Kuthiraivaal

A little too far fetched for me. I watched till the end as the movie was different from the normal run of the mill type. Writer was trying to say something but it didn't reach me.

This movie is kind of a painting and the beauty n detail of it can be interpreted based on the particular viewer's experience on innocence, love, compassion, etc... Generally a movie, will travel with clear director's(plot) point of view and the message he/she wishes to deliver. But this movie, has left tat doors open.. An effort to keep those doors open for viewer's is to be appreciated.. I think one small, fine line drawn here is from the point the protagonist realizes that he has lost his loving self somewhere in life's journey and search for the point where he has lost his loving self and reaching it there to reconnect with it.. Again, it may be my perception on the movie..Showing his innocent part of life using budding friendship with a girl child when he was a kid is beautiful.

Quite a little, Kuthiraivaal is a surrealist, absurd, psychic mode of film and it goes slow and vivid. The subject matter of the film recollects me of a French film Holy Motors where a lot of symbolism and metaphors are there. When entering detail into the structure of the film there lies a lot of elements that resembles to the subconscious condition of human minds. The reference to baby syndrome/mirror syndrome, the importance of the preservation of nature, etc is some of the layered themes inside this movie. The movie is completely a different path of making and it only engages that kind of audience.

I gave 7 star to only cinematography and music. Because I am not able to understand what exactly writers trying to convey in this movie.

If you attempt something new, then you should explain the things as a voice over in the movie to make understand layman. Even I used to watch Martin sorceress, Hitchcock, Wes andersan, Nolan etc. But their movies are easy to understand. Because they delivered the clear plot.

My worry, i spent 1000 rs with my family for kuthiraivaal. Am not able to enjoy the story as I was not able to understand anything. Not only me. We were around 30 ppl in theatre, no one has understand the movie.

If you make movies for only intellectual then you should prepare audience before they step in to theatre.

If you don't want to explain the movie, then you should promote movie as its made for only intellectual. So, we don't watch this kind of movie.

If you are intellectual, then you better make the movie for yourself and show it to ppl whom think can understand the movie. Don't release the movie in theatre.

The last time i was mind blown for staging in an Indian arthouse was for Pushpendra Singh's The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (2020) and Ronny Sen's Cat Sticks (2019). I can add few more titles which standout for it's fresh filmmaking like the works of Prantik Basu, Aditya Vikram Sengupta's Jonaki (2018), Ekta Mittal's Birha (2018), Achal Mishra's Gamak Ghar (2019), Ridham Janve's The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain (2018), Arun Matheswaran's Rocky, Koozhangal by PS Vinothraj and finally one of my favourite Varthamana (2018), directed by Umesh Amshi with late actor Sanchari Vijay. Kuthiraivaal is added to the list now and i must say this film is a labyrinthine that combines the weird with the banality of the everyday and ultimately raises more questions than answers. The tail of existence is told in a Kafkaesque style mind trip that leads to a series absurd moments, but occasionally loses itself in its own pretensions and feels like a random collage of abstract and surrealistic visual elements. I know this sounds like a recipe for pretentious disaster but there are genuine efforts in the filmmaking that turns this awkward undertaking into a total cerebral experience. In few scenes i could recollect films of Latin American arthouse filmmakers, even Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Eduardo Nunes's Unicórnio (2017) and some Béla Tarr. There's so much to say but i'll leave it here, maybe revisit this again. I don't recommend this to every moviegoers, it will be a tedious watch to sit through and seem like a boomer uncle going through existential crisis. Like my Rocky (2021) review, i want to end it by requesting only the passionate/serious cinephiles to support this experimental effort and spread the word.