Some times I plan to write something.. and it is inevitably or otherwise been happening around movies... It is good that I say happen around movies, because, I end up talking about myself, what I feel, what I embrace, what I can not embrace, how my money and time went in vane and the like.. !Hence the justification in title itself.. "a Little of me in everything I see" Now the anti-climax for the reader would to tell me if it a little or a lot.. !
So what happens, I saw a movie, LeftRightLeft from Arun Kumar Aravind. I went with mom and dad. And ten minutes into the movie, mom's comment is not at all stoked by the dialogues, the promise of gruesome murders- for the movie is set in the context of Communism. That is precisely where the movie wins! It escapes the communist agenda, the context. It translates into a story of different lives, coming together, embracing illusions, pain, love, apathy, injustice, justice...; in short life. This is where, the apparently communist movie of 2013 wins over its predecessors in 80's. It transcends being only about people being viewed through an idea or the propagation of it.
It is about the continuity of life, of true heroes of the Earth. Most often as the story points, the true heroes are not people who fight, kill, lead agitations and die, ever so easily; true heroes are the people who embrace these changes, believe and stand for what is true, in spite of the risks involved, react because "you lost it" in that moment. Yet the every day reality of having to live, each day a human life, with all its challenges, primarily of survival, then of compassion.
It is a harrowing movie experience. For the dialogues and scenes are filled with passion, strife, and you know there is "no driving into the sunset". In between I did honestly wonder, am I in a frame of mind to take this movie into me, with all its potency, for I consider myself delicate (currently).
Yet, in spite of no promise of eternal happily ever after, it is a movie full of hope in our times. It shows the beauty, the lack of it, the fatal imprints which transforms people for ever- some times for the greater common good, some times trying to reach the same place- but through justifications.
The stance we take, the moves we make, our capacity to forgive, our capacity to destroy, our hope of infallibility and the shattering of the illusion of all of it.
Now since I have gone on some tangent, I need to come back to tell you of the performances. Bharat Gopy is a wonderful breed of an actor whose face lightens up with tenderness, tautens with terseness and some times glints with humor, and engages you - out and through! Of all the performances, the woman who played Indrajith's mother- one needs to stand up and salute the gem of an actor. She stands out, in a movie with all the actors delivering their best performances!
I cannot talk any more.. I need to sit with the movie for some more time.. especially those moments which are lost in translation.. !
To a wonderful movie, cheers
So what happens, I saw a movie, LeftRightLeft from Arun Kumar Aravind. I went with mom and dad. And ten minutes into the movie, mom's comment is not at all stoked by the dialogues, the promise of gruesome murders- for the movie is set in the context of Communism. That is precisely where the movie wins! It escapes the communist agenda, the context. It translates into a story of different lives, coming together, embracing illusions, pain, love, apathy, injustice, justice...; in short life. This is where, the apparently communist movie of 2013 wins over its predecessors in 80's. It transcends being only about people being viewed through an idea or the propagation of it.
It is about the continuity of life, of true heroes of the Earth. Most often as the story points, the true heroes are not people who fight, kill, lead agitations and die, ever so easily; true heroes are the people who embrace these changes, believe and stand for what is true, in spite of the risks involved, react because "you lost it" in that moment. Yet the every day reality of having to live, each day a human life, with all its challenges, primarily of survival, then of compassion.
It is a harrowing movie experience. For the dialogues and scenes are filled with passion, strife, and you know there is "no driving into the sunset". In between I did honestly wonder, am I in a frame of mind to take this movie into me, with all its potency, for I consider myself delicate (currently).
Yet, in spite of no promise of eternal happily ever after, it is a movie full of hope in our times. It shows the beauty, the lack of it, the fatal imprints which transforms people for ever- some times for the greater common good, some times trying to reach the same place- but through justifications.
The stance we take, the moves we make, our capacity to forgive, our capacity to destroy, our hope of infallibility and the shattering of the illusion of all of it.
Now since I have gone on some tangent, I need to come back to tell you of the performances. Bharat Gopy is a wonderful breed of an actor whose face lightens up with tenderness, tautens with terseness and some times glints with humor, and engages you - out and through! Of all the performances, the woman who played Indrajith's mother- one needs to stand up and salute the gem of an actor. She stands out, in a movie with all the actors delivering their best performances!
I cannot talk any more.. I need to sit with the movie for some more time.. especially those moments which are lost in translation.. !
To a wonderful movie, cheers
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