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But our heroes, they welcome those things, they find a place for them, make them fit, help the whole world live together in a harmonic system, allow nature and natural instincts to flourish. But another way to think of it is the other people are trying to control the mess, to get rid of anything that doesnвЂ™t fit in with their perfect view of the world. There is a metaphor used often of our central family living at the end of the islet where folks throw their trash. It is about people who fit into this environment, work with it and flow with it, and those who fight against it, try to organize and control everything.

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It is not a coincidence that this movie is set in a green tourism zone. It also wants to talk about family and, more than that, eco-systems. And thatвЂ™s okay, like Parava this is a movie that deals with men growing up in a layered and complex way, it doesnвЂ™t ignore the women, it just wants to talk about the very specific experience of being a man in the world. The women are there too, and are also good, especially Grace Antony in a difficult role as an unreadable new wife. Mathew Thomas has a great face and mostly just has to look young and innocent. Soubin Shahir is wonderful, melding comic and dramatic without ever feeling like he goes too far. Shane Nigam continues his slow growth from вЂњis that guy a good actor and also kind of hot? IвЂ™m not sure, maybe?вЂќ to вЂњI am excited in two ways every time he shows up onscreen!вЂќ Fahadh Faasil continues his willingness to take the interesting part whether or not it is the heroвЂ™s role. And both sets deserve credit for being able to play the roles they play. And there is another set, that is closed, impenetrable, and a little disturbing because it is so hard to understand them. There is one set of characters that is an open book, they say what they feel and what they mean, there is nothing hidden there. And the very dramatic background music cues.Д¬ome to think of it, that sensation of вЂњsomething doesnвЂ™t quite fit between what is being shown and what is being saidвЂќ ties in to the story this film is telling. Part of the humor, I am guessing, comes from the very sincere and tormented acting styles as folks deliver these silly lines. I assume that is what was happening, because I was watching this in a sold-out theater and everyone was laughing during scenes that, to me, read more like serious drama (just based on what the English subtitles were saying). The turn of phrase in the fights between the family makes you laugh, tells you that it is okay to laugh at what is happening instead of cry. From what I could piece together it is the dialogue that turns this from a tragic film to more of a comic film. I think I can understand what I was missing by not having the words. But he also wanted to tell a story where the words used by the characters were an important part in the overall meaning. For instance, that we see one household almost always at night and one almost always during the day, until the dramatic ending when the night invades the day. From the moments of pure visual storytelling that were included, I know the director has that tool in his tool box. But thatвЂ™s not a flaw in the film necessarily. ItвЂ™s not just not having the language, itвЂ™s that too much of the film was non-visual. IвЂ™m putting that upfront because I know I did not like this film as much as some of you did, and I was trying to figure out why. And a dialogue heavy film in a language I donвЂ™t understand is going to be hard for me to fully appreciate. A dialogue heavy film is always going to turn me off a little bit. My taste in film has always been visual rather than dialogue driven, thatвЂ™s why I like Indian movies to begin with, because they are so visual. There are subtle moments that could have been conveyed more through the images than through the dialogue. ItвЂ™s a verbal film, rather than a visual one. But the second part is kind of a little on the film. ThatвЂ™s on me, not the film, itвЂ™s a good thing for movies to have their own languages and cultural touchstones and all the rest of it. First, of course, I donвЂ™t speak Malayalam. But itвЂ™s also very Malayalam, isnвЂ™t it? Any other film industry, this would be a tragic gritty story. I saw it! Thanks to all of you telling me I had to! And there are some truly beautiful moments.

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