08-05-2018, 05:54 PM
Due to DM's problems with Apple TV (which hangs on anything over 2.5 hours, if I recall) and the demands of his world tour, I've decided to take it upon myself to keep DOOM abreast of the best in Bollywood entertainment.
Which brings us to Toilet, about a woman who marries a man and moves in with the inlaws only to discover that they don't have a toilet. In fact, all the women of the village must gather and trek out of the village in the middle of the night, each carrying a tinkle pot, and do their dirty deed behind the shrubs. "But what if you need to go during the day?" she inquires, only to be told that "you learn to hold it." As for the men, well, they seem to go anywhere and everywhere, with no restrictions.
This has all the standard tropes for this type of movie -- guys out in the middle of the night, with lanterns, for no discernible reason, surprising the women during their toiletry, the whole "did you wash your hands?" routine done like who's on first. There's the hubby taking his new wife to the local train station so she can use the toilet on the train, only the train departs with her. And of course the hubby builds a toilet for his parent's house to placate her, only to have the villagers try to destroy it in the night with farm implements -- which provides the movie's one fight scene, as the hubby wakes in the nick of time and fights them all off faster than a Bruce Lee in a dojo.
And of course there's the ever popular "Sanskrit chant" duel between the hubby and the village elder.
I fast-forwarded through most of this, as the plot moved slower than the Horror Clown's bowel movement while night-texting, and I would not recommend this.
However.
Toilet is hugely successful in India. It stars Akshay Kumar as the hubby in what is considered his best performance. Also, Bill Gates called this movie "one of the six positive things that happened in 2017." It does have a cultural basis, highlighting the Indian government's attempts to upgrade many of the villages throughout India with toilets, but hitting resistance with the villages and their elders who think it will make houses stink and will introduce disease.
So you might want to toss my negative review in the sewer and go to your local cinema to watch this. It is showing everywhere ... maybe.
Which brings us to Toilet, about a woman who marries a man and moves in with the inlaws only to discover that they don't have a toilet. In fact, all the women of the village must gather and trek out of the village in the middle of the night, each carrying a tinkle pot, and do their dirty deed behind the shrubs. "But what if you need to go during the day?" she inquires, only to be told that "you learn to hold it." As for the men, well, they seem to go anywhere and everywhere, with no restrictions.
This has all the standard tropes for this type of movie -- guys out in the middle of the night, with lanterns, for no discernible reason, surprising the women during their toiletry, the whole "did you wash your hands?" routine done like who's on first. There's the hubby taking his new wife to the local train station so she can use the toilet on the train, only the train departs with her. And of course the hubby builds a toilet for his parent's house to placate her, only to have the villagers try to destroy it in the night with farm implements -- which provides the movie's one fight scene, as the hubby wakes in the nick of time and fights them all off faster than a Bruce Lee in a dojo.
And of course there's the ever popular "Sanskrit chant" duel between the hubby and the village elder.
I fast-forwarded through most of this, as the plot moved slower than the Horror Clown's bowel movement while night-texting, and I would not recommend this.
However.
Toilet is hugely successful in India. It stars Akshay Kumar as the hubby in what is considered his best performance. Also, Bill Gates called this movie "one of the six positive things that happened in 2017." It does have a cultural basis, highlighting the Indian government's attempts to upgrade many of the villages throughout India with toilets, but hitting resistance with the villages and their elders who think it will make houses stink and will introduce disease.
So you might want to toss my negative review in the sewer and go to your local cinema to watch this. It is showing everywhere ... maybe.
