I had an intransigent negative view as regards the Kannada movies and its standards. I had firmly believed that the movie industry hadn't still broken the aura of 80's. Someone had suggested me to watch the movie 'Lucia'. To be frank, I was not at all interested. Movies which doesn't have the class and quality used to ruin my mood in the initial stages of the play itself. We can compromise on the storyline provided the movie is an entertainer or if the movie delivers at least peace of mind and happiness. Also if it delivers a good message and theme, we can adjust as well. But some movies which show crap phenomenon can kill your mood and day as well. Here I was afraid of that. And as a Bengalurian I had a bad feeling on Kannada movies as a result of seeing old-style movie posters on the road sides, and after watching some absurd and ludicrous dance performances and movie - scenes in television; spare not the costumes as well. When I was apprised of the fact that the movie 'Lucia' comes in genres 'Sci-fi' and 'Thriller', I was doubtful and had a predisposed mentality in my mind that I would not be watching the movie for not more than half an hour, which also happens to be the maximum limit that I had set in my mind. The information from my 'adviser' that the movie went to some film festivals on international basis prompted me to watch the movie. So I sat and gave a try. And boy was I not flabbergasted. The way the movie started promised me that the director is good. And the way the movie ended proved me on not just the script but on the quality of the movie and its merit to have gone to standard Film festivals. The movie is all about a drug 'Lucia' which has the ability to create vivid pictures in perfect juxtaposition through dreaming. And not just dreams rather dreams which can be controlled. Once the movie made its quarter way through I doubted whether it was just psychedelics and drug addiction which was all that the movie had in it. But it's not! The movie revolves around a person who had some unsatisfactory meaning for his life. The person ends up laying his hands on the drug 'Lucia' and suddenly finds himself in an avenue of a dream which he had fantasized since childhood. The drug 'Lucia' has a symptom – the dreams will be your life and your life will be just like your dream but once you stop consuming it then life would get mixed with the dream and the dream would end up as a nightmare. The movie is a kinship of these two that is the dream and life – a wee bit comparable with 'Fight Club'. If the story line is to be just given in concrete the viewer would lose the momentum and Thrill in watching it for which reason I prefer not to reveal anything on it. But for the sake of satisfaction for my heart I will put it as this – two personalities are involved, one who is a dreamer and one who is the protagonist in the dream, who is but the same person ending up winded up over the unavailability of' Lucia', which mandates the need for both to get killed or lost. One can never understand that the movie runs in retrograde. Only after the movie ends the viewer gets to discern as to what portrayed as reality was and which one the dream was. Adding to that one has to put in his full concentration and interest in order to understand the movie. If not the viewer has to just clap hands alongside the people who were successful in imbibing the life and meaning of the movie. The direction is awe-inspiring and one would never be able to accept that the movie was taken from a 5D camera. The mixing is so perfect. People have a tendency. When they hear it's a Sci-Fi, they spurn the very need to watch the movie no matter how good it is as it might not provide them the entertainment of their own taste they look for. And some people who come to know that drugs and dreaming is involved they would abstain themselves from watching movie for the fear of getting affected by it or maybe due to the protective mind of not letting to know their wards or beloved ones on the negative concepts involved in drug-addiction. Likewise all the people have separate interests towards choosing a movie to watch. Be it Scary ones, romance, Crime or anything. But here the beauty is that the movie isn't coming in any of these categories. That means any person can watch. No negative atmosphere or no negative message is involved. The movie in fact provides a happy ending but in a very different and new way. So all are welcome. The movie is a pleasure to the eyes and an informative guide for a lot who have shunned themselves out of some intricate and negative realities involved in this generation. The movie all together is beautiful and genuine and has some down to earth realities of life clubbed in the best way possible. Had it been furbished a little bit more after scrutinizing and omitting minor flaws, it would have won World-reputation like the movies 'Inception' and 'Fight Club'. And trust me flaws can't be spotted as it's only in the end that the eyes open. It's a must watch movie.
Review of Lucia
