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Drishyam (2015)
This Genre is about to extent from Hindi Cinema and here comes a gem.
This genre is about to extinct from Hindi Cinema and here comes a gem, we barely get to watch 5 movies/year of this genre and its one of the best since Ugly. I highly recommend it to all the good cinema lovers(here by good I mean those who have not seen Baahubali & Bajrangi Bhaiijaan and have no such itch to watch them). Ajay Devgn at its best what I say after Omkara and Nishikant Kamat getting mature after Mumbai Meri Jaan, Lai Bhaari. And Tabu needs no explanation, Rajat Kapoor made his presence felt with such less screen time as well. I just hope that I don't find any such movie from which plot is lifted without crediting original which sometimes I found with some terrific Hindi films but now they are no more terrific for me.
Only God Forgives (2013)
Not for everyone.
This worked for me, but I can understand that many others find it tedious. There is a lot of ambiguity, mostly having to do with the mysterious motivations behind Gosling's character. He has the same elation on his face as in Drive, but more perverted and strange this time. Apart from this there are a few abstract/absurd elements in the story: for instance, certain characters meet each other in paradoxical and inexplicable ways. But to me this was more a matter of deliberate ambiguity and mystery than messiness. The film is also extremely violent. Not constantly, more like a series of intense hits after long silences. This is not primarily used to entertain or bludgeon the viewer, but more to convey the moral conflict going on in Gosling's character. And the final scene may have felt completely weird and ridiculous to many people (I heard much laughter in disbelief), but to me it made perfect sense, albeit in an absurd way, because it seemed to be the only resolution to the conflict going on in his mind. The song at the end just felt like the perfect continuation of the beautiful absurdity just before it.