Latha's Movie Companion
‘Documentary films’ are a chunk of our real world, playing on screen in a never viewed version. The mundane every day world around us, is cleverly showcased in an angle we possibly wouldn’t have attempted to imagine or visualize.
Documentaries are frozen ‘time-frames’ preserved for our future generations. The makers are painting a new world and let us react to the world around, either by falling in love all over again or by waking up to the follies and try to set them right. Either way, watching documentaries are an enriching experience.
English, Documentary, Netflix, 8.1/10 IMBD, Directed by Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed An intriguing log book, that turns a memoir, when God’s creativity flabbergasts the viewers with the similarities of the intelligent invertebrates to the humans. Life never ceases to teach you- not only the fittest survive but also the smartest. It does seem an extension … Read moreMy Octopus Teacher
2020, Docudrama, English, Netflix, 7.8/10 IMDB, Directed by Jeff Orlowski Social network addiction, decoded using a new lens, that incites silent shock waves and urges the need for weaning off from one’s own addiction however minimal one may manifest it to be. Evils of social media, documented with a parallel drama of a family’s addiction. Even … Read moreThe Social Dilemma
English Documentary, 2013, You Tube, IMDB 9/10, Directed by Shabnam Sukhdev An emotional tale of a daughter’s quest to fill the missing pieces in her relationship with her ‘Padmasri’ awardee father, only to realize he wasn’t the terrible father that her memory recalled and he was trying to influence her life all along without her knowledge. … Read moreThe Last Adieu
2018, Malayalam, Vimeo.com, Documentary, Directed by Jaya Jose Raj A simple documentation of an elderly responsible citizen, to protect her environment in the God’s own country, from the devilish clutches of the pollution mongering industries. The short documentary- Kumudini, which translates, ‘pond of water lilies’, has an apt tag line - ‘A water lily chronicle’. … Read moreKumudini