Kooki

BVFF 2023 | "For all that it strives to do, Kooki is bent on not taking stepsbeyond the questions it poses on the need for an alternate justice. It becomes a reminder of a question that must be asked every day, but its refusal to find answers only leads you back to a hopeless reality, one in which many victims don’t even get the ‘justice’ that Kooki says isn’t enough. Even what it says to the victims suffering from PTSD gets lost in its urgency to deliver its final say. It doesn’t help that the film lacks a flow; scenes sometimes appear as chunks strung together linearly and it is bound to tire out a first-time audience waiting for it to become anything more." "Yes, Kooki could have been more, but we must also ask ourselves: If there are no answers to the question, isn’t the question more worthy of being asked time and again? Isn’t the existence of the question vile enough to prevent humans from turning into beasts? Isn’t the question enough? 'Why isn’t rape the most heinous crime?'" Here's my full review: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/bvff-2023-kooki-movie-review-a-heart-aching-wail-that-refuses-to-be-anything-more/article67643443.ece