Review: ‘Guilty’ will make you question your claim to ‘feminism’
Produced by Karan Johar, this call to #MeToo isn’t your everyday cup of guilt-tea
KARACHI:
Produced by Karan Johar and directed by Ruchi Narain, Guilty will make you feel guilty for many things, with the most disturbing being your own conditioning. If you consider yourself ‘woke’ and a ‘feminist’ then this film is bound to test your patience by making you the judge of an indecipherable situation – a rape case.
Kiara Advani, who plays Nanki, the lead role in the film, also navigates through the various instances of a single story in her head – as her memory deceives her. She does this to find out what really happened after her high school boyfriend (Vijay) gets accused of rape by a girl she knows had a crush on him.
The Netflix original brings into play the war between two women over a man, which is later turned into a war because of a man – but a war, nonetheless. It shows one woman being deemed a psycho for her emotional ‘fragility’ while the other is slut-shammed for wanting to sleep with someone’s boyfriend all along.
There are several subtle references in the film that seem to dictate the ways in which these characters behave. For instance, a scene showing the school’s dean – who is also Nanki’s legal guardian – taking a class, reiterates the Foucauldian power dynamics in the context of feminist literature.
Tanu’s power comes from the movement which goes on to become her sole claim to fame, which is what the ‘woke’ individuals of the college also end up questioning. “Is she misusing #MeToo?” many asked while others noticed how her social media hiked, with every single post getting so viral the authorities even felt threatened. But does she misuse it? She has all the reasons too. And it is because of all the reason provided in the film that leads us to really question: Who is guilty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQ85MrpOPI
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Produced by Karan Johar and directed by Ruchi Narain, Guilty will make you feel guilty for many things, with the most disturbing being your own conditioning. If you consider yourself ‘woke’ and a ‘feminist’ then this film is bound to test your patience by making you the judge of an indecipherable situation – a rape case.
Kiara Advani, who plays Nanki, the lead role in the film, also navigates through the various instances of a single story in her head – as her memory deceives her. She does this to find out what really happened after her high school boyfriend (Vijay) gets accused of rape by a girl she knows had a crush on him.
The Netflix original brings into play the war between two women over a man, which is later turned into a war because of a man – but a war, nonetheless. It shows one woman being deemed a psycho for her emotional ‘fragility’ while the other is slut-shammed for wanting to sleep with someone’s boyfriend all along.
There are several subtle references in the film that seem to dictate the ways in which these characters behave. For instance, a scene showing the school’s dean – who is also Nanki’s legal guardian – taking a class, reiterates the Foucauldian power dynamics in the context of feminist literature.
Tanu’s power comes from the movement which goes on to become her sole claim to fame, which is what the ‘woke’ individuals of the college also end up questioning. “Is she misusing #MeToo?” many asked while others noticed how her social media hiked, with every single post getting so viral the authorities even felt threatened. But does she misuse it? She has all the reasons too. And it is because of all the reason provided in the film that leads us to really question: Who is guilty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQ85MrpOPI
Have something to add to the story? Share it in the comments below.