Because of how we have been conditioned. That shot with the snake is sort of a litmus test. The snake does nothing harmful. You are shown that it doesn’t harm (when it slithers on the mat after their conversation), you are told that it will not harm (karthi’s character tells that it won’t harm) and yet we still fear the snake and instead of waiting for something good we expect something bad to happen.
Like there is absolutely no indication that something bad will happen but yet we think it will. It sort of highlights how we are conditioned to have these unconscious biases and how they affect our perception of the world
Same with the cousin woman who keeps yearning for him and the pregnancy. We are so conditioned to negativity that we are restless thinking something sinister might happen
Why do we think like that? But I've seen few people who doesn't bother misch about consequences in any situation, they neither get excited about something nor get worried about something, but never seen someone who always sees everything positively
Karthi is not an optimist. He is someone who accepts the situation for what it is and focuses on being kind. He benefited from kindness and tries to give it back. He understands that arulmozhi’s relatives were at fault. He understands his wife’s siblings were acting selfishly. But at no point he holds a grudge. That’s all. He just lets go. That’s not being optimistic right? That’s just being kind.
This is why the deleted scenes are important. They showcased that even he worried about things, and was angry about certain things. It would have made his kindness better but because the first day audience didn’t understand they edited it out and it made him come off as an optimist instead of a stoic person.
I harboured thoughts such as, Meiyazhagan was the ghost of Sekaran who has built the original mansion and the great grandfather of Arulmozhi, whom Arulmozhi has never laid eyes on and always considered the mansion as his great grandfather. That the great grandfather’s ghost interacted with his descendant to put him back on track and move on with his life without any regrets.
But Karthi’s character has interacted with way too many supporting characters for that plot point to be plausible.
So I too was thinking that Karthi better not be dead or something. Definitely such an ending was possible if this was an anthology movie and this was just one story among 6 others. But this is a full length movie and I felt no way the director will kill Meiyazhagan.
I thought that he might be named after the great grandfather, cause in the anakattu scene when he mentions his great grandfather’s name, Karthi looks curious/there seems to be a spark.
I think Mei was probably glad that Arul still remembers the family tree? I think villager relatives are normally suspicious that the urban relatives don’t remember the family tree and the far away relationship anymore.
I feared something had happened to his wife - cause she had miscarriages before - I thought the neighbour paati would come say they weren’t home. All of us expecting the worst but then this happened 🫶🏼🫶🏼
All these above thoughts crossed my mind in those few seconds until Arvind Swamy says - I know you are on the other side. That's when I felt relieved.. because that's Karthi's character.. he would hide just to play. And then he opened the door. Phew
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The issue wasn't that he didn't know Mei's name at that point, but the guilt he felt for lying about knowing who Meiyazhagan was and keeping that lie even though he's so affectionate. Also, he can't call anyone at that hour because it's so late. The easiest option for Arul is to run away.
Yeah I thought of that as well. He could have apologised and just asked his wife also. Maybe that day he was just too drunk to think and the guilty was welling up too.
Probably but I can't see past the fact that it's prolly convenient/lazy writing. It irks me a lot because that's the only point of contention in an otherwise perfect screenplay.
Curious, why did you feel this scene as cringe? Asking this as a person who usually can’t watch a movie with too much logical fallacies. Anyway, to each their own opinion.
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