Saturday, 16 September 2017

Pudhupettai-The Metaphor of fear.

    Pudhupettai is deserving the statement,"Saturation region of raw-filmmaking", But it is full of symbolism for near 3 hours.Till now it is praised by the audience as a cult classic crime drama.The very first shot of the movie details with red and green.Kokki Kumar sits in the frame of green, and he feels very safe.And red is covered in another part of the frame.It signifies the fear.His fear of outside.So he is comfortable in green.These color sequences are handled in the whole movie brilliantly.After few views, I can assume that fear is one of the themes that dominate the characters of the film.Correct color modes with sufficient blending can give the emotional impact to the audience.


 "Losing control" is another reason for the fear.Because everytime Kumar gets struggle, only after losing his self-control.The great example scene is "Avasara pattutiye kumaru!".Because there is always a connection between "being fearful" and "losing control".This movie shows the psychological connection between survival and fear.This fear also reason for his anger."Under all anger is fear, and under all fear is fear of survival".Fear triggers an anger to a man.

 Sun and the moon plays a major role for showing the actions of the protagonist.When he becomes powerful sun rises and after the defeats sun falls.In the previous scene of the climax, Kumar hallucinates the doll as his enemy.In this scene, we can see the cold moon in the sky.The moon appears in literature as a symbol of madness.It symbolizes that Kumar going crazy.He beyond the limits of fear and get mad.And it is the waning moon among the clouds.It symbolizes the meaning "letting go".

 He feared three times in the movie for survival.He afraid of his father, Anbu, and Moorthy.These are the reasons of Kumar's growth as a gangster.He became powerful after facing those fears.I like to notation the quote of Veronica Roth who is an American novelist,"Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up".In the movie, we can see that every situation where Kumar struggles for survival, decides the rising of that particular character.

   

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