The turn of phrase in the fights between the family makes you laugh, tells you that it is okay to laugh at what is happening instead of cry. From what I could piece together it is the dialogue that turns this from a tragic film to more of a comic film. I think I can understand what I was missing by not having the words. But he also wanted to tell a story where the words used by the characters were an important part in the overall meaning. For instance, that we see one household almost always at night and one almost always during the day, until the dramatic ending when the night invades the day. From the moments of pure visual storytelling that were included, I know the director has that tool in his tool box. But that’s not a flaw in the film necessarily. It’s not just not having the language, it’s that too much of the film was non-visual. I’m putting that upfront because I know I did not like this film as much as some of you did, and I was trying to figure out why. And a dialogue heavy film in a language I don’t understand is going to be hard for me to fully appreciate. A dialogue heavy film is always going to turn me off a little bit. My taste in film has always been visual rather than dialogue driven, that’s why I like Indian movies to begin with, because they are so visual. There are subtle moments that could have been conveyed more through the images than through the dialogue. It’s a verbal film, rather than a visual one. But the second part is kind of a little on the film.
That’s on me, not the film, it’s a good thing for movies to have their own languages and cultural touchstones and all the rest of it.
First, of course, I don’t speak Malayalam.
But it’s also very Malayalam, isn’t it? Any other film industry, this would be a tragic gritty story. I saw it! Thanks to all of you telling me I had to! And there are some truly beautiful moments.
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