Tuesday, 16 January 2018

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.






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