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**Slonopotam845** · 11-03-2011, 05:07 AM

Did UP work 'emotionally'? The visuals in particular. Any particular shot that took us to a heightened state as the character's. Like the close-up shot of Bhagavathar as he feels the cemented wall in Veedu. Which is one of my fav. unadulterated moments on film. Pure cinema.

No, kid. You don't get an emotional high in any single shot. That was BM's technique. Imo, I struggle with BM films - they are always mixed. Moments of brilliance. Then ordinariness. Oru volatility irukkum. But then that is the nature of the man. Mahendran is a placid guy. As I observed before, avaroda extra-marital kasamusavE oru placid-looking thuNai nadigaiyOda dhaan, unlike the high profile Balu M, who could mix it up with some top-of-the-line brilliance like Shoba. . The closest you get to feeling a character's emotion is when a Vijayan, with his Life crumbling before his eyesa, and his citadel brought down in a few hours, and facing the fate awaiting him, turns placidly to the people and says "naan paNNa thappulaiye periya thappu ungala violent akkinadhu dhaan". A bit out of the place in that Mahendran seems to have abandoned his character graph suddenly because even 5 minutes before in the movie, you don't see any chance of his character making such an observation. But then, it is his last moment and what he goes through, and perhaps a resigned acceptance brings up that end-of-life wisdom vignette. But Mahendran's triumph is you feel that character's mind at that point. Finally, he repents, and his mind goes not to his individual crimes but the horror of the impact of his psychological violence on the people now turned against him.

11-03-2011, 05:07 AM	#36
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	Did UP work 'emotionally'? The visuals in particular. Any particular shot that took us to a heightened state as the character's. Like the close-up shot of Bhagavathar as he feels the cemented wall in Veedu. Which is one of my fav. unadulterated moments on film. Pure cinema. No, kid. You don't get an emotional high in any single shot. That was BM's technique. Imo, I struggle with BM films - they are always mixed. Moments of brilliance. Then ordinariness. Oru volatility irukkum. But then that is the nature of the man. Mahendran is a placid guy. As I observed before, avaroda extra-marital kasamusavE oru placid-looking thuNai nadigaiyOda dhaan, unlike the high profile Balu M, who could mix it up with some top-of-the-line brilliance like Shoba. . The closest you get to feeling a character's emotion is when a Vijayan, with his Life crumbling before his eyesa, and his citadel brought down in a few hours, and facing the fate awaiting him, turns placidly to the people and says "naan paNNa thappulaiye periya thappu ungala violent akkinadhu dhaan". A bit out of the place in that Mahendran seems to have abandoned his character graph suddenly because even 5 minutes before in the movie, you don't see any chance of his character making such an observation. But then, it is his last moment and what he goes through, and perhaps a resigned acceptance brings up that end-of-life wisdom vignette. But Mahendran's triumph is you feel that character's mind at that point. Finally, he repents, and his mind goes not to his individual crimes but the horror of the impact of his psychological violence on the people now turned against him.
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