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How about settling taxes over a cricket match? That's the premise.  Bollywood films are interesting. You can build a stereotype over them with lots of dances or a whole lot more dances. This one's a very long film; around 3 and half hours long. Minus the dances, you could probably fit it into 2 hours. So i'm saying it now, it felt a bit long. The story's well made. At first, I just can't believe the whole base of the story is a settlement of taxes over a cricket match. At some point, that's comical. Now, i don't know if there's ever been a real deal of things over a game. There probably was, but who knows. I just had a thought of that Sandler Film, The Longest Yard. They almost have the same backbone, except in the longest yard, they play football. Back to the story, it's basically one linear progression of events with a long the way a touch of a love story. A captain raises the tax twice. This angers the farmers. They g...

The Rules of the Game (1939 - France) I'm not sure if this was a representation of the people and era it was in. If it were, i'm thinking it could be a set of people only. Like a small group or class. First overall impressions about it, is that it's like a teen movie with an older age group. People running around chasing "love".  It's like a smack of nobility and adolescent impulses. Or maybe people just don't grow up.  To be fair, it was informative. So this is how, people in the that time spent their time. This is how they party. They spend a couple days in someone's "castle"; Hunt for rabbits, quails and dogs; watch a small theater with everyone else as well and chase around their lovers and their lover's lovers. Take away quotes:  " The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons."  The character says this when he is faced with the fact that he has to please two people with conflicting interest...