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So everyone here knows what an FRS is right? Right?
+2: No narration and we all sigh in relief
-3: Movie begins with a statue by a lake in Kodaikanal,the statue has so much of the art department’s fingerprints on it that none will mistake it for a real statue. Small fail.
-45: Oho so killer in this movie will wear Charlie Chaplin mask.
Exclusive extract of excruciating moments from the story discussion room
“Sir, apparently clowns are very scary, in US and all, children get scared by seeing clowns, they have also made movie based on it recently”
“We should also have clown face villain to creep out audience”
“People will find out…”
“Oh then what’s next to clown…maybe we should try Charlie Chaplin”
“Wow, done deal”
“Let’s also add one yellow umbrella so that it becomes very iconic”
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Sorry but lol, we could never associate any kind of fear with the Chaplin Killer, no the music also was not helping, sorry. Also he has a yellow umbrella like a CSK fan and so anyone in Kodai should have spotted him by now.
-32: Movie is set in Kodaikanal types just because our characters can wear sweaters. Yeah please there are lakes all around Chennai, please summa don’t say lakes and all.
Also also, we can see this trend in which Amazon is picking up tamil movies for release, both Ponmagal Vandhal and Penguin has the following
✅Female protagonist
✅Movie location is hilltop town
✅Murder and kidnapping involving children
✅Drone shot over car, lake and mountain
✅Sweater people and mist
So if you’re writing and selling to Amazon, have the above somewhere in mind.
+23: One guy (not telling who) will do one morning call for ten minutes to tell what happened in the life of KeeSu so that audience can catch up, this is also aided by some photographs etc
-23: for that 20 minute intro call, KeeSu will reply with just “miss you too” #hmmzoned
-80: Heroine goes into flashback mode suddenly so that we can know exactly the things that we need to know to progress with the movie.
-71.2: Heroine will rapidly tell a penguin story to her kid, so rapid that we are sure that the kid didn’t follow, we were not sure if we should follow it ourselves, later we got to know that it’s not the full story even, then why so speed?
-11:Heroine then comeback to “present day” because someone call her name cliche
+34: Lady doctor gives good advice about pregnancy but of course none of this will be followed by our heroine, points for timely advice being timely.
+101: Understanding husband is too much understanding
-53: Kodai police are not going to like this film, especially when the inspector seems to have made the right connection at first.
-56.9: If it is a slasher film involving a kid, then two definite elements will be there. One kid will be allowed to draw random things and characters will get puzzled over this, also said kid will sing some nursery rhyme.
Supposedly all this is fresh and spooky.
-23: Something something happens and we suddenly see ourselves watching Silence of the Lambs, no we mean not that movie within this movie, but something like that. Out of the blue surprise.
-42: Movie really doesn’t progress beyond a set of characters and since the main slasher is also Charlie Chaplin costumed, most of the genre trappings like setting, sound design and the misty cinematography are not effective.
So we know where they are going, before they get going.
Also then they say the movie is about motherhood. Yeah, another addition to our hill-top horror series of films which has been giving diminishing returns. Yeah.
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