MOWGLI (REVIEW) BY JODEKSS

Review of MOWGLI (2018)

By Jodekss Gloatkenf

Is it a very captivating and adventurous tale you want to see? Or is it a very action-packed, matured and yet juvenile wild-life movie you have been longing for? MOWGLI, is, in my opinion, the astoundingly and melodramatically blend of these gripping tastes. It is based on the stories of Rudyard Kipling. The epic tale is reloaded with themes of affection, brotherhood, love, friendship, commitment, laws and orders, leadership, followership, survival, sport, death, selfishness, hate/anger, barbarism just to mention few; focusing on the main characters, the protagonist and the antagonist: the man cob –Mowgli and the tiger –Shere Khan, respectively. The setting of this charming piece of movie is the wild which then qualifies it as an adventurous one. It is exaggerated as the lower animals are made to mien their mouths communicating in man’s tongue to suit the understanding of any audience.
It began with the scene of the Shere Khan, tearing apart humans running about in kilter in the wilderness, feeding on them for fun. There he goes as he chases a woman with her little baby alongside. He kills her and feeds on her. The baby, Mowgli, gets saved by fate by a pack of wolves. He is being protected and trained in their wolf ways. But yet Shere khan, the antagonist would not give up haunting his blood for a lick. The protagonist and the pack of wolves get it wrong at a point due to the persistent threats of Shere Khan and humans hunting them down too. The doomed young boy has to escape through the tearing claws of death into the village close by. The continued menace of Shere Khan and the sense of responsibility inherent in Mowgli, which make him fateful for the jungle, spur him to assist the pack of wolves, alongside other animals in other to help to sustain the wild. In order for that to be, Shere Khan has got to go down by the hands of the young Mowgli.
Mowgli is one little boy who is being nurtured by the pack of wolves, the bear – Baloo, the jaguar – Akela and others with the orientations, he is a wolf as well. These make him enroll with the other wolves in doing their activities. But other wolves later begin to discriminate. He is very playful. He is honest and loves brotherhood with other animals. The tiger is the villain. He is the poison that kills and wants to the more at any cost. He is very cunning and determined. He is the selfish devil that has to go down for good. Akela is the first to come across the man cob after his mother has been pierced by the tiger’s shining claws. Akela has immense ardour for Mowgli. He stands by him when none is there again; although, at a point, he comes with a vivid difference against Mowgli under intense fears, for the survival of the pack and the wild. Baloo teaches the main character the laws of the land. He acts like his tutor or coach on the ways around and out in the wild.  The kind of love and care shown Mowgli are what bring about the needed awakening in Mowgli, when he is with the villagers; from that climax, he fights strong and wins from a man cob into the king of the jungle.
The half part of the movie is in the wild with Mowgli while the rest was a mix of both of the wild and the villager. However, it was confusing that the hunter who helps Mowgli to blend into the norm of the villagers, Mowgli later leads to his demise because of a later prior revelation. I, though, believe it is karma at work which would always provide balance for each individual character in the end. The dialect or diction, an average viewer would understand. Nonetheless, there are wild actions which might scare young audiences. A few parts compel strong emotion of pity while another brighten up the audience. I think it is a wonderful dramatic counterbalance. I was left unmoved by this movie and I would highly recommend it.

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