mani ratnam's michael mann film!!!? but also a refried mix of a lot of his own work, though i do appreciate the audacity of all involved to rip themselves off because nobody else does it well enough. a landslide of absolutely baffling decisions on every level - there are moments of great beauty and dynamic filmmaking but i genuinely have no idea what the takeaway is, at times this plays like a comedy/parody and there is not an ounce of…
A polite man is driven to murder. He becomes a prophet and screams manifestos on love, war, and the increasingly alarming impact of technology and progress. Driven to insanity by his own insights into the human condition, he travels to a river in an attempt to drown himself but instead is baptized and absolved of sin. He dies, crosseyed yet painless.
This is the definitive fairytale of my generation, and the moral is "watch out, you might get what you're after". Jesus lives, and he's wearing a giant suit.
