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Vikram Vedha
விக்ரம் வேதா
2017 · Film · 147 min
Directed by Pushkar, Gayathri
A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
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Given the number of movies made and regions, and decades, I’d run out of breath. But I’d start here.
Malayalam Films : Known for their subtlety and craft in film making, and obsession with crime novels. Dhrishyam part 1 & 2 are like no movies I’ve seen in Hollywood.
Hindi Films: Or Bollywood movies, known for their big stars, great attention to set pieces of grand dance sequence s and decent romantic comedies / sports movies. Hard to pick one as nothing has shined recently. I’d give “Zindagi Na milega dubara” / “Chak dhe” a look. Again nothing spectacular recently unless you want to watch a classic from the seventies “Sholay”
Tamil movies : Gritty movies about inner city gangs / social upheaval or focus on stellar music/dance romantic comedies and major action blockbusters. From recent years I’d give “Vada Chennai”, or “Vikram Vedha” a chance for gritty urban movies. Or just the most recent action blockbuster “Vikram”. Which has a really good score.
Telugu movies (the original language for RRR) : I’d give “Pushpa” a look before watching CGI drenched RRR.
Ah the free software religion, or as I have taken to call it, GNU minus rationale.
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> One reason is that free software gets the whole community involved in working together to fix problems. Users not only report bugs
This works only for popular open source software, and still doesn't apply to infamous Unix mail servers or likes of GNOME. The 'community' is often more interested in adding features than fixing bugs.
> so never use a service where in principle a program would do.
Comfort vs Freedom tradeoff. Sometimes data privacy / freedom isn't just that critical to justify costs and difficulties of self hosting.
> Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). For our freedom's sake, we have to reject that too.
For what it is worth, SaaS has only benefited freedom of people working in big corporates. It has loosened the grip of enterprise software directly sold to C-suites by wine-and-dine sales methods.
And know what, software writers have to make good amount of money too. Just giving away free desktop / server software doesn't work out for most developers. I will happily accept if an open core software has a value added SaaS. And "live cheap and write freedom respecting software for some semi-arbitrary definition of freedom", is just disrespectful to talented software developers.
> someone has the power to silently impose changes in how the user's computing gets done.
Again a convinience and security etc.. thing. Most use cases, you don't care.
Stallman sees everything as black or white. (Linus Torvalds has also written on this)
I'd suggest Stallman once watch 2017 Tamil movie "Vikram Vedha" :-)