Cargo (Hindi), The Old Guard

 Watched the above two movies on Netflix.

Cargo (Hindi)

• This movie deals with rebirth.
• People who die are "taken care" of by people who do not die.
• Like there memory is erased, body is cleared of blemishes and resend back to earth possibly as a baby to continue the cycle of  life.
• In Indian context especially Hindus it will be perfect movie.
• In fact you may be tempted that this is how birth and death and rebirth happen.
• But if you don't believe in rebirth then what.
• But if you believe then you may feel there is no alternative.
• Important thing is that those "caretakers" who do not die are called "Rakshahsas" or "Demons" in the movie.
• They are like "X Men" or people with extraordinary powers each gifted in a unique way.
• And when they come across people whom they have "dealt with" earlier they should retire and that is the system.
• It is well though story, traditional and science fiction merged into one.
• Definitely worth watching once.
• Movie is slow and if it would have released in theaters it would not have gone for more than 1 weekend or a few shows as you may put it.
  

The Old Guard

• This is a very well made movie.
• And unfortunately villains are made to be heroes.
• Why they become villains? Actually they are immortals and they cannot die.
• So when some scientists want to use them as guinea pigs and do experiment on them to benefit "normal human beings", they turn on them and kill several people.
• Now it is debatable whether what they did was right or wrong.
• The thing is if we do not allow science to prosper human beings will suffer collectively.
• Now another person who has been gathering their history believes they have done several things over the past centuries which have benefited human beings "exponentially"
• My belief if they had offered themselves for research humans would have benefited more.
• But what they did.
• They did not want to end their "freedom" and hence fought their way through.
• They are immortals and no one can kill them and they are fighters also.
• They have discovered their "immortality" in the "line of fire" so as to speak i.e. when they are killed while fighting.
• My view if such a thing does happen then it would be more frequent as humans must have fought hundreds of thousands of wars among themselves over the past thousands of years.
  
• But the concept is good and movie is well made.
• They have also shown a person who is dropped to the bottom of the ocean in an iron maiden coffin so the moment she dies she gets back to life and the cycle continues infinitely.
• She is shown in the last scene.
• Now it is to be seen what they show in the sequel.