JALLIKATTU MOVIE HIDDEN MEANING

               

                 HI THIS IS MANEESH....

                 "JALLIKATTU" THE OFFICIAL ENTRY TO OSCARS FROM INDIA. MANY PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE BUT MOST OF THEM WERE UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE HIDDEN MEANING BEHIND SEVERAL SCENES. THERE ARE SO MANY SYMBOLISMS AND METAPHORS AND INNER MEANING TO THIS FILM.   

 

              WARNING: THE PEOPLE WHO DIDNT WATCHED THIS MOVIE MIGHT NOT GET THE EXPLANATION

                 THE MOVIE STARTS WITH BUTCHER 'KAALAN' VARKEY, IN MALAYALAM KAALAN MEANS 'THE LORD OF DEATH'. HE IS THE LORD OF DEATH AND BUFFALO IS HIS VEHICLE. SO IN SHORT THE PEOPLE RUNNING BEHIND THE BUFFALO SYMBOLISES AS ACTUALLY RUNNING TOWARDS THEIR DEATH AND THE SAME THING HAPPENS IN THE CLIMAX. AND KAALAN VARKEY DOESNT SHOW UP IN THE CLIMAX FOR THE SAME REASON AS HE HIMSELF SYMBOLISES THE 'GOD OF DEATH'.

                IN MOST OF THE FIRST HALF DAYLIGHT IS PROMINENT THROUGHOUT THE SCENES. THE BUFFALO TRAMPLES THINGS LIKE FIRE,VEGETATION,WHEELED CART,POLITICAL FLAG AND BANK. ALL THIS SEQUENCE CAN BE A REFERENCE TO MAN'S EVOLUTION AS A SOCIAL BEING AND HIS UNITY. BUT THE SECOND HALF MOSTLY FOCUSES ON NIGHT SCENES, IT SHOWS THE SPIRALLING DOWN OF MAN'S UNITY. THE 'DAYLIGHT TO DARKNESS' REFERS TO THE REVERSE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ERA AND HIS PATH TOWARDS HIS INNER BEING THAT IS 'BEAST' WITH ALL HIS SELFISH INTERESTS LIKE GREED,LUST,PRIDE,TOXIC MASCULINITY.

                FINALLY THEY CATCHES THE BULL, BUT THEY LITERALLY TURNS BLIND AND SELFISH AND TRIES TO CLAIM THEIR PART, HERE DUE TO CROWD'S MOB MENTALITY THEY BEHAVES LIKE SHEEPS. THE FINAL SCENE WHERE THE OLD MAN MEETS THE BUFFALO IS ACTUALLY A MATTER OF DEBATE. THE SCENE WERE BUFFALO'S SOUL APPEARS NEAR THE OLD MAN'S WINDOW SYMBOLISES THE ARRIVAL OF THE VEHICLE OF DEATH. THE ROPE IS USED AS A PARADOX AND HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MOVIE, ROPE REPRESENTS FREEDOM TO THE OLDMAN AND CONFINEMENT TO THE BUFFALO. THE OLDMAN USES ROPE , TO BE INDEPENDENT AND BUFFALO FREES HIMSELF FROM THE ROPE TO BE INDEPENDENT. 

                THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE UNTIL THE BUFFALO FALLS IN THE WELL HAPPENS IN VILLAGE AND OTHER AREAS CLOSE TO HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND AS THE MOVIE PROGRESS THE CHASE FURTHER DEEPS INTO JUNGLE, AS IN AWAY AND AWAY FROM CIVILIZATION, INTO DARKNESS FROM WHERE THE HUMAN EVOLUTION STARTED

                THE ONLY THINGS THAT REMAIN THE MARK OF CIVILIZATION WHEN ONCE INSIDE THE FOREST ARE TORCH LIGHTS AND CLOTHES THEY WEAR ,BUT THOSE TWO ARE LOST IN THE CLIMAX AS THEY GETS COVERED IN MUD. THERE IS ALSO A SHOT OF IMPRESSION OF ONE HUMAN LEG AND ONE BUFFALO LEG IN THE MUD AS IF SUGGESTING THAT THEY HAVE BECOME HALF THE BEAST AND ARE GOING TO BE IN THE FINAL ACT

                 WOMENS ARE NOT SHOWN TAKING PART IN THE MOB CHASE, AS DIRECTOR CLAIMED THAT WOMENS ARE SENSIBLE AND MATURED AS COMPARED TO MENS. AND MALE EGO IS THE REASON FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD. BUT HE ALSO MENTIONED INDIRECTLY THROUGH THE MOVIE THAT WOMENS WERE THE IGNITING FORCE TO THIS WAR AS THE LEAD ACTRESS IS SHOWN TO HAVE LIKING TOWARDS THE MEN WHO ARE PRAISED BY OTHERS FOR THEIR GUTS. AND IN ONE SCENE FEMALE LEAD  SOPHIE ASKS ANTONY TO BRING THE RIBS OF BUFFALO AFTER CUTTING IT REFERS TO THE EVE AND ADAM STORY FROM THE BIBLE. ADAM AND EVE STORY ITSELF REFERS TO THE START OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND INDIRECTLY REMINDS US THAT THE STORY IS GOING BACKWARDS. THE CLOCK TICKING SOUNDS IN THE BEGINNING IS ACTUALLY IN AN ANTI-CLOCKWISE DIRECTION MEANING HOW THE TIME IS RUNNING BACKWARDS FOR HUMANS

               THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS SHOWN TO BE NEGLIGENT TO THIS STATE OF UNREST UNTIL THE MOB TURNS AGAINST IT. THE POLICE VEHICLE GETS BURNED SHORTLY AFTER. EVEN THE POLICE OFFICERS TEAMS UP WITH THE MOB. THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS COULD CARE LESS AND ORDERS FRESH MEAT FOR THEM FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. THEY GET CONCERNED ONLY WHEN THE BUFFALO DESTROYS THE PLANTATIONS SURROUNDING THE CHURCH, PROBABLY MEANING THAT THEY ARE ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE WEALTH OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. THE COMPLAINT OF A FARMER IS NEGLECTED, PROBABLY ALLUDING TO THE GOVERNMENTS NEGLIGENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE FARMERS.

             IN THE ENDING CREDITS YOU CAN HEAR BREATHE OF THE OLDMAN AND BUFFALO MERGING INTO ONE LAST BREATHE, SHOWING US THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS, AND NO MATTER HOW WE SEE OURSELVES AS CIVILIZED AND SUPERIOR TO OTHER ANIMALS, BUT WE STILL ARE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF NATURE.

                THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE IN THE END IS SHOWN IN IGNITING FIRE HOWEVER AFTER SOME SECONDS IT TOO EXTINGUISH, MEANING THE END OR MAY BE THE END OF HUMANS.