The Chess Players1977

watched this as part of a linguistic study assignment, and i’m grateful it led me here. the film is a masterclass in restraint. formally elegant, linguistically rich, and politically astute. ray dissects colonialism not through grand gestures, but through silence, indulgence, and quiet decay. a slow unraveling of a society too absorbed in its own rituals to see the empire closing in. every word, every pause, feels deliberate.