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say Mysskin is the kind of director Tamil movie industry
has been waiting for so long, when talking about truthfulness
I am reminded of the words by Confucius, he said that
"superior men know what is "right"
and the inferior men know what sells"
Well I am sure that this film is a very very important
milestone in the history of Tamil cinema, if you think
I am over exaggerating let me tell you one particular
scene which bowled me over...this movie expresses
things without even expressing it....
Ok the scene goes like this, Akilesh is watching a
program on TV which is about motherly love and affection,
it makes him so engraved in that that even when his
grandmother switches the TV off he goes and fetches
the remote from her and switches the TV on again and
gets so immersed in it, one can feel the real yearning
in him for his mother ....just then the camera zooms
in on the TV and damn the noise of the TV getting
smashed ....and you see this amazing actor Mysskin
walking out of the hall where he has just now smashed
the TV because the program was about motherly love
.... and he goes out saying to the staffs of that
asylum that "Radio pettiya yaro odachitaanga
" ... what can one say about this amazing scene
which captures the two extreme emotions of the characters...one
has extreme love for his mom and for this reason he
wants to see her but the other hates his mom to the
extent that he breaks a TV just for it showing a program
on motherly love...there are many scenes like this
in the movie which are very subtle ......
Here is another scene which I enjoyed....
After the boy loses his money to a thug, Mysskin and
Akilesh are shown sitting on a pavement wondering
what to do next...just then Mysskin gets hysterical
and snatches the powder pack which has coins in it
from the little boy, but the little boy handles him
in a smooth way and gets back the money from him....
the scene is cut to the bus stand where both are shown
sitting, the boy observes the way Mysskin is wearing
his shoes wrongly and confirms that this is a mad
man so he excuses himself from Mysskin ..Boy, what
a subtle way to show that the boy knows more than
what he seems to know......and in the climax when
the boy shouts at Mysskin "Poda mental "
to make Mysskin angry, this makes Mysskin so hysterical
but he controls himself from hurting the boy, ...Boy,
that scene was so so INTENSE, that’s called
real acting ...just then the boy feels so sorry for
how Mysskin suffers and comes down to him with tears
rolling down his face and helps Mysskin with his shoes
and puts it right ....
What subtleness !!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT
Go watch this movie in the theater if you want Tamil
films to be among the leagues of what is now being
hailed and will be hailed as world class movies !!!!!!!!!
My Rating 4.5/5
Prasanna Kumar
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