Vazhakku Enn 18/9 (Court Case Number 18/9; Tamil, 2012) I ended up watching this 2012 India's nomination for the Oscars in the foreign film category. It was recommended to me by my wife as the next best thing since sliced bread using an unknown cast. Unlike me, she never had the chance to appreciate the late 70s and 80's era of 'arty' mainstream Kollywood film shot in unglamorous villages using new plain atypical film-star faces and relatively little makeup. Films in this category would include 'Pasi', 'Nizhalgal' and 'Moodu Pani'. The way I see 18/9, this film can be divided into 3 parts. The first part showcases the daily trials and tribulations of the low-income citizens of Chennai. Every living day is another day of survival, ferociously arguing and barking at fellow human being for a piece of the dwindling pie in the material world. The second reveals the relative comfort of the prospering 'milder' mannered but shrewd and cautious...
It is all Mimesis