2018: A Review

 '2018' movie was expected to be an emotional survival story, a story of truimph against all odds. It was all that and more. For anyone who has lived through the kerala floods of 2018, for anyone who had watched the events movie. A technically sound, well paced, thoughtfully crafted film, '2018' is a cinematic experience keralites deserve. After all, it's their story.

The story stars in a village aruvikkulam, where we meet a lot of people with their petty quarrels. Among them is a youngster who left the army fake medical certificate, played by tovino. We get to see their ordinary lives and later in Sharp contrast, how it gets overturned because of the flood. The absolute horror and the helplessness one feels when water goes up to the roof of their house is depicted well and jude Anthony Joseph succeeds in doing justice to the sufferings, desperation and pain of thousands While the first half was comparatively calm, it was the calm before the Strom that was the second half. The fishermen and their rescue efforts,the locals and the help they provided, the helicopter rescue, almost everything that we remember from the times, has found a place and these moments we're well executed.

Tovino,Asif Ali, Lal Indrans, Sudheesh, Narein, Kunchako Boban, Thanvi Ram each of them has done justice to their roles.

Fathimath Fidha 

III BA Functional English