Review of Funny Boy (2020) by Ammaappa8416 — 11 Dec 2020

Tamil Erasure, in all facets of filmmaking. Not even a well made film as well.

This review of Funny Boy (2020) was written by Ammaappa8416 on 11 Dec 2020.

Funny Boy has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Mufa (1) on 13 Dec 2020

Not an accurate depication of the civil war,butchered language and horrible acting. The also only casted 1 half Tamil in this movie ABOUT tamils…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 03 Dec 2020

The urge to find hope in tragedy is as inevitable as the one to recognize shapes in clouds…

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By Kabilathiagaraj (1) on 13 Dec 2020

I tried to find something that I like in this movie but it was near impossible…

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By Tina Hassannia (118) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Nov 2020

There is so much going on in this film, much of it so rich in detail, that you wonder how better the original material might work as a television…

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By Kanvara (1) on 12 Dec 2020

So disappointing that the director would take a a story that should celebrate the tamil culture, history and language and turned it into a…

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By Serendipia (1) on 13 Dec 2020

A story by and about a Queer Tamil man and the anti-Tamil pogroms, without Tamils and instead the very oppressors…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Dec 2020

Mehta’s elaborate long takes contribute to the general sense of tumult, but the film never fully shakes the sense of stating the obvious…

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By Tracy Brown (16) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Dec 2020

Director Deepa Mehta ambitiously juxtaposes a teenage love story with rising political tensions and ethnic violence in a film that is ultimately…

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By Praveen_ (1) on 13 Dec 2020

Does not represent the Tamil nor the queer community…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for The Guardian (2,969) on 10 Dec 2020

In the end the story is told rather blandly, the edges sentimentally smoothed down…

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