The movie “anbae
sivam”(“love is god”) said to be spanned around the Marxist axis of rotation
and which reflects the personal views of the actor kamal hasan on atheism is
taken in a critical ritual here..Or to say a parallax view..!!
Messianic complex:
The initial
scenes portray the nationalism of anbarasu and his fantasy of a savior, a kind
of messianic complex. While it introduces the concept of the messianic complex,
traversing the film, we could find a lack in the messianic role and the role is
supposed to be occupied by nalla and which provokes anxiety reactions throughout
the film passing from aras to nalla.
Racism:
The character
aras is located in the discourse of the university, with the capitalism shown
as master. But the film accuses the aras as the agent of west from the words of
nalla, but this is again a reenactment of racist fantasy, a clash of fantasies and
which could be seen as the reaction of capitalism and thus the one who speaks
against the capitalism itself is caught into the web of capitalism itself, but
yet this provokes another response that capitalistic ideals as shifted from
west and it misses an inherent capitalistic domination within the country, but
which is also shown as the one against which the character nalla fights as
portrayed by the fight between character of nassar and nalla.
God for nalla:
The god of
nalla stems from the reaction against the inferiority complex and the ideals of
love and kindness,the distorted view of nalla, fragmented body vs complete body.The
kindness and love aspects,which nalla calls god-“that which serves as a
function against fragmentation”-which is depicted in the last scene of the
movie,where someone who had came to fragment kamal changed his mind and nalla said
him as god-this love is what madhavan lacks in the plot-the film stresses on
the sliding of aras to nallas reading of the love, or what he called god, thus
again proclaiming kamal as messiah. Again this is the reading of the god from
the theistic prespective, whereby the god is seen as the protector and the one
who completes. The film again theorizes the All, which is anyways impossible.
A feminist analysis:
The lady artist and the
characteristics she possess-again the role of gender activity, that breaking
being a female means symbolically shifting to the domain of the adoption of men
in women-male chauvinistic expression.
Heroism?/communism?
: nalla as a vanishing mediator:
The film
though claims to portray the elements of communism, still bound to the
capitalistic mesh. The fight between the nalla,the communist leader and nasar,
the capitalist is more in a heroic way rather than in a class oriented way. The
story narrates the function of love between the daughter of nasar and nalla, the
fights between nalla and nasar,a typical characteristic of hero as shown by the
otto ranks formula in analyzing moses and monotheism. Moreover at the moment
where nasar tells his daughter that nalla is dead, the character nalla plays a
real death in the mind of the lover of nalla, but which is again put into risk
by the nalla, like raising from dead,but nalla acts as a vanishing mediator by
remaining in the position of the real death in the mind of his old lover, while
he is again suffering a symbolic death from aras, who wish to have nalla as the
brother and the character nalla is almost dead. But the master(nasar) is put
into the risk to conceal the live condition of nalla to his daughter. While kamal is showm to have made aras to
realize the “god”, yet the aras is a slave or hysteric of the master discourse,
the daughter of nalla as again put into the masters discourse and nalla
vanishing from them.,which gives the character nalla, a feel of magnificient
beauty and admiration, as the character march towards death. Hence it stresses
on a particular character as messianic. Moreover the methodology used by nalla
to “sacrifice” his existence for the workers well being make him a “messia” and
finally the methodology is a parsimony, but the communism is not that, which
relies on the struggle of analyst against master, but here it is not so and
hence the film ends more in the tone of a typical heroic or messianic story.
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