gut experience

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2007)

I've always wondered how people listen to a song for the lyrics and completely miss out the music, and then I understood that music was too abstract for them and they had to hook onto something superficially meaningful, and these were the lyrics, either good or bad, it does not really matter. Why am I talking about music, commenting on a movie here? Well, if some of you forgot, movies are not about the lines pronounced, or the realism of the plot or about the faithful rendering of the era. These are the things that can help a movie, but, if it lacks in producing this gut feeling, known as catharsis from the ancient times, it misses the point. So, all the objective dissecting is completely misplaced in this sort of movie-going experience because this is the movie you feel inside your guts. It is not supposed to be intellectual. It is not a study of human behavior, it is just a piece of film-making that either stirs you or not. It definitely stirred me. I felt it. It was good. That's what a movie should do. No rationalization, just that feeling inside your stomach.