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Gods Must be crazy part 1 (1980). The funniest film in the 20th century.

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Gods must be crazy is one of the funniest comedy films I have ever watched. It is a classic film; made in the 1980s. Yet, it has a very unique style and I have never seen anything like it, other than the 2nd part of this film. (Gods must be crazy 2). The film is narrated around a native African man, who goes on a journey to find the edge of the world. Everything begins with a glass bottle that was thrown out of an Airplane. A native bushman found it and bring it to his clan. They believe that it is a gift from God as it was dropped down from the sky. Everything changes when this bottle causes damages to the unity of their clan. People began to quarrel over the bottle. The village elders conclude that this bottle is not a gift from God but a curse. They believe that they have to get rid of it by throwing it off the edge of the world. A man set foot on a journey to fulfill that decision. He is also the one who found this bottle. On the way to the edge of the world, the tribe man

Wali Pauru.. A 2019 Sinhala film...

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Wali Pauru is a tragic film, narrated around a story told by an old man who lives in an elder's home. A girl from England visits the elder's home. She talks to residents in the home and collects their life stories. This film based on one of those stories.  This story is tragic because the old man who tells this story loses everything including his house, his wife, his children, and even his pension fund before finally entering into this house. Anyway, this is not the story of all the elders in Sri Lanka; but the number is rising. More and more elders in the country are facing similar problems because they are mistreated by their families. On the other hand, all of them are not as lucky as the old man in the story. Their lives are even more miserable. Some people don't even have elders home to stay. They ended up in the street as beggars or in asylums as mentally unstable patients. Some people have no one to take care of them even if they have enough money to spend.