Perpendicular gangs of wasseypur
It doesn't even matter since both complement each other so well. I don't know whether part 1 or part 2 is the superior one. Whereas inevitability works narratively to put us in suspense of what we dread, while thematically reinforcing the idea that people who choose the way of the gun cannot escape their doomed fate. Predictability is a failure on the storyteller's part to create meaningful payoffs we already see coming a mile away, thereby wasting our time. What you don't know is how, when and where the axe will drop. Faizal, Ramadhir, Sultan, Danish, Definite (second favourite character of mine), Perpendicular and Tangent (I wanted more of these two lol), even the matriarchs and women like Durga (who is so overlooked by the men around her yet she sets in motion key plot points), you know it's just not going to end well for all these characters. I have always held that there is a difference between predictability and inevitability.
PERPENDICULAR GANGS OF WASSEYPUR MOVIE
It's not a lesser movie like Suicide Squad that uses obvious music to fill time without really adding to the story as a whole! The traditional Indian folk gives the effect of a Classical Greek drama where the singers describe and comment upon the main action of the play with song or recitation. Music is also used ironically in Gangs of Wasseypur, to convey tension sadness or levity. Scorsese connects his scenes with ironic yet rhythmic music to keep the audience's attention (if you ever wondered how he can make 3 hour movies feel like half the runtime without you getting bored, that's how). Martin Scorsese once said he sees everything through music that he sees juxtaposition of the type of music to the images he sees. Soundtrack has the ability to tell us more about the world we're watching, thereby making it more tangible and rooted in a certain reality. Seriously, how often do we get a weed smoking mafioso! Keep blazin' it up, Faizal! So much has happened at this point that you would be forgiven for forgetting that Faizal never even wanted this life. In one darkly hilarious moment, Faizal politely asks a civilian at gunpoint to prove to his woman that he is not ageing - he intimidates the civilian so much that the latter quivers and ends up wishing him a happy birthday like he was young that very moment. To describe his arc, it would be like going from Fredo to Michael to Sonny Corleone. I love how it is set up for Faizal to be the black sheep of the family, only to flip that expectation on its head. Gangs of Wasseypur might just be one of if not the best duology I've seen! How many great duologies are out there? There's Paddington, Kill Bill of course, there's Stuart Little, Del Toro's Hellboy, my personal guilty pleasures are Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider, cinephiles may throw in Blade Runner (I respect those movies even though I'm not the biggest advocate), I'll even throw in Trainspotting ( T2's only crime is that it came 2 decades late despite being able to stand on its own).