There are times when man ask
profound questions like, “What is the meaning of life?” or “What is my purpose?”
or even “Balbir Pasha ko Aids hoga kya” bur rarely it happens that after watching
a Christopher Nolen film you ask yourself, “Why the hell did he make this
movie?”
To have expectation from a Nolen
movie is understandable, even statutory; however while watching the movie we
felt like young teenagers ready to jump from the 5th floor in the
expectation of being rescued by a Superhero, alas Shaktimaan never came. We
kept on hoping for some drama to unfold, which never happens.
We kept on waiting for something
to happen, story to keep moving, to have some extra ordinary dialogues appear
and make our mind numb. What we got was a documentary without a voice over.
Nolen is the master of non liner storytelling,
nobody does it better than him and Quentin Tarantino; however to watch same events
from 3 perspectives and 3 different camera angles without actually getting any new
insight makes it worst.
I judge a movie on what I took
away from it after it ended, was it entertaining, was it informational, did it
gave me a new perspective, what kind of emotions did it provoke? In present
case the answer will be disappointment.
Don’t get me wrong, people are
praising the movie like anything for its artistic beauty, I literary had to
open Wikipedia to understand what the director wanted to say, it turns out what
he wanted to say was nothing interesting.
My friends who went with me to
watch the movie kept on looking at me with vicious glances as if accusing me of
not only dragging them on a Sunday, but also as if I personally gave advice on
story and presentation of the movie's director.
Rating *1/2.
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