Trance movie review: A gripping, abstract movie that relies heavily on it's technical aesthetics.

This movie had its own flaws, but definitely deserves to be watched. The editing, the screenplay, the audio, the visuals, and basically the technical aspect of this movie were literally so visually appealing (stunning maybe?).

The first half of the movie promised so much with the storytelling by showing all these minor issues which formed one huge problem. Then it kinda started to lose its grip and its pace in the second half, and tries to make up for these missing elements with even more stunning visuals and angles, which worked better at some times more than others. For example, the scenes of the murder and the accident were slowed down a LOT, and a lot of colors and details were shown. Very aesthetically pleasing for a murder. But when Faahadh was on stage during the fest, the dramatic moments were slowed down to the point that I cared more for the story than the visual aesthetic.

As you can see in the images above (all credit goes to youtube: Muzik247), the visuals look quite abstract and eye-catching when compared to your average movie. But this kinda gets to the point where it's distracting from the actual movie. But in one of the fight scenes (the scene in pictures 1 and 3), it looked very cool, and my attention was completely on screen. I never saw such a fight scene before, and it wasn't the fight that caught my eye. It was all the craziness going on around it.

(Fun fact: I was watching these bright visuals at midnight, and it wasn't a very pleasing experience to my eyes, so I suggest watching this movie either in theatres or in the evening.)

There was one thing that stood out to me in the movie, and that was a little aesthetic fish that was shown as a transition between shots. When Fahadh was a half madman near the interval, a white fish was shown turning around and being red on the other side. Close to the end, when Fahadh was fully crazy, the other side of the red fish was fully red, with no trace of white. I wonder how the fish felt, witnessing all that craziness and only being able to just sit in a bowl and do nothing.

This is the fish I was referring to (Courtesy: Youtube)

Halfway through the movie, I started wondering about where Fahadh's character was going. Was he someone who lost himself while spreading the name of god? Or was he just a normal man who lost himself to a couple of frauds?