“It's getting started that's the puzzle. No way for a poor man to start.”

Filmmaking at its tranquil best. Power of the film is in the tiny detailing, the depth of the friendship between the two lead characters, serene background music and top notch framings. Not for a second it feels like hurried. Pacing is so consistent overall. Everything happens so organically that it totally sucked me into Figowitz and Lu’s friendship and their struggles. Predictability in the story seems imminent right from the beginning (Might be its only weakness if we see it like that) but this is no suspense drama. It’s a charming story of two people who meet in a distraught Situation and later takes on oily cake business but there’s a catch. There’s no milk and they had to steal it from the only cow that is there in that particular territory, which is for the English chief. How phenomenally it’s shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio and slight ancient-ish tint which makes it so authentically 1800s. It can also be seen as a take on entrepreneurship in that era that was started by stealing. This may not be inspiring for today’s times but for that era where people suffered from colonialism, this seems the only option for them. Some of the dialogues really caught me -  “We have to take what we can when the taking is good”  “It's getting started that's the puzzle. No way for a poor man to start”