Everything wrong with "YOU" The netflix show

I am an Indian who perhaps is accustomed to the notion of stalking is love from childhood through movies and shows. Now as an adult who is educated, i criticise such "expressions of love" severely.Stalking is I consider one of the strong symptoon of patriarchy where the man treat the woman like an object, does not understand the word no.

"You" is however is on another level of creepiness. To say i was flabbergasted when i watched certain  scenes in understatement, but hey i was flabbergasted more when i saw people defending Joe character. Honestly it is technically a good show. the idea is to perhaps show from different point of view, like Ravana's POV or Pontuis Pilate's. The show not only explores the psyche of Joe but also viewers. But here is the problem, in the time where women are still stuggling against rape culture and sexism, shows like "YOU" certainly conditions people to believe in such extreme obsessive form of acts as love.  Showing the humane side of a stalker, murderer and a sociopath and showing his childhood problems would not or infact should not justify his other repulsive actions. The problem with the show is perhaps the audiences, people unfortunately are not ready for it. There are still delusional idiots(mostly teenagers) who are afftected and think it's romantic to kill  someone, it's romantic to not only stalk rather manipulate Beck's life.  I read certain comments where someone said the she was rooting for Joe from the start, which infact is scary and sick.  For a society where stalking is still considered as romantic, where freaks like Chritian Grey is gloried, You is more harmful than entertaining for us.

Andhadhun Review

Spoiler Alert

The movie that compelled me to write a review in recent times is Andhadhun!  It is a story about a blind man who is stuck in a web of problems, the director Sriram intertwines all the lives of people and even the rabbit in this web! the strength of this movie lies not in the story rather storytelling. the movie begins in an oral storytelling format, ends with Akash narrating the missing part of the final piece that in a way solves the puzzles but also makes the audiences question authenticity in whole the story itself ( if you don't know what I mean, you have to watch it). Ayushman and Tabu marveled at their performances. second half disgusted me with the fact that how selfish is the world, that they would even take advantage of a blind man,  when each of those selfish characters ended; whether it is inspector in elevator or others, it gave me satisfaction that there was what we literature students call divine justice, but later part made me wonder if all those stories including Simmi's  were what Akash  imagined or deliberately constructed them to be! Finally, in the end, Akash is blind or not, that question lingers in many minds.. to end, the movie throughout kept audiences on their toes and surprised them with frequency. 8.5/10 for sure.

TouchMeNot

often the sensitivity to the world is the strength within, 
to the world, the plant is living in solace
 yet there she knows she was living in allure,
the power lies in her imagination that no one can touch,
touch me not, says she, for she knows that she will be called insane the moment she is touched.
the power is often in the retreat!

                                                           ~ Deepthi