By Akshay
This is a simple and an almost smart movie. It is an open secret that we humans love when people console us and we overreact. This is innate in humans, in childhood when we are consoled while crying we cry all the more.
But, the main challenge fot the director Babis Makridis is to not overdo anything. As, seeking sympathy is an emotion, which if overdone looks contrived. The protagonist Giannis (Yannis Drakopoulus), a renowned lawyer comes across as a person who feels something wrong if he is happy. And he is a one who takes pleasure in the sympathetic hug due to his wistfulness. This challenge was almost successfully handled by the director.
In the scene where Giannis feels something is wrong as he isn't able to cry like before. He goes to the extreme of getting a tear gas to make himself cry. This scene is both hilarious and pathetic, hilarious for the obvious lack of logical reasoning for such an outlandish action. Pathetic because the Giannis’ misjudgement of normalcy and abnormality. This film also touches OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) in an oblique manner.
The pity surely arouses pity seeing the Giannis being desperate to consolidate the sympathy he gets. For example, the scene of buying a black suit and giving it to the laundry and pestering the neighbour to make cakes like in the days when the Giannis’ wife was in coma. Making his client recall her father’s death to not let the dust of sadness settle.
There are wide range of characters in this movie. They do their role assigned perfectly but the screenspace is eclipsed by Giannis and his drooping cheeks, leaving some well performed characters behind.
Animal lovers and especially dog lovers will have a bittersweet opinion about this movie, till the last shot. As the protagonist’s dog is the only one to escape from being the victim for the protagonist to project himself a victim.
Music is a mixed bag as, at times it sounds apt and when repeated makes a strained listening. The art department too has done a commendable work through its presence in making some symbolisms conveyed in the right manner.
The pity deserves a watch. But, due to a sloppy and farfetched last 10 minutes the rest of the duration’s effort looks wasted and forgotten. This prevents us from a calling ‘Pity’ an outstanding movie.
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