The LinkedIn post had a suggestion for watching this movie. So, since it was Netflix, a quick search got me the listed movie. My Netflix algorithm works around Asian dramas from Korea, Mainland China, and sometime Thai. It also includes Hindi, English, Tamil shows and movies.
This was not on view option carousel; I had to do a search for this movie. It has been over ten plus years since I have last seen a movie in the theatres with fellow movie buffs.
For all honesty, I don’t have the gumption to watch it with others, maybe with Jo and my younger sister maybe. But even to suggest this movie seemed a little off putting but there is a nice social message.
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The role done by Yogi Babu was excellent! His character is a spin-off of main theme. While his experience provided the most humour while also educating about lack of acceptance among people and sticking to stereotype modular thought processes.
Body shaming, his phone behaviour and the take of it was well-done. Atypical emotional masala given with a right touch of punchlines. The angle that movie gives of people and their behaviour when hiding behind a mask.
Something happens when humans seek validation in a virtual space when they should seek real people. But in the private spaces are the conversation really above board and honest.
The first half of the movie showed an excellent choice of cast. The cast crew had done an excellent job. Sathya Raj, Radhika, as parents of the protagonists were a nice counter balancing acting.
Both the veteran actors stole a few scenes where they were either nagging or just being parents worried about their children. But both talked to their respective child when both are faced with insurmountable issue of trust.
I did not have a phone until I started to work after my marriage. Back then I only had my ex-partner, my manager, and grocery store numbers. I had no friends in Singapore. Neither did I know how to operate a phone. I used it like landline.
The fact that I could look around the whole movie in horror and curiosity whether that would even be legal. Certain aspect of the generation’s culture on the net could be really damaging and life threatening.
This kind of makes me overthink if doing away with social media maybe a good solution. Illicit exposure to content at a very early age might be a deterrent to progress as a abiding adult.
Because the social evil that the movie talks about was already existing in the society but the phone illicit activities have blown it apart and swirling in the debris of the tide is regret and maybe evoke an understanding.
This movie made me sit up and think of the lone souls who seek solace in hiding their identity and masquerading as people who could get away with any crime based on having some fun.
Otherwise, I found the movie to pick up a social mirror on dark side of human interaction in anonymous spaces where authority is not on vigil. Eventually, the individual’s onus to be responsible for the online activity.
Of course, this makes me rethink if I should review my online activity and make it more stringent. The first time, I found I was going crazy about mail responses, or likes in Facebook or any SocMed channel, I feared my desperation for more of that single red circle with a bigger white number for notification.
That is when I dropped off from Facebook and regulated my online activity this was way back in 2012. I found that addiction began to fester and begin to hurtful depressions of socially being ignored.
With each new app this social evil will raise its head and dance to charm only to be venomous for the individual. When identity of the Self is based on the likes and viral shares that is when I know that the basics of growing up had gone wrong.
We carry our socio-psychological faults and expect that the net would do better that real-life. That point is a wrong understanding of oneself. The movie just showed a mirror of relationship in present day scenario. What keeps them together lies in the inert understanding that people carry along with them.
I would rate the movie for 3.5 out of 5 stars. The movie brought to the front a social crisis that cannot be changed unless there is trust in the phone user to not breach the faith of good citizenship.
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