Joyland ( A book to Pakistan's hidden soul )

A description of how beauty resembles imperfection can be seen embedded in the deep roots of the movie. The movie was beautiful, lovely, and full of aesthetics. I started this movie randomly when I watched a post on Instagram about how a guy sat beside a girl just because she doesn't belong in the women's section.  Changing identities is one thing that has been the biggest suffering midst the raising times. Joyland becomes the essence of Pakistan's hidden veil in which the third gender is living somewhere. The movie unveils a lot of things and it covers a lot of hidden underlined topics that might be lingering over the country's head but lack of education and awareness might be sources of them ignoring those. Women's representation has been backward for centuries and it might take years to bring women to a point where they can take big major decisions which becomes one of the major backdrops of the movie. The movie does indicate how beautiful it is to have the confidence that is one of the necessary pillars even though you belong to any gender for creating a gender-neutral humane identity for your own self in front of the world. 

Joyland simply reminds me of the times I never really want to remember. The movie is based in urban middle-class Pakistan where it opens its pages and shows the world how beautiful and drastically it has been curated by its people. The film has strong characters but somehow while moving along the flow it forgets the major points upon which the movie was solely based and it runs here and there like a lost child.

Now, coming from a place where making something like this is tough and one has to go through a lot of barriers to curating this and it apart from the fact that it has been banned completely for that place, I guess curating this was a huge achievement. Joyland smirks while hiding in the shadows as it is showing you how existing taboos are pathetic yet we still have them in our societies. While watching Joyland gave me the essence of how Art has been pursued while making the movie yet it still needs more polish. Joyland tries to touch a lot of issues but the silver lining is it is a good film that tries to touch so many issues. The actors and people working in it realize that there are so many issues that need to be touched and with their work they are willing to show the beauty of those sentiments. It touches on mental health, patriarchy, womanhood, inter-family issues,  perceptions of the LGBTQ community, and extramarital affairs.  

While more and more possibilities were there to end the story in a more strong manner but again one can't give criticism to something which is too rare to find. Somewhere or the other portraying a weak character is such a strong sentiment that I genuinely ended up having a weird sensation towards the lead male actor which ended up being his best job. The male lead character wasn't able to make me feel much apart from the ambiguity he was feeling throughout the film.  I guess he did such a fantastic job because that's what he was supposed to do. Other characters also did a marvelous beautiful intrinsic job which really made me curious about their own different projects. Pakistan being a country that is quite enthusiastic about banning good, raw artistic material, I do hope the country fights the urge of banning good art material and lets people watch the realness that gets reflected through the movie's lenses.  

 Somewhere or the other the movie ended and it left me with a weird sense yet with a lot of thoughts that one needs to sit together with. The movie is going to get released in India on 10th March which might be a good day to watch this film.


Thank you,  these are my own thoughts...