Toxic movie - spoiler filled thread....- Page 13

Originally posted by: Clochette

Imtiaz Ali used this Rumi words in Rockstar, too. However reading all your posts, I got the feeling that in this movie, the sense is even more intense than in Rockstar.

Of course I know ❤️ I'm a big admirer of Rockstar too. There's something about forbidden love that makes it inexplicably desirable to me lol.

I think those Rumi lines hold true for both Heer-Jordan and Raya-Nadia, but in very different ways.

In Rockstar, the idea is explicit. The entire film is built around Heer and Jordan..their love, separation, longing and destruction. You are constantly aware that this is the heart of the story.

With Toxic, Toxic is much more restrained. Raya and Nadia's love is embedded within a much larger story of crime, family, guilt and psychological destruction even though they are one of the most important part emotionally And the film doesn't spoon-feed their love to you. It leaves little fragments-looks, silences, touches, conversations and expects you to put them together.You have to read it through glances, pauses, fragments of dialogue and the choices they make...

Maybe that's why, for me, the Rumi idea feels even more haunting here.Toxic makes you quietly discover two people who found their own little world in each other and then lost it leaving you with "what ifs" ...

https://x.com/i/status/2093646517248970841

This theory looks bizarre..

Originally posted by: mahiwayyy

https://x.com/i/status/2093646517248970841

This theory looks bizarre..

Haan..... it looks like a fanfiction....which I would love to read one day 😂

But when it comes to movies ...I would like to think , analyse and make theories on the basis of what they have shown on screen lol ..

You know one fun thing....

I remember when Toxic's one of the first promotional material i.e Raya's introduction teaser had dropped..and he made his entry with that "Daddy is home" phrase, I was soo irritated..It appeared ridiculous to me...felt like pure swagger,sounded like pure massy, brainrot marketing..almost meme material..

But after seeing Raya's entire journey, it becomes strangely loaded...He is the father who spent his entire life carrying the guilt of failing his child, finally coming HOME to the memory of him...It's about a father returning to the emotional wreckage he left behind.

Raya entered the film saying, "Daddy is home," as if it's a declaration of arrogant power.

But by the end, when you understand Raya's relationship with Ticket, his guilt, his inability to protect his son, and that desperate longing to undo the past,you realise that in the very end he was finally HOME as a DADDY..not the gangster, not the brother, not the conqueror, just a father finally reunited with his son, even if only in his fractured mind.

The same line goes from swagger to tragedy.

Entire movie is filled with such lines that appear massy and brainrot on surface but gradually you re-discover it through the context of the movie...

Really He entered as Raya announcing his arrival.

He ended as a father finally coming home. 💔