2013 · thriller · crime · malayalam
Drishyam
Directed by Jeethu Joseph2h 44m2013
Georgekutty lives a happy life with his wife and daughters. Things take a turn when his daughter gets indecently filmed using a hidden camera, by the son of a police inspector.
Our read: Drishyam (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · malayalam entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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