When we go to a movie or listen to a story, as adults, we expect something that reflects our lives as human beings. As beings capable of thoughts, feelings and actions. To witness warmth between two people in love, if they are. We want to atleast understand, in the end, what the story wants to be. That's the problem with the latest movie Manu, directed by a debutant - Phanindra Narsetti. It doesn't understand what it wants to be. The movie feels chaotic and doesn't understand when to slow down and let moments sink in. What is it trying to say in the end? That, revenge is the only option for the defeated? That death is the only thing that puts end to evil? That, for love to prevail, death is the only answer? Or we are chained to the demons that consume us when evil? Maybe, I'm digging at nothing, because the movie doesn't really hold these messages to be emotionally impactful. The movie is too self absorbed with it's own pretentious musings. Sure, the effort gone through can be appreciated. There are some good exchanges that temporarily evokes a desperation to feel the warmth and high that Neelu evokes through her actions, but all of that fades when some ridiculous series of events happen and we lose a sense of tone that this movie was trying to set. I lost track of what I was feeling and I just wanted the movie to end. And it did. I feel pity. Pity for the self absorbed man trying to escape his bludgeoning reality.
Review of Manu
