Karthik Subbaraj’s ‘Jigarthanda DoubleX’ is a beautiful love letter to cinema and to Nature

There are two kinds of “shooting” in Karthik Subbaraj’s new movie: the kind you do with the gun, and the kind you do with a movie camera. At one point, there’s a standoff between these two kinds of shooting: a man points his gun at a man who points a camera back at him. is not about which man “wins”. But if you have seen Part 1, I don’t think you’ll be surprised to learn what this film’s message is. It’s this: . And the beauty – the real beauty – of this message is that it is not presented as a stagy speech, or as mere words. It is presented as… a piece of cinema. It is played out on a big screen, as a film within a film. If the message is about the medium, this medium is how the message is conveyed. The meta-ness is exhilarating.

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