Ah Weekends! No boring soaps on TV, no need for alarms to wake up, extra hours for Gaming, time for carrying out what hasn’t been done, outing with ur loved ‘ones’, can have a peek at cricket and football, shopping, hotels, etc.. and most of all no sleep-inducing lectures and no tiring bus journeys. Having been busy with books all day, I decided to rest the night with a movie.
The Fight Club. The movie is about a insomniac narrator (Edward Norton), who finds solution to his problems by going to various support groups. He befriends a guy (Brad Pitt) called Tyler Durden on a flight journey, who seems to have a penchant for destructive behavior and forms a new support group with him called as the “Fight Club”. And there is this girl he hates so much, Marla Singer, who follows him wherever he goes. As Fight Club expands, they switch on to “Project Mayhem”, with Tyler as the wrecker-in-chief, causing pandemonium all over new york. As the narrator’s friend, Bob dies on a destruction project as a result of P.Mayhem, he calls it off and suddenly Tyler disappears. Everyone around him seems to be calling him by the name of Tyler and that’s when he realizes that HE is Tyler. An Alter (‘almost’ equal to a manasatchi) created by him as a result of work pressure, which was experienced as insomnia. The movie ends with a confrontation with Tyler, where the author shoots himself and kills Tyler.
If ever Tamil and English movies were contrasted and compared in every detail, there would be a lot more critics here, and a number of tamil magazines competing with Anandha Vikatan and Kumudham. Comparing Fight club (where a person and his manasatchi were acted by different people), with a few tamil movies here, I found myself laughing out loud. A long lasting blemish in the face of tamil cinema.. Identical Parents and Progenies..
The Dad and his two sons are always a look alike, except for their hair colour and the dress code. This is actually acceptable to an extent, as I have myself come across several families where offsprings are near photocopies of their creators, never identical though. This has actually been the main plot in several Sarathkumar’s movies.
I was also reminded of a Tamil movie “Giri”, where the villain (Ananthraj) has 4 sons, who are waiting for 20 years (Oh boy!) for a chance to avenge their father’s death against the hero’s family. Out of those four sons, one is a look alike to his father, while the others are entirely different! I dunno on what basis was the casting done or what the director had in mind! Wont the family look a bit odd in the society, if they had only one child looking like his father? (Sitting moment of success for the head of the family?? ;) ) Also there are a number of movies which depict annan-thambi pasam (yeah right!) where two brothers (one elderly and one younger) are identical, while others aren’t. Kudumbathula Kolapamo?
Well if ever this was a logical slip-up through the ages, melodrama moron T.Rajendhar and commercial trash Perarasu with help from Captain Vijayakanth, so-called Ilayathalapathy Vijay and Ramarajan (of 'shenbagame' Fame) on the Actors genre are affecting Kollywood big time with their illogical, supernatural, totally impossible fight sequences. I wont be surprised if any of these actors wear under garments over their pants in their next movies. They are no less a superman or a spiderman! Tamil cinema has a long way to go before it can be seen along the lines of US and UK movies and that wont happen for now!!
