Aruvi - Meaning of Beer bottle (Analysis on existence)

 I think the first two frames of initial scenes tells the entire story of Aruvi.A girl's eyes looking the viewers and she occupies very small space in the corner, there is a lot of empty areas, the next shot is the big picture of herself which contains bleeding nose.The first frame shows nothingness in the blur life as same as Aruvi's search for meaning in her childhood days. She is not comfortable with her places and she always expects something unusual. So the initial frame conveys that searching the meaning in the plain empty area which can be spelled in the words of nihilism. And the second frame detailed with blood and without her vision which shows another part of the story that she struggles in society. The director made debut in his opening shots of the movie.

  A story revolves around the girl's journey into lying society. There is a lot of metaphors and symbolism in the plot.The director literally handles the magical realism in most of the places.A major part of the story detailed in the reality show which is called "Solvathellam Satthiyam". We can see that two stories told by subplot characters.One is about the granny who sold paniyaram and another one is about old village head.The first story shows the granny who is not obsessed with anything and didn't expect anything in life. And she didn't want to search the purpose of life.

 And the second story shows who expects love from his village peoples at his last moments. Both are deals with existential criticism of life. And the both are partially connected to the life of Aruvi. She didn't like the second one because she also didn't like oldman.but she likes the first story. But at the last moments, she also wants love as same as village head so she got the conclusion of the second story in the movie.

In final moments film is located in mountains. Opening scenes are contented with the waterfalls and mountains but the last one was dry.Generally, mountains signify the spirituality and they can be considered as God's nearest place in literature. And if they related to characters, it may illustrate that they feel isolated. And they symbolize loneliness or failure to reach her spiritual or emotional states.

Beer bottle stands for choices, chances, and metaphor of inevitability in life.The death can target anyone after we involved as a choice. This symbolism stands for our life's ending without our knowledge. The sequel exactly looks like Coin philosophy of Anton Chigurh in No country for old men movie.We see the beer bottle can target anyone, I think the climax scene explained it more briefly.The film ends with that beer bottle targets Aruvi.In earlier scenes, Aruvi is a god who rotates beer bottle to make the death choices.

But now she is the victim of it.It states herself to the victim of death or the end of existence. She laughs because she knew it that life can end without our permission and it means Nothing.

Jigarthanda - Neo-westernization in Tarantino's pattern

      In 2014 Karthick Subburaj gave birth to his masterpiece to Tamil cinema which is called Jigarthanda. Literally meant as Coldheart and it is solid proof that our directors try new genre in nowadays. The pacing of the film purely structured as per the Hollywood's critically acclaimed genre "Neo-western" which is a modernization of western dramas.The film critically and commercially gets successful reviews. Jigarthanda scripted as per the Quentin Tarantino's screenplay structure and the director credited in this movie as an inspiration of his works.In this post, I try to convince Jigarthanda as a neo-western cinema in Tarantino's ironical structure.

    Final scenes of  Jigarthanda is promising in that genre. It creates a mood as per the western formalism. A stripped guy waiting to die in the forsaken desert land. In a lot of western flicks, we see opponents who are ready to shoot with their guns. The good, the bad and the ugly is the perfect example of the western cinematography in firing scenes. The same sequence built by Subburaj in Jigarthanda. The tension created by the question,"Who is going to take their weapons first?" as same as Cowboy fights.Karthick has a gun and Simha has a firestick. The cinematography is really helpful for constructing the nature of western frames. Madurai landscapes portrayed differently in this movie for this genre.

Dramatic irony fully crafted for good purpose in this plot. Usually, ironies are created when the audience knows what happens next but characters don't or wise verse. The toilet scene in this movie is the nice example of ironical treatment in scenes. We know the dead guy is not Sethu but killer didn't. Which makes us laugh but at the same time it builds a tension among audiences. And in the ending symbolically represents the irony in the plot that is ruthless gangster turns to good comedian or villain turns to hero. Tarantino usually leaves a signature or memorable moments in every scene's ending. It makes the plot as periodic or chapters. So the entire film can be dissected into 4 or 5 sections easily as same as Tarantino's movies.

Let us compare the intro scenes of Jigarthanda and Inglorious Basterds, the same elements applied in applied in these scenes. Which is placed for a purpose, Generally Tarantino's plot hugely contains humoring Coldhearted guys. We see Christopher Waltz and Bobby Simha in our comparisons. And some mind puzzling dialogue games between two opponents.Subburaj hugely inspired by the use of black comedies.Especially that toilet murder scene can be considered as one of the iconic long shorts in Tamil cinema. Editing was done its job perfectly in these moments. Without any background BGMs, the scene looks as epic.