"Poetic justice - Think: "What comes around goes around." In its purest form, poetic justice is when one character plots to undermine another and then ends up caught in his own trap" - quoted from contemporarylit.about.com
I watched a movie titled Cycle recently and it sort of touched me in its simplicity and presentation. The movie is based on the theme of Poetic Justice, where a honest god fearing man is cheated out of his life long savings by the villain within the first ten minutes itself. What ensues is one and half hours of different characters being woven into the plot, how the money at the end returns to the man and his family and the villain falls prey to the same situation the honest man had faced.
In an era of Matrix's, Aniyan's, Ghajini, etc its so nice to be able to watch a simple movie where surprise surprise, the end is the most predictable one and not something that had the outer realms woven in or the CIA involved and god knows what....... :)
I kinda miss those Amol Palekar Movies where the stories were simple, and the subtleties of dialogue were the highlight. Simple scenes where offering tea to a guest at home, didnt involve the "Bahu or Saas" wearing designer bindi's and saree's :)
There was a movie during my college days which was based on a revolutionary son and a traditional father and their intellectual clashes. At the peak of the movie, the son demands for his child to be returned to him as he doesn't want the grand-child to grow up with the constricted traditional thoughts of the father. The father turns back at that moment and tells the son " But i never demanded that my son be the replica of me, i always gave him a freedom to choose, in thought and in action." The irony of the situation, touched many among the audience then.
Well, it was a lovely change to watch a movie which very like all my first story books, all the fairy tales where everything is black and white - Good meets good and at the end evil shall be destroyed......
