Sunday, December 26, 2010

Portraits in the sea of lies


The suvarna chakoram winner film of IFFK 2010, directed by Carlos Gaviria, one of the famous Latin American director. The all movie deals the internal calamity of Colombia.
It is produced in the time of internal riot in Colombia. Carlos directed it as a road movie. He tries to reveal the complexity and struggles of Colombians.
He used to tell the story with two character’s life struggle. Marina and her cousin Jayroe are the two main characters in this movie. Marina’s grandfather died, so she compelled to travel to her homeland. Her cousin insists to leave Bayotta the capital city of Colombia. They planned to travel.
Through out the traveling they face so many problems like military checking, and assault of republicans. Marina is the central character in the movie. Through her eyes, director reveals the problems of a Colombian. Jayroe is bachelor and he did not give any important to anything. He used photography as his profession. And he wanted to be a great fashion photographer. Jayroe indulge in his own happiness avoiding Miyage. It was given great pain to Maria. She defenses all the bad habits of Jayroe with her silence.
It is a great road movie which is dealing the internal politics in a proper manner.

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