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Sorry but, this movie is a real stinker..


Yes, there is a certain craziness about this film. Not so much a 'Passage', but more of a side entrance 'to India'... Aziz appears to be an Indian actor playing a weird caricature of an Indian. Was it just too hot for everyone, were they all after an Oscar or the likes? Aziz was ridiculous, as an Indian, a doctor and a person... seriously, I found him particularly annoying, unbelievable and unlikable. What was going on with the old lady? Ok, India is a bit of a shocker for her, well everyone, but it seems to me she's borderline hysterical most of the time, the heat was getting to her, no, really, it was. Alec Guiness... an Indian professor/mystic/whatever.. just hilarious. It was actually funny watching him.. what a cringing performance, what a lame excuse at the crossing when he missed the train as it passed him by at barely walking pace, he was wasted in his role. Judy Davis was convincing and played her role as someone who was uncomfortable with the whole Indian mistreatment thing but, this woman is in touch with her senses so are we to think she flips out because she is touched up in an echo-ee old cave by an emotional child man.... Her reaction is only believable if she convinced herself the cave was full of monkeys. I had to turn this drivel off.

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i worked with indians, aziz was really indian, who said that the film maker wanted him to be likable, or even the cold englishmen and women who were typical british. you judge a movie by your stupid assumptions. you feel like aziz, maybe you are a aziz after all, and you were ashamed of seeing yourself in the mirror.

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