2023-08-01 16:04:00
Bad taste
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The Indian film available on Amazon Prime provokes an outcry for its trivialization of the camps and Hitler once morest the backdrop of a romantic trip to Europe.
Bawaal looks like a romantic comedy like Bollywood produces dozens of every year. Ajay, a poor, ignorant and narcissistic history teacher, is married to a charming but epileptic woman. Illness ruins their marriage, until they go on a trip to Europe. But not anywhere: under the pretext of historical research, the spouses in search of a second wind will explore the traces of Nazi Germany, from Berlin to the concentration camps. Arrived in the former capital of the Third Reich, the buxom Nisha, played by Janhvi Kapoor, nonchalantly compares her daily whims to Hitler’s bloody dictatorship, launching “We all have a Hitler in us”. The festival of bad taste continues, as director Nitesh Tiwari, famous for his film Dangal (2016), then begins to surf on the drama of the Holocaust to capture his audience in a nauseating melodrama. A survivor of Auschwitz, who lost his wife in the camps, thus strangely confides to the couple that “every relationship goes through their Auschwitz”, so that the young Nisha can repeat these words and appropriate them, next to a husband who seems to have suddenly seen the light. The apotheosis comes when the couple visits the Auschwitz camp: in an indecent faux-realism, the director then switches the image to black and white, places the two characters in the camp’s showers, surrounded by a crowd of prisoners. skeletons in clothes
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