LSD 2 Movie Review | Review of the movie LSD 2 directed by Dibakakar Banerjee dgtl

Artificial intelligence has arrived so we will no longer have jobs, such discussions are going on these days. A phrase that has almost become a proverb in Halfil. Since the advent of Facebook and WhatsApp, our communication language has changed a long time. We couldn’t have imagined that the digital media would be booming after the pandemic. YouTubers, content creators, bloggers, vloggers, memes, reels, followers—these terms were unfamiliar even a few years ago. And today, instead of movies, theaters, novels, we are happy only to see our own face on social media, counting how many followers we have all day long. The situation is such that a YouTuber was arrested a few days ago for saying something stupid about politics.

While watching Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘LSD 2’ (Love Sex Our Dhoka 2), I remembered these words again and again. Fourteen years ago, I saw Divakar’s film ‘LSD’ (Love Sex Aur Dhoka). At that time digital technology had just arrived. Diwakar used that technology to satirize the Bollywood story of arranged love, remember. Took off the mask and wig of the so-called Hindi film. He remembered Gandhar. Around the same time, Anurag Kashyap and Q similarly put the Indian film scene on the global map by using the digital medium in various ways.

Fourteen years later, in the hot summer, Divakar’s ‘LSD 2’ was once again shocked. A little while ago I talked about the technical changes in the media of the last fourteen years, almost all of them have been captured by Divakar in this film. Divided into three parts, the film combines the words ‘like’ with ‘love’, ‘share’ with ‘sex’ and ‘cheat’ with download. Our awareness of gender has also increased in the past fourteen years. Therefore, the presence of people of different genders is evident in the stories of Diwakar’s film. In some places they are victims, in others they are being used heavily like consumer goods in reality shows.

This film starts with the story of reality show. As if I entered the cinema hall to watch that reality show, this is how the movie starts. Each frame shows contestants’ voting options, along with pop-ups of various items. A thousand windows open simultaneously, all waiting for just one click. From facing the truth on a reality show to having sex with your boyfriend in front of a world-wide audience or slapping your mother or dancing to your mother’s obscene songs or secretly private mother’s ganja – nothing is private. In an endless competition, A Hen reality show, the stove finally explodes when competition judge Anu Malik is forced to reveal that he is protesting against slapping his mother in public. At this one moment the film stops short of honesty. But after that, it seems that even this honesty is not serious, because a WhatsApp call from the producer of the reality show is flashed across the screen, where he says that the game is getting out of hand. So either way the game has to rotate. Only then will the game be played. Thousands of vloggers started making vlogs on YouTube saying that.

Messenger, WhatsApp calls, etc. are used by Diwakar throughout the film, using all the means of communication today. In the last story, he took us to the metaverse for a while. I don’t recall seeing this level of use of today’s technology in any film before. I am so surprised to see this use of new media after the movie, I am shocked, it seems new, very new. But after that, the darkness of thought covered the face. What future are we going to? In the Swastika Mukhopadhyay-starrer story, the way a poor worker of the opposite sex working in a big company is attacked and then the way the corporates cover up the incident to wipe their name, it seems that how many helpless poor people die like this every day behind the apparent corporate glitter of the country. Have to go without trial! When the worker disconnects all the electricity in the office in anger, it seems that the anger is actually ours too. We can’t reveal it, but the poor man showed it!

This darkness is intensified in the last story. A young YouTuber doesn’t hesitate to show his sexual moments to become popular. At this time affected by the disease called ‘viewer’ or ‘follower’. So he doesn’t care about his school, his parents, his middle-class mentality home, to raise viewers. Being sexually different from the rest since childhood, the accumulated anger in his mind is revealed when he exposes himself one day in front of the world. After that, in various blogs and vlogs, the subscribers discussed about him in window after window. At the end of the film, the boy looks at everyone with his Metaverse glasses on. Trollers keep on trolling. After that the boy disappeared. But he can be found in avatar form in the metaverse. While talking to the avatar of the news anchor there, he says that he will change all the helpless people this time, who have been abused since childhood in various ways. This is how he gradually became Superman. The cruelty of the fairy tale unfolds.

At the end of this film, Diwakar became the cry of time. scream helpless cry Jesus had nails in his hand. Smartphones in our hands. Multiverse glasses on the eyes. Everyone has thousands of followers. We have no escape.