The French movie Cache
is pretty interesting and strange at the same time for its capacity to drag the
spectators in the question of being watched. The movie begins from a video tape
and it continues along with the pace of the story line. Most of the ideas and
the plots are unfolded through the video tape.
The characters are
never getting rid of the problems created by the visuals in the video tape
captured on their day to day life. There is s story synced with the childhood
days of the protagonist who is at present working in a broadcasting company.
The drawing along with the video tape is terrific because of its hideousness
created by the blood sprinkles through the mouth of a boy and the neck of a
rooster one by one with each video tape. This makes a kind of mystery behind
the life of the protagonist.
Role of the video tape
is important in the movie that it carries out the role of a character or a
spectator there within the story. There is a presence of an eye of the camera
other than the main film camera which captures the plotline. The intermittent
appearance of the video makes the audience doubt the actual narration of the
narrative because often the story and the characters are emerging from the
video tape played on the television.
Most of the times the vision get tricked by the role of the video played on the
television. The spectator never knows which is reality unless the replay is
played or the conversation by the other characters are represented. The presence
of vision inside the filmic narration is highly synced that the audience will
never understand whether the past or present of the protagonist is taped and
played.
The idea of being
watched by someone else is a striking idea in this film. Though the protagonist
goes after the unknown delivery of the video tape, he fails to solve the
riddle. The man whom he known from the childhood has been blamed for the video
tape and the narration goes through the examination of the protagonist’s
childhood and suspects the man who had to suffer because of the protagonist’s
lie when he was at the age of six. But the issue is not solved yet. The man who
was blamed invites the protagonist and cuts his throat by himself to death.
Before he makes the ‘event’ he explains his unawareness on the video tape.
The movie ends with the
projection of a vision that takes us to the pastness of the protagonist while
he is sleeping. It could be his dream, what else it could be other than another
visual trajectory?
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