If I say that the past week was filled with madness, I would not be exaggerating. I do not know if this was planned or anything, consecutive releases in Tamil have been about insanity and both movies represent the psychological ramifications of insanity.
In Nadunisi Naygal, Veera plays a sexually abused kid who later transforms into a sexual predator, killing women by the whim. We never really get to understand how this transformation takes place, but it can be argued that madness knows no reason.
In Gautam Vasudev Menon’s latest offering where he sincerely tries to go beyond accustomed film-making by letting debutantes play lead characters and in the absence of music, the theme which may make people in the seats close their eyes and draw up their legs is not something new to this cinema, but still we flinch.
Nadunisi Naygal follows regular psycho drama, close up of killer; that wry smile, pauses between words and killer taking pride in his killings. I thought the lead actor was irritating, I lost the movie from then on and added to this fact that I had no one to root for, no lover of the troubled; no stoic policeman absolutely nobody. He film is in other words the case file of the sexual predator which was only so-so( so-so can be used whenever I am at loss of words).The 'poetic' voice over by the lead makes the movie more contrived and lacking in suspense.
Nadunisi Naygal makes Yuddham Sei look like a masterpiece, what I mean to say is the my respect for the Mysskin film went up by considerable blocks and there is no need for me to mention that the film(YS) has a standing on its own right.
Madness is quite different in the other side of the world, in ‘The Killer inside Me’ Casey Affleck plays a tormented deputy Sherriff in small town America, the movie adapted from writer Jim Thomson’s novel of the same name deals with sexual perversion coupled with Sadomasochism, but that’s not all the movies goes further in interpolating the psyche of Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) about what is sane and insane, the movie makes an interesting watch with Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Simon Baker playing supporting roles. The Killer inside may not be suitable for certain viewers, parental guidance is advised.
I am personally apprehensive at the story of the madman, it’s not that their story should be left untold; it’s only that I would prefer something lighter. Judgment reserved.
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