When the audience loses trust in the characters themselves, the movie loses its meaning

Alisa 2022-03-22 09:02:01

The director seems to have only one chance to make a movie in his life, forcibly stuffing all the reversals that can be used on his laptop into one movie. What the audience needs, however, is an unexpected but self-justifying inversion. Because of the lack of foreshadowing (the protagonist's self-training to play the blind man is barely explained), and the amount of detail that can't stand up to scrutiny, the characters' reactions in those extreme situations are so unreasonable that the audience has a hard time believing them. When the audience loses trust in the characters themselves, the movie loses its meaning.

Seven years ago, my evaluation of the short film version of "The Tuner" was: "There are many details that a two-hour film can't take care of, but this 13-minute short film explains them one by one. The music is slow, every second is so long .” Obviously, the Indians did a far cry from the original in this film, so far that even if it is not compared with the original, it fails to meet the requirements of a normal film for narrative logic.

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Andhadhun quotes

  • Akash: It's a long story.

    Akash: [after a pause] Coffee?

  • Inspector Manohar Jawanda: You blinded him? What do you mean? How?

    Simi: On the internet you can find a hundred ways to do that. Good. Now he's really blind.

    Inspector Manohar Jawanda: But the blind can talk. He can talk to the press. If there's an inquiry, I'll get the boot. We'll get caught. You should've killed him.

    Simi: I'm not a serial killer to kill them off, one by one. Keep playing the perfect husband. Hide behind your wife. Why didn't you take my call?

    Inspector Manohar Jawanda: My wife's aunt was in the ICU. You know how it is. You were married too.

    Simi: I was. And with a far better man than you. Why did you bring your gun that day? If you hadn't, none of this would've happened. He might have forgiven me. You think you're Dirty Harry, while I do the dirty work!