Common ground or a conversation for life with a mannequin. . . "Common Land" - this is how our valiant translators translated the title of the film from Tamil. Since I only understand a few words in Tamil, I won’t argue that the title doesn’t match the content (but, man, it doesn’t fit!!!) The film is played by Arya and the advertised Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi, whom all fans of YI cinema so praised, so praised ... well, I looked. In addition to the fact that I did not like the above actor in any way, either externally or in the game, I did not quite understand the film and the message in it. The film was positioned as an “intellectual masala” (this happens???), which raised “important issues” and involved a “powerful caste”. The important problem, I suppose, is that the executioner needs to get to know his victim before the execution in order to execute her properly. That's crazy. Or the important problem was that in the wasteland (he just fits the definition of "common land") you can not dump all the old weapons, shells and all sorts of rubbish, because children are blown up and suffer in every way because of this. But this idea was promoted in the film somehow obliquely, the main emphasis was placed on the activities of revolutionaries (revolutionaries came across very comical, take the same Kartika Nair, with her “lal salam”, which means, if I am not mistaken, “red hello” or “hello from the reds”). The girl again, too glamorous for a revolutionary, all in tattoos and fillers, with a figure pumped in the gym. Oh, my, Fanny Kaplan, too. The hero of Arya, around whom the whole plot was tied, in isolation from the circumstances is very cool - a revolutionary who is not sorry for his life, but very sorry for the lives of everyone else. Charisma he pumped himself already very powerful: even in a crowd of peasants in the same white prison uniforms you see him at once, he just sparkles. Well, in general, the first hour is a great movie: with meaning, and with enthusiasm, and even the first song is successfully attached. Then the communist extremists, who are planning to blow up something important in the mountains, suddenly start dancing romantically through the snowstorms - and that's it. The whole second part is the theater of the absurd.
We can also watch the YI actor Shaam as the warden in the film. He even has something to play and does it well. And in general, I came to the conclusion that the main problem of the film is that very well written characters are shoved into a completely stupid plot, which does not know what it is about - whether about the death penalty and its admissibility, or about the Communists, or the problem of radioactive debris in India, or anything else. What got me done was that a drunken executioner made himself a dummy to practice putting a rope around the defendant's neck. And in the end, he became so friends with this mannequin, so befriended that they even drank together.
No one needs to see it, except for the fans of Arya. If anyone finds any other hidden meaning there, please let me know. I didn't find it.
8 out of 10