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This is the only one this round I could vote on and I'm very happy indeed to give my vote to Pather Pachali.
I think if Pather Pachali hits you deeply, it will take it. Those who connect with it do so in deep, rich ways, likely besting the depths of 12 Angry Men. I didn't have that connection with Pather Pachali. (Yet.) I appreciated it and I liked it, and I get how and why others would find such treasures in it, but I have to vote honestly, for 12 Angry Men, which is also loaded with insights and things of importance, and which hit me the way it likely hits everyone who watches it, which universality of appeal may be its only real leg up on Pather Pachali, which I hope to shift on someday.
I do really enjoy 12 Angry Men, but when I rewatched Pather Panchali this past weekend, I wondered, “What more could movies possibly offer?”
12 Angry Men may be the #1 50’s movie on Letterboxd, but Pather Panchali is among the most influential movies of all time.
1. That “I had lots of dreams, too” speech the mother delivers halfway through (0:55) must have been on Gerwig’s mind when she wrote America Ferrera’s speech in Barbie.
2. I do believe the “technology has arrived” pylon reveal (1:14) may have inspired the monolith reveal in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
3. The pond scene after the hopeful letter/before the devastating storm (1:34) may have inspired Malick to say about The Tree of Life, “Let’s completely leave the narrative two-thirds of the way through for a meditation of life in the universe!”
4. Though the motives were slightly different, Apu watching the necklace sink into the swamp (2:02) was clearly a visual reference when Norman Bates nervously watches Marion’s car sink into the swamp.
Though I’ve never noticed these potential inspirations before, Pather Panchali devastates and inspires me every time I watch it. In my personal voting, it makes it all the way to the finish line of this Madness. Unfortunately, my bracket predicts its run is ended here.
Pather Panchali is wonderful, but 12 Angry Men gives me the strength to hope for justice in an unjust world.