Jallikattu (2019) :
Brief Review -
A rapid-fire toasting of a beast and wildness of Humans turned the Realistic film into Mythological tale. Jallijattu is not about one individual human, it's about the entire village (or mankind) and of course only all Men (no women, why? No comments) are involved in the crazy, wild manimal fairytale. A buffalo escapes from slaughterhouse and creates a village-wide hysteria in which we see all men turning even wilder and brutal than animals. So this was the basic idea behind the storyline but was focused occasionally while rest of the time it was about anything but nothing useful and related to the main story. In the runtime of about 95 minutes Jallikattu gets to the main content only when the beast appears, otherwise it has some useless small small segments to tell such as a lady having affairs, politicians thinking about thier future, casteism, a police officer's quarrels with his wife and bla bla. All of it got nothing to do with the storyline yet covers 90% of runtime and the reason and logic behind is still pending. The climax of the film is so unrealistic that it looks like mythological story from a novel or as if we are watching a fantasy action film set in stone-age. How was those man supposed to climb on each other on so high just to kill one man in realistic proportions? Leaving it aside and coming to the positives of the film the first one is, the direction style is different and modern. The use background score is fascinating and innovative. It gives a feel of watching something really new and fresh to eyes. Jallikattu was humanly a very tough film to make yet it delivers spectacular visuals shot amazingly by cinematographer and brilliantly directed by the director. Apart from these three things there is nothing in the film that can be termed Great. The chaotic aspirations of the team to make something different deserves one time viewing.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest
A rapid-fire toasting of a beast and wildness of Humans turned the Realistic film into Mythological tale. Jallijattu is not about one individual human, it's about the entire village (or mankind) and of course only all Men (no women, why? No comments) are involved in the crazy, wild manimal fairytale. A buffalo escapes from slaughterhouse and creates a village-wide hysteria in which we see all men turning even wilder and brutal than animals. So this was the basic idea behind the storyline but was focused occasionally while rest of the time it was about anything but nothing useful and related to the main story. In the runtime of about 95 minutes Jallikattu gets to the main content only when the beast appears, otherwise it has some useless small small segments to tell such as a lady having affairs, politicians thinking about thier future, casteism, a police officer's quarrels with his wife and bla bla. All of it got nothing to do with the storyline yet covers 90% of runtime and the reason and logic behind is still pending. The climax of the film is so unrealistic that it looks like mythological story from a novel or as if we are watching a fantasy action film set in stone-age. How was those man supposed to climb on each other on so high just to kill one man in realistic proportions? Leaving it aside and coming to the positives of the film the first one is, the direction style is different and modern. The use background score is fascinating and innovative. It gives a feel of watching something really new and fresh to eyes. Jallikattu was humanly a very tough film to make yet it delivers spectacular visuals shot amazingly by cinematographer and brilliantly directed by the director. Apart from these three things there is nothing in the film that can be termed Great. The chaotic aspirations of the team to make something different deserves one time viewing.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest