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Spoilers ahead…
It’s a cliché by now to quote Shakespeare and say all the world’s a stage, the men and women merely players. But the film really makes us feel we are all part of a cosmic/divine plan.
The “hero entry shot” of Mammootty in Lijo Jose Pellissery’s magical new movie, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, occurs not when he enters the frame (and the movie) – but when he is already locked in a frame. Theni Eashwar is the brilliant cinematographer, and he films the events in a series of static master-shots, turning the screen into the kind of “fixed” stage where theatre is performed. It’s a cliché by now to quote Shakespeare and say all the world’s a stage, the men and women merely players. But Lijo (working from his story, developed by S Hareesh) really makes us feel we are all part of a cosmic/divine plan. We are all locked into playing predetermined parts, over which we have no control. The static frames seem to mirror a static way of life, where everything is preordained, and there is no free will – and therefore, anything and everything can happen.
You can read the rest of the review here:
https://www.galatta.com/malayalam/movie/review/nanpakal-nerathu-mayakkam/
And you can watch the video review here:
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