The prince tries to keep the magi­cian away using the local police Wal­ter Uhl. The inspec­tor is an out­sider in this story and the story is uncounted from his memories.And at the end, the film jus­ti­fies the plot and the means.

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The 2 great actors Edward Nor­ton and Paul giletti have done a neat job in han­dling their roles. Paul’s best comes in Cin­derella man [ what a per­fro­mance in such a great film ! ]. Edward Nor­ton is also know for his won­der­ful work in The Painted veil and Fight club. In fact, the story unfolds in the eyes of the inspec­tor Wal­ter Uhl and then he has the mised sym­pa­thy and sus­pec­tion on the illu­sion­ist. The cli­max is inter­est­ing and explained much with Paul’s expres­sions [ resem­bled me old Sivaji Ganesan’s act­ing with his facial expres­sions ] and it was a good one. Edward man­ages with his looks and unpre­dicted char­ac­ter­siza­tion just apt for a mys­te­ri­ous illusionist.

Looks very much like a fairy tale, right ? yep. It was writ­ten as short story first and adapted to screen by Neil Burger. The tone of the film is so appeal­ing that they take us the that period. Some­how, com­monly they fol­low a light yel­low­ish brown tone [ like in Hey Ram ! ]  and an old tech­nique called ‘Autochrome’ in film­ing. The same pat­tern might have seen in other movies like Sleepy hol­low, Sweeney todd. Check Ayutha ezhuthu — the film is told in 3 dif­fer­ent episodes with 3 dif­fer­ent colours [ Red, Green and blue ! ]. The mood of the film and the selec­tion of colours are really wonderful. The films gives a black n white feel­ing formed much with shades. Dick Pope has done the com­mend­able job as cin­e­matog­ra­pher [ nom­i­nated for acad­emy award too ! ]. He claims that most of the scenes were as real as pos­si­ble with less CG involved.

The sound is also inter­est­ing and it is used per­fectly; when the inspec­tor talk­ing to the prince in the field, where he hunts with loud gun shots. The hero­ine is more native and doesn’t appeal as much as the hero n inspec­tor roles. The good thing is that too see a 2 hrs script con­verted from a short story inter­est­ingly well. [ Memento is also made from a short story — another mys­te­ri­ous masterpice ].

:)

Toto.

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