Paradise

Contains some interesting ideas, especially with how the it treats the Ramayanam, and has a neat setting (Upland Sri Lanka during the 2022 political-economic crisis) However, the way it hits you over the head with the Ramayanam references throughout (no subtlety at all) and still fails to stick the landing is a bummer. The dialogue writing is clunky in places, particular some of the couple's lines in the first half