It took me some time but I am glad that I watched this film. This is the stuff to be cherished in a DVD collection.

It has ORGANIC, INDIGENOUS & VISCERAL written all over it. Much has been said about the film. The film deserves more resounding applause because of the courage and non-attempt to be perfect.

I would like to add that it worked for me perfectly at the Eclipse scene. It is at that point that it becomes a classic. Just one scene. May be it is a combination of the brewing undercurrent of the basic human emotions that rise like a high tide, or it’s the underplay of mercy, in the film maker’s POV, something that refuses to sympathesize with all the visibly disturbing scenes of atrocity. The success of the film, and like no other in its genre (Powerful scenes, edited like a man, can be put into the league of New World, The Thin Red Line, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now.), lies in its successful transition from Macro to Micro, from dealing with a holistic view of a civilization as it goes through its rise and fall to the small but harrowing tribulations a deserted family goes through. It is through Jaguar Paw’s perspective that the film achieves it wonderfully respectable stature. If not the best, it IS one of the best films to have been made in recent times of ‘cinema without balls’.