Yeah, The Boys
Yeah,
The Boys is a short
story film about a few boys dancing while partying. In my opinion it’s a very
weird movie which doesn’t have much to say. In the beginning of the film, they show
a couple together inside a car and suddenly a group boys come and take the boy with
them and the boy goes, leaving his girlfriend in the car. In the next scene the
guy is drinking and having fun with the group and taking a moment the guy
starts texting his girlfriend and then the guys take the phone away starts
doing their weird, annoying dance and all the other guys joins him and the guy joins
as well. I don’t exactly understand what is going on in the film as it is very
random. In the whole movie they are dancing. In the end moment the guy was
sleeping on the ground outside and the rest, drunk and also probably sleeping
or with a tired body, were trying to pick the guy from the ground and take him
inside or at least in the chair started sleep dancing like possessed humans. I
don’t know what the film is trying to say to the viewers, but I can only say
one thing, and that is this is a story of a gang of boys or more like close
friends having fun.
A lien
This movie
shows about the situation in America with all the immigrants. We see in the
beginning that there is a small family with the mother being American and the
father being a person whose family shifted to America decades ago, are now trying
to get their daughter a green card which is a Permanent Resident Card, making her
a citizen of America, but during the process the man and his daughter gets
caught by the police claiming him to be an immigrant. The mother rushes to them
and tries to save the daughter as the man doesn’t have an American passport
yet. After arguing a lot, she is able to save the daughter. This short film
shows how difficult it is for an immigrant to gain citizenship in America. The
man who has been in America since his young childhood days, can only call America
his homeland even though his parents or grandparents migrated from a different
place. This shows the difficulty of immigrants having nowhere to stay or
peacefully call a place home. The place they genetically belong to is unknown
to them as they have never been there and the place they grew up in is trying to
push them out of the land calling them outsiders even though that is the only place
they are familiar with and have memories and emotions connected to the place.
This short story shows the difficulty of the immigrants who doesn’t even know
about their origin, they are just grown in a place their parents shifted to.
The Holy Spirit
This short
story shows about patriarchy and gender roles. This shows about society wanting
girls to act like girls and boys act like boys. In this film there is a young
girl who is about to enter her puberty. As she didn't get her periods, which is
most likely she was going to get it a bit late than the other girls (while this
is completely normal) the rest of the family thinks she is sick and decides to
take her to a pujari or priest. While the girl who chooses to act like a boy is
frustrated after finding out the real reason they came to their uncle's house.
She refuses to dress like a girl which is required for the ritual they are
going to do. This story totally shows the reality of an Indian society where girls are expected to act like "girls" and be decent while men can
act whatever way they want. In the scene where they were about to start their
journey to the temple and the aunt gives the girl a doll saying after the
ritual she will start looking pretty just like the doll with long hair and
wrapped in saree, this scene shows how Indian society sees girls, it requires
the girls to be feminine, gentle, kind, wearing cloths meant for females like
sarees and churidars and having long hair, which is totally irrelevant. While
on the way the girl really needed to use the washroom and the mother denied her
telling her to wait till, they reach the destination as there were no toilets
on the way. As she keeps insisting on doing it in the open, her cousin brother
keeps annoying her, which makes her mad and she starts beating him. The mother
stops the girl and scolds the boy not to annoy her and the uncle scolds the
mother, instead of teaching manners to his boy, telling her brothers annoy the
sisters it's normal thing, and tells her to stop her daughter. After this he
gets out of the car and pisses out in the open, which is REALLY annoying, as a
girl or woman is not supposed to do it in the open but a so called
"man" can do it. After reaching the place the priest started explaining
all the illogical thing they can think of like how she’s possessed by an old man
from ages ago and they will remove the man’s soul and she will become normal. So,
a girl getting her period late is being sick but the society speaking of all
the illogical stuff is normal. Also, during the ritual, the priest, tells the
girl to take her ancestor’s blessing which is a clay balls with odd face drawn
in it; it is an insult to the ancestors with such a weirdly made doll/sculpture
representing them. And after the ritual they wait for crows to eat the food
they offered and in the end moment she got her periods in the car during their
return journey and she gets so annoyed by all their stupidity she rushes out and
pisses in the open, showing revolutionary behavior
