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The spotlight of Operation Java is on Anthony George (Balu Varghese) and Vinaya Dasan (Lukman). They are youngsters with a fantastic education; and they are great with computers. Computers are their thing. But they have been unable to get a job and so they’re out to just prove something to the world (if not the world, at least to themselves). They need to show that they are not as worthless as the people around them seem to think that they are.
So, they hang around a cyber cell of the Kerala State Police Department. We get a series of cases and each one is about a cyber crime. It’s like a multi-episode binge watch, very similar to the series Law and Order, where, in each episode, a crime is committed and solved by detectives who jump in and track clues to find the killer.
All these cases are lent a uniform, yet different, look by the cinematographer Faiz Siddik. It’s not easy to make five very different cases kind of look similar in and a two-and-a-half hour film. Editor Nishadh Yusuf also does a marvelous job of balancing the sharp cuts with long moments when emotions need to linger.
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tonks
June 8, 2021
Just watched this movie yesterday and would love to discuss it.
What was most poignant to me was the heart rending trith of lakhs of engineering grads from small towns in Kerala failing to get a job because of lack of spoken English. My brother has been in charge of recruitment in a software firm, and he had admitted that their team rejected many engineering grads in Kerala solely because their communication skills were not good. A tragedy, in my opinion, that this is how companies in India work.
I found the sentimentality at the very end a little off putting, in an otherwise brilliant movie. Also, I heard the opinion that the movie did not use its women characters that well. When Vinaya Dasan (is that a tip to the famous Dasan and Vinayan slueth duo of past movie fame) tells the daughter about his sister’s death instead of just telling her to support her mom, it would be nice if he had also said that one video like that does not matter, does not shame her mother (which is what his sister should have been told, too).
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tonks
June 8, 2021
Why are there no comments here? This is such an under rated movie, that unfortunately is not there in Netflix or Prime.
Also, in my opinion, the video review lacks the depth and the detailing of the written one.
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Karthik
June 28, 2021
Tonks: I really liked this movie. There was such a low-key ness to everything but still it was riveting. The style felt very similar to “Action Hero Biju” which also I really liked. I do agree with the criticism about the lack of emphasis on female characters (which is true of both films actually). I agree that the sub plot with the video was a bit shoddily written and felt like the sentimentality was force fitted.
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