As long as we don’t know the next sequence, it’ll be inter­est­ing to read, hear, watch and even live life :). Think about the audi­ences who hap­pened to watch the fol­low­ing movies, very early with­out know­ing about the story — The usual sus­pects, Parthiban kanavu[2003], Inside man, Hitch­cock films, Chil­dren of heaven, Adhe Kan­gall, Inglo­ri­ous Bas­terds [ sweet shock !  ] etc.

 Espe­cially in thrillers, it is very inter­est­ing to antic­i­pate about the hap­pen­ing in the story — that’s where the entire effort goes — like the movies Signs, Preda­tor [ ther­mal image ], Eeram. The other part is to make the audi­ence not to raise any ques­tions, at least while watch­ing or read­ing the movie because once we fin­ish read­ing or watch­ing, we would become crit­ics to whack the prod­uct into pieces :)

  Though I am not a fan of sci­ence fic­tion movies, I like them told with an appro­pri­ate pro­por­tion mixed with fic­tion [resem­bling the Vivek’s book title :) ]. Also I don’t like Nicholas Cage [ even I watched FACE OFF for John Tra­volta — Vasee­gara Vil­lain ]. That’s why I hes­i­tated to check this movie when Mad­han had sug­gested this movie.

 Plot

A dis­turbed school girl [ hear­ing voices in the head ] draws some­thing about the future. This is col­lected as part of the school’s notable event where they col­lect the draw­ings and put it in a time cap­sule. They take out the same after 50 years and it reaches another boy and his father. The draw­ing con­tains sequences of num­bers and noth­ing else. His father John [ Sci­ence pro­fes­sor in MIT ] is attracted towards it and finds a pat­tern out of the numer­als. What do they mean and what fol­lows are the inter­est­ing ele­ments of the story.

 View

  The fic­tion should be under­stand­able to the com­mon audi­ence along with sci­ence explained in it [some­times phi­los­o­phy too]. Involv­ing more astron­omy may keep the audi­ence away from the story. This story is grip­ping just because of the human inabil­ity to the events. The pro­tag­o­nist is an unusual hero, who doesn’t know to inject a virus pro­gram to solar sys­tem or cut the red/green wire in a nuclear bomb  :) and save the lit­tle blue planet. I liked his the­ory about deter­min­ism and ran­dom­ness. He says life is made up of acci­den­tal events and he sees no pur­pose to any of our hap­pen­ings. I under­stand that the movie is filled up with sym­bols related to Chris­tian­ity, athe­ism, GOD and the bible. How­ever, I am fas­ci­nated more towards the movie mak­ing and the ways the story is nar­rated to the viewer, grippingly. 

  The titling sequence is bril­liantly cap­tured from an aer­ial shot — almost, it starts at a ‘Pale Blue Dot’ range [ Thanks to Krishna and Carl Sagan ]. The com­puter graph­ics is used at an exact dosage,  so that only nec­es­sary events are shown involv­ing graph­ics — I would have eas­ily believed if they say it’s not graph­ics. The flight sequence and the sub­way sequences are mas­ter­pieces in the mak­ing front.

  Thank­fully the hero sur­ren­ders to the Mother Nature and sci­ence, instead of fight­ing against with laser guns :). The movie was a lit­tle bit drag­ging towards the end and become cliché typed. I don’t under­stand why any nat­ural threat is plot­ted against Man­hat­tan alone. Are we not liv­ing in the same planet? :)

  A watch­able n creepy sci­ence fic­tion thriller from Alex Proyas and Nico­las Cage.

:)

Toto

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