As the story of a love affair and its long,
unhappy endgame, it looks interestingly like a middle-period Nadee with
fewer laughs, a wintry, desolate Ama and Piyal , complete with a
silent flashback-montage of the affair's most bittersweet
moments at the film's close. But the dramatization by screenwriter and
director open up Piyal's self-enclosed male world of rapture and
rage; it gives the women a voice of their own, with an excellent
performance from Michelle.
Nadee is electrified by extraordinary gift (Ama ), so late in his life; previously, he had been appalled to discover nature's secret sick joke, namely, that men are agonized by sexual desire well into unattractive old or rather middle age, and yet Nadee had always had the fame, status and robust health to gratify his needs. The sick joke is rather now that he is in love for the first time(I guess so ) in his life, and sees with terrible clarity how Ama will want to leave him reasonably soon. He becomes jealous, controlling, tormented and mad - inflamed with a passionate relationship of Ama 's body, and yet idiotically, selfishly unable to commit himself to her in the normal way she actually wants. The imminent, and inevitable, end of the affair prefigures her death in a way nothing else could: and when it happens, it is a terrible kind of death, more real than the real thing.
Revenge is a unpleasant thing to happen into the idea of love-making, however, and I have always wondered if it does not play a part in , that Nadee himself contrives for Ama and for their relationship. (Ama could, for example, have simply left him for a younger man, become more comfy herself and never called him again - which would have been unthinkably painful.)
What the film can't reproduce is the continuous, acrid pain of what male desire often is, thwarted or not: a continuous, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute pain, almost like a cancer pain. Opinions may divide, on gender lines, about whether this is an insight into the human condition or an egoistical indulgence, but it gives the film its severity and its ferocious magnesium flare. Prasanna Jayakodi has brought off a creative and corrective account of this story : an intelligent film for grown-ups.Mind blowing !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFve5wKtba8&feature=share
Nadee is electrified by extraordinary gift (Ama ), so late in his life; previously, he had been appalled to discover nature's secret sick joke, namely, that men are agonized by sexual desire well into unattractive old or rather middle age, and yet Nadee had always had the fame, status and robust health to gratify his needs. The sick joke is rather now that he is in love for the first time(I guess so ) in his life, and sees with terrible clarity how Ama will want to leave him reasonably soon. He becomes jealous, controlling, tormented and mad - inflamed with a passionate relationship of Ama 's body, and yet idiotically, selfishly unable to commit himself to her in the normal way she actually wants. The imminent, and inevitable, end of the affair prefigures her death in a way nothing else could: and when it happens, it is a terrible kind of death, more real than the real thing.
Revenge is a unpleasant thing to happen into the idea of love-making, however, and I have always wondered if it does not play a part in , that Nadee himself contrives for Ama and for their relationship. (Ama could, for example, have simply left him for a younger man, become more comfy herself and never called him again - which would have been unthinkably painful.)
What the film can't reproduce is the continuous, acrid pain of what male desire often is, thwarted or not: a continuous, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute pain, almost like a cancer pain. Opinions may divide, on gender lines, about whether this is an insight into the human condition or an egoistical indulgence, but it gives the film its severity and its ferocious magnesium flare. Prasanna Jayakodi has brought off a creative and corrective account of this story : an intelligent film for grown-ups.Mind blowing !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFve5wKtba8&feature=share
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