12-17-2022, 09:43 PM
Not your typical Tamil film. It’s a one-er. The whole film is a one-er. Note that it’s shorter than most Indian films and there are plenty of stitch shots, but it is impressive on a technical level. What’s more, it’s nonlinear, which adds an extra dimension to the one-er.
The protagonist is a boss and sets out at the beginning armed with a pistol to kill someone. As he goes, he records his life story to his phone making him the narrator. He walks from scene to seen, with other actors portraying his younger selves, and it switches from day to night and in different locations as he serves as his modern narrating self serves as the thread to connect it all. Wiki says there were 50 sets built across 150 acres and what a labyrinth that must have been. The orchestration of it all is mind boggling.
It’s a brutal tale. The narrator begins life suckling his mom’s bosom after his dad murdered her for cheating. As a baby he gets taken in by some neighbors who abuse him when he reaches boyhood once their own child is born, so he runs away only to be raped by a cop, after which he is taken in by a tranny ganga dealer. And that’s just the start.
It’s a depressing downward spiral, not fun or colorful, but it does manage a surprisingly complicated dance number and some dazzling scenes of a corrupt ashram. The cinematography is what kept me engaged - a constant game of pondering how they got the sequence of shots that they got.
Not D00M recommended unless you’re into one-ers - if you are, then this is a must see.
The protagonist is a boss and sets out at the beginning armed with a pistol to kill someone. As he goes, he records his life story to his phone making him the narrator. He walks from scene to seen, with other actors portraying his younger selves, and it switches from day to night and in different locations as he serves as his modern narrating self serves as the thread to connect it all. Wiki says there were 50 sets built across 150 acres and what a labyrinth that must have been. The orchestration of it all is mind boggling.
It’s a brutal tale. The narrator begins life suckling his mom’s bosom after his dad murdered her for cheating. As a baby he gets taken in by some neighbors who abuse him when he reaches boyhood once their own child is born, so he runs away only to be raped by a cop, after which he is taken in by a tranny ganga dealer. And that’s just the start.
It’s a depressing downward spiral, not fun or colorful, but it does manage a surprisingly complicated dance number and some dazzling scenes of a corrupt ashram. The cinematography is what kept me engaged - a constant game of pondering how they got the sequence of shots that they got.
Not D00M recommended unless you’re into one-ers - if you are, then this is a must see.
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