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Hundred Thirty-One Pecks on the Cheek, Plus Some Hugs. Peck on the Cheek, as such, is mistitled. The contrast between comedy and drama is effective, but it doesn't quite work the film can't settle on one style or the other. As the story progresses, the tone grows more solemn and dramatic, refusing to glamorize the terror of war. Still, the introduction remains as a solemn reminder that there are things happening outside this children's story, and unlike Ferris Bueller, Amudha will eventually have to engage with this.ĭiscovering she is adopted, Amudha's innocence begins to crumble, and does so further when she and her adoptive parents travel with her to search for her mother in war-torn Sri Lanka. After an opening, introducing a pair of star-crossed lovers (her real parents) in a war-zone, we slip entirely into Amudha's world, which has all the cheesiness and extravagance of a Disney cartoon. Everything is about Amudha she's the heroine and she knows it.īut the film isn't really about Amudha (or it shouldn't be) it's much bigger than her blissful childhood. A Peck on the Cheek is difficult to review, just because it's so far outside my preferences and familiarity, but though my standards of measure may be Western, I have no others, and they are what I use.Īmudha is a precocious, petite, Sri Lankan version of Ferris Bueller, from hating her teacher, to delivering an introductory, breaking-the-fourth-wall monologue and being the center of a huge musical number. Does this mean I can’t appreciate Russian or Indian films? No (for instance, I quite liked Kin-Dza-Dza!) but makes it harder. Indian films, on the other hand, indulge so deeply in sentimentality that I find it next to impossible to attach any real value to their emotion. I have enough of an American need for emotionalism to feel like Russian characters are more like walking, talking existential crises than actual human beings. To some extent this is impossible, though it's much easier with European films than Asian ones. When I approach foreign films, I always try my best to shelve cultural criticisms and accept it on its own terms.
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