love, sex & dhoka

well, if you had asked me the moment I walked out of the theater or even while I was watching the movie, I didn’t have any great feeling about it. in fact I was wondering what the heck it was all about. I felt it was a very average, so-so movie.

I am a story guy and the 3 stories were just general stories, nothing to rave about. but we friends came out and all of us initially felt the same way about the movie. we started talking and each of us slowly realized that there was a very disturbing and scary point the movie was making. I remembered an interview of Dibakar when he said the camera was the protagonist in the movie. then when I saw the camera in the 3 stories it is interesting how the role of the camera kept evolving.

in the first story the camera had a child like simplicity in the way. it is a inactive camera used by a good guy, very much in love with the world, especially with this girl and the camera is lovingly watching them, but then suddenly this innocence is marred by a bizarre violent end.

in the second story the (close circuit) camera is a bit diabolical as it is. It is meant to watch people coming, keep a record of the goings on, is used specifically to spy. slowly the human beings start exploring other possibilities of using this static, convenient spy for ‘other’ motives. and this guy is manipulated by the existence of this camera and the pressure of his circumstances to make use of the camera for an utterly reprehensible purpose. Here too the human being has to approach the camera not vice versa.

the 3rd story doesn’t start with any scruples. the camera in this story is a scheming tool right from the beginning. and the human beings are a set of scheming people trying to figure out what they can get using the sting camera that will help them get popularity or money. so even an incomplete sting operation where the actual dark deed is supposedly not captured lends the journalist guy to ridicule throughout his life.

reminds me of Douglas Adams' - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. it is a hilarious series of books, fantastic and very funny. one comment among many other cool ones that Adams makes is that human beings are all the while thinking they are conducting experiments on rats. actually it is the rats who are experimenting with human beings. they keep doing stuff that leads humans to think in a different way and then have a ball watching how confused human beings become J

technology slowly but surely is manipulating people into becoming different kinds of villains. and i think because it gives so many avenues for villainy, more of us are doing things we would consider unethical or even wrong. but then at the same time, technology also enriches our life so much and makes it more fulfilling, it is difficult to do much but only constantly make ourselves aware of where we stand in the overall scheme of things.