Psychopathic and Insanely mad

A horribly boring day is how I might have seen it starting. Just the same things to do today as yesterday. I have been jobless now for a bit and thought a good old film might just do the trick in making it all that bad to pass the hot summer day out. Rummaged through what the options were and set my eyes on SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS.

Wasn't too sure about the film and hadn't checked IMDB about it... infact I always thought it a terrible idea to be reading IMDB before seeing a film. So here I was on a hot Sunday afternoon watching Seven Psychopaths.

The info - it stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken. It's been directed by Martin McDonagh, the same guy who directed In Bruges... And yeah that is the most I can give you about the info, you can google the rest and I know you will. I would suggest if you were to google the film it would still do no justice to the experience of watching the film.

The film is a dark British humour film and one cannot take away from the way the Brits love their dialogues. The imagery of British dialogues can only be demonstrated by a line quite earlier in the film. When Billy played by Sam Rockwell tells Marty played by Collin Farrell - "I wasn't trying to break his nose. His nose was just in the middle of what I was punching."

The film has a lot of dialogues but also has quite a bit of action to back the dialogues. Whats most interesting is that it kept me asking what is going to happen next. And inspite of the terrible Chennai summer heat and really nothing much to do I caught myself being transported into a world where they spoke English with an Irish and American accents, with British humour and set in LA. Whats best is the parallel plots that don't confuse as much as keep you guessing through out whats going to happen next. Whats also really cool is the way they use film imagery to describe sequences in Marty's film. At the end Marty has a film but that does not put an end to his troubles, but what happens is a transformation in Marty's life.

And that is what the film is about transformation, in between everything else that happens. On the surface it explains as to why its called Seven Psychopaths but when you look longer and deeper its actually about transformation. In fact the psychopaths seemed to have a very strong sense of conviction and integrity in the film which makes me wonder that the psychopath is in everyone of us. In different times and different situations I guess we all end up like psychopaths.

Watch the film. I would recommend it. Though I haven't seen In Bruges, now I definitely would like to see the film.