I take my movies seriously. I look for a message in every
movie, and I honestly don’t understand how to take that message lightly. That
being said, a good movie experience usually leaves me deeply affected. A bad
movie experience leaves me untouched.
It’s not that I only like happy endings. In fact I am
terribly skeptical of happy endings. I usually fancy myself as a passioned
realist (Yes, I am aware of how pompous that sounds), and I hate it especially
in love stories, when everything turns out hunky-dory. Like that nincompoop
(adjective?) movie of Karan Johar. What was it? That extra-marital affair one
with SRK, Rani Mukherji, Abhishek Bachhan and Preity Zinta I think. Okay now
when an effin’ extra marital affair plot
ends with both scorned halves of the couple ultimately cool with the
infidelity, that is ridiculous enough. Unless of course they are genuinely
chilled out hippy people, which I assure you NOBODY in a Karan Johar movie ever
is. As if mocking the audience, I distinctly remember the last scene of the
movie insinuating a possible romantic angle between the scorned husband of one
couple and the scorned wife of the other AT THE FREAKIN’ WEDDING RECEPTION OF
THEIR EXES! (Google reminds me I'm talking about Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna)Now I watched this movie I think some 6 years back so there might
be technical glitches in my memory, but if I am mistaken I will be nothing but
reassured that this wasn’t the case after all. The main reason I loathe the
Karan Johar gang is because they make such fools of the audience. I doubt he’s
stupid, but clearly he takes our stupidity for granted and it’s paying off for
him, it seems like. Especially with such INANE movies like Student of the Year
(which I have not seen, but I’m so livid I don’t care about fair chances
anymore) being made.
Anyway, this outburst wasn’t provoked by Karan Johar.
Curiously, it was provoked by a brilliantly made Malayalam movie called ‘Diamond
Necklace.’ I’d heard nice things about the movie, and though I am usually a
little wary of Malayalam movies set in cities (I can’t stand the way the
project ‘modern’ youth, women especially, there are more and more exceptions to
this now – 22 Female Kottayam, for example), I decided to give this one a
chance.
I wasn’t disappointed either. DN was engaging from the
minute is started. Fast moving, excellent acting, brilliant characterizations,
Fahad Fazil (or Fahadh Faasil as Wiki spells it) again flawlessly portrays the douchey
character of a spendthrift doctor who is a compulsive spender and lets this
weakness stoop himself into unimaginable lows. The three women in his life were
also nicely played by Samvrutha Sunil, and two actresses who I think are new
called Anusree and Gauthami Nair.
I was fast liking the movie more and more, because I couldn’t
wait to see how the unscrupulous protagonist was gonna pay for his various
misdeeds [SPOILER ALERT!!! which include stealing a diamond necklace from the
terminally-ill woman he slept with without telling her he is already married,
after making sure she’s asleep by double-dosing her with morphine and
consequently getting the nurse in charge (who he also cheated on) fired.] So
yeah, I was watching the movie thinking it should be fun to watch all of this
bite him in the ass so hard at the end. Except it didn’t! With unimaginable
luck, douchebag not only gets away BUT gets away with the goodwill of all the
people he cheated.
The same thing happened in Woody Allen’s Matchpoint (the one with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Scarlett Johansson
remember?) And I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the inspiration behind this
movie. But at least in Matchpoint
there is the satisfaction of at least some
of the cheat-ees finally realizing that they’ve been cheated. Even if Scarlett
Johansson was shot dead right after, at least for that one second Jonathan
Rhys-Meyers was hated. Here there’s nothing! Everyone forgives him, and is even
grateful to him for things he really had nothing to do with.
ARGH.
Sigh.
Sigh.
When the movie ended, my dad and mum understandably laughed
at my outrage. It’s just a movie, he said. Why are you acting like it really
happened?
Which is true.
So I should just chill out and go to sleep.
