjoyed this movie, my uneducated maid cried at its end.

This movie is everything a film deserves to be.