A surprising new movie leaves people shocked by the new take of a classic tale.
The classic story of revival and becoming something better than you were before comes to life in a modern story. A classic story of a Hindu tale Hanuman was transformed into Monkey Man a brutal story of death, revenge and doing anything in your power to get what you want.
Hanuman, a Hindu Mythological story about a man who resembled a monkey figure and has special powers. Many of his stories that are told are about the adventures he had but the most famous one is about when he tried to grab the sun thinking it was a mango but was stricken by the gods and lost his powers, but he eventually over comes this.
Many countries have heard the classic tale of Hanuman. But Monkey Man took a whole new approach to this tale, the movie took clips of the main characters childhood and then him in the present.
The very start of the movie is a clip the main character known as Kid and his mother and she is telling him about Hanuman and how he lost his powers which foreshadows the future of Kid.
This movie shows the themes of sadness and regret from the very beginning. You know that something traumatic happened when he was younger and left him in a unfortunate place in life. Not going into a lot of detail to not spoil the movie, but he fights his way in life physically and mentally.
The main character Kid or also known as Monkey Man was played by Dev Patel an actor famous for his role in 2010 hit tv show Skins as Anwar. Patel also had a big part of directing this movie, with him having this idea in 2018 but was delayed from Covid.
This movie had a lot of elements between the color analysis and the music throughout the whole movie really made you feel the emotions as if you were there too.
Student Gabby watched the movie when it first came out.
“The cinematography put everything together very well. The music was really good” said gabby.
This movie seems to have a lot of mixed reviews online with some saying that is was an amazing story that kept them entertained every second. Well others were saying it was to violent and they got bored with even one person saying they fell asleep.
A friend of Gabby had a different opinion on this movie.
“it was a lot of fighting and violence” Said Noah.
The fighting Monkey Man seems to have the theme of revenge shown through him fighting for what he wants. Another major theme of this movie is anger which connects with the fighting aspect of him dealing with his hurt.
The local highlands theater has put on Monkey Man for a few weeks. If your interested in the theme of revenge and a modern retelling of Hanuman and don’t mind the violence, then hurry up and see it in theaters for the best experience of the music an cinematography before its gone.