Reviews

I generally hate it when individuals in the theatres can't keep quiet while a movie is running especially such an intensely character driven emotional cinema that requires attention of all your senses or It baffles my mind why people carry their babies into movie theatre for such kind of movies. Sorry for the Spoiler alert ! I get it if it was some comedy family entertainer or some dumb bollywood film but this one deserves all your mind and heart because it is an immersive experience. I'd say even do away with the intervals because that is another distraction to serious viewers. Malayalam cinema has this habit of making movies that scream 'keep it real'. Being a migrant mallu myself, there are so many nuances and cultural themes that only malayalees can relate and unfortunately outsiders who rely on subtitles will miss many of the nuances and will categorize it as just another survival cinema.

Malayankunju has some exceptional cinematography, shots that capture the beautiful village in idduki district in kerala stands apart. On many occasions, most good malayalam movie plots are built around gorgeous locations in kerala. That itself is a winner right there as viewers need to know where the plot and story take place. When it comes to regional cinema, three indian movie industries have an artistic edge namely malayalam, Bengali and marathi. If it's always about mass commercial cinema, then there are many movies you can watch. This is definitely not one of those. Slow paced cinema is the real cinema. If you can't understand that aspect, stay there in your commercial cinema circle because some exceptionally creative movies are not for those audiences. I loved the ending, climax really moves you in a way that rarely any cinema does as you come to a realization that events depicted in this movie actually happened and landslide is a common occurrence in hilly regions of kerala during some peak heavy monsoon. Fahad carries you all by himself with his complex character throughout the whole movie as we sympathize with him because of the miserable events he had to witness in his family. Mother and the son relationship is somewhat underrated in this movie and significance of such a bond cant be depicted in any indian movie without any sentimenal value to it. The way Aniyankunju( full name later revealed as anil kumar) acutely mistreats his mother really made me emotional to a certain point that I was sentimentally triggered even before the second part began. Aniyankunju was mentally disturbed even before the baby and her parents move in the neighboring house. Baby was just an instrument through which aniyankunju could find redemption after all the traumatic experiences been through. In a way, landslide is a blessing in disguise for aniyankutty who lives in ignorance at times and it makes him realise nothing matters at the time of life and death. I'd disagree to the fact that he being a casteist creates a certain dislike among specific viewers particularly since the character is nowhere perfect and one has to realise the fact that he is a flawed character like everyone else in this world. That is the reason why scripts are written. The entire burden of the events that shape aniyankunjus character is very well portrayed by fahadh fazil and this might well be one of his best performance till date. However, he does his best in every movie and his growth from chappakurish till now is phenomenal. I don't think any actor has given such mesmerizing performances. After every other movie, his creative acting skills are overpowering his all other previous performances and there is no stagnancy. He is criminally underrated and I won't be surprised if he is ignored further since real artists don't stand a chance for recognition in india. I felt AR Rahmans music was unnesscesarily added in some scenes and that could have been avoided. Fahads acting is so raw and immersive that ar rahmans background music may seem like a hindrance and often forcibly inserted into some scenes for pleasing a section of viewers. Creators need not worry about the lag and all as movies such as these need a slow pace otherwise it will seem like a Tamil movie where there is no space for conversations and everyone is continously talking and that really bothers me when all the characters are speaking continously breathlessly. I'm sure if this movie was released in the west, it would have bagged multiple awards.

It is always best if you do not read anything about a movie or watch any trailers and go right into it without any expectations. You will have an experience of a lifetime if the movie is well crafted. Though horrific and violent, cinematography is visually stunning and shot in style, quiet crafty to add. Events that occur in the course of time is depicted well with the use of darkness and color to explain the mood of a particular sequence or a scene. I felt a sense of apprehension and uneasiness when edward's wife and daughter are captured by nefarious bunch of crooks. It seemed very real and did not feel like edward was narrating it as part of his fictional novel. Narration lacked clarity and seemed flawed since the script tried to draw a comparison between the gruesome events that unfolded in fictional novel and the writer's pain endured due to failed relationship. It seemed completely unfair and imbalanced to create an analogy of a painful relationship with murder, rape of a teenage girl and her mother. Acting was top notch as always from michael shannon, jake gyllenhal and amy adams. The ending scene when jakes character walks outdoor with blood smeared on his face after shooting his family's murderer seems distinctly similar to the climax sequence in the prisoners.

If you have read the book, you will be strangely watching only a portion of it. It is an adaptation so that justifies the plot of the movie. It is purely carried by christian bale, the protagonist and the narrator who is decaying into extreme paranoia due to his mental conflict of overly materialistic, unsympathetic, superficial, conditioned and competitive wall street culture of the 90s. Truly magnificent acting performance by christian bale as american psycho signifies the rise of Christian Bale as an actor. Movies like these helped him with roles in Batman trilogy. It contains chilling and horrifying scenes where he feeds a stray cat into an ATM machine and murders a destitute vagrant in the dark allies. Truly excellent portrayal of a maniac who gets his kick by taking lives of people by gruesome means. Patrick Bateman cannot exist in real because no one will get off with the murders on the streets, people and cops would eventually notice. I am not sure whether they have made cult classics such as these in a decade. Because this was extremely satisfying and well made, some scenes are all time classics and already generated number of views and comments on youtube.

I find the protagonist amusing and lonely and the series mildly entertaining. He is obsessed and stalks the woman until there is no need to do so after a certain point. Dark and perverted yet real, this could easily have been a partial r rated series with partial nudity, but glad that it was not. I feel the woman was as obsessed with sex as the man who was obsessed with stalking, which by the way is not a normal behavior and should be discouraged.

'For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do and people are starting to notice' - Joker Joker is what we truly aspire to be but never really become. Joker embraced who he was and let his true dark instincts take over his once frail identity, arthur. Rise of Joker was inevitable as circumstances and fate demanded the negative force into existence. Arthur was really non existent in society until joker was born. Im fascinated with themes such as anarchism, anti establishment, class differences and poverty. Another movie with a somewhat similar theme is V for Vendetta. Some scenes in this movie, the way it's shot has similarities with taxi driver, black swan and prisoners. I've now watched it thrice every consequtive day. Every frame is captivating, every scene is transforming, inspirational and thought provoking. And this can only occur if the creator and cast devote themselves to a deep character study of the protagonist. Issues such as mental illness, bullying and abuse are central to the films story without which there won't be any character development and as a result, no joker. I felt emotions so strong that words fail to describe how I feel. This movie was an immensely immersive and hypnotizing cinematic masterpiece, an experience that I will never forget. Engraved in my soul forver ! 'its beautiful' Jokes says while being taken in a police van to prison. Because after causing riots and anarchy across Gotham, joker realises causing chaos is such a wonderful feeling because that's the only world joker knows. Chaos, disorder and violence. And that's perfectly in harmony with joker as that's definitive of joker traits. No wonder he is agent of chaos. God of chaos !