Another Thing About Monkey Man That's Not Really Important To The Story Itself But Is Simply A Testament

Another thing about Monkey Man that's not really important to the story itself but is simply a testament to Dev Patel as a director is the fact that the entire movie was shot on a budget of $10mil, which sounds like a lot but is a pittance in hollywood for the sort of film he was trying to make.

It's frankly a wonder the film got made considering the fact that netflix dropped it in fear of repercussions from Modi's government but ten years ago John Wick came out as a film with half the artistic ambition and allegedly three times the budget. Monkey Man was so strapped for cash that they had to shoot some scenes of GoPros and iPhones but you wouldn't be able to tell just looking at it.

the world of wildlife 🐺 wild, ferocious

i love playing with dogs on the ground and play bowing and actually feeling like im one of them

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Something I appreciate about Monkey Man is how doesn't try to frame revenge as just a pointlessly violent, self-destructive pursuit the way many films do. I think it's because Dev Patel was unafraid of adding a political element to the story. The kid wants to avenge his mother, but he also doesn't want what happened to them to keep happening to others. The presence of the hijras really drives this idea home. They fight with him not only because he's their friend, but because Baba and the nationalist party will bring violence literally to their door even if they don't fight back. I often roll my eyes at anti-revenge narratives. I think Dev Patel gets what it's like to be a victim of systematic violence in a way most filmmakers seem not to. Revenge isn't just a selfish pursuit that perpetuates the ~cycle of violence~, it can also be a desperate desire for the violence to end.

I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.