cinema that leave a mark…

I am writing this after having gone through one of the most disturbing experiences in my life which did not involve me in any sense. A movie. As simple as that, but one of the most difficult one to sit through. I have a habit of exaggerating myself into feeling too much, of another persons’ experience, well told. But anytime you watch a movie that has been adapted from a true incidence, a struggle that ends in victory inspires you. And a struggle that displays pain, bothers you, the most, like in this case it has. A true incident of a girl being tortured endlessly without reason, by the most unlike of humans around her.

Movie : An American Crime. That’s what it’s called. I would not really know what kind of an imdb rating it would fetch, for once I don’t care. It takes an exception (I really hope) for someone to behave like it has been bought out in this movie, and it takes another exception for someone to have attempted to make this movie for all to see and probably learn, oppose, protect to avoid anything such again. Suddenly the word violence has taken a new meaning. It’s a fate you will not wish for your enemy in your most sinister moment.

There are times when I have sat through conversations about cinema that brings out the craziest and scariest of fantasies, the likes of Saw (one to infinity) and their French and Japanese bothers who seem to have mastered it. I never watch them, can’t bear it. Even if I can or those who do, would somewhere have a clear understanding of it not being true. Now only if someone were to show a fact, as it happened, how will it be. And that is what An American Crime brings out. A soft and simple portrayal of a gruesome act. Its making must have been a tough act. It has the capacity of leaving a few from the cast in depression or some other trouble for sometime. It’s certainly not an effort that makes you feel like an accomplished actor as much as it makes you feel like a contributor to making people realise the need to speak up. I wonder how much help education, religion or law & order is to people if there is still a likely hood for such as exceptional act.

I may be over reacting, for there are a million crimes happening all around us of much drastic kinds, and I rarely shudder, as I have today. What worries me the most here; however, are the criminals in this case, the most unlikely of them all, children and women. The ones who stand on the better end of compassion. Or the humans who can be your neighbours. I will not be surprised if a few in man-eating tribes of the amazons traumatise over seeing something like this.

I don’t think there is any psychology that can explain this. Or if it can, it would mean these incidences are not so much of an exception. And also that education is making a few too spineless to do something about it.

You can’t give stars to a movie like this. Because that is not the point.