Research says that when we die, we loose 21 grams… Dr Duncan MacDougall who conducted this research wanted to conclude that the soul has weight. Hence the title of this 2003 Sean Penn, Naomi Watts movie…
The movie captures the essence of the name of the movie very well and shows a variety of emotions. The movie has stories running parallel and three quarters into the movie they start connecting… A lot of instances in the movie hit me… like when Naomi Watts looses her husband & two daughters in an accident, the shivering Benicio Del Toro when he realises he has hit & killed someone with a truck, but again its just me
It’s a well written movie which the director has handled even better. The treatment of the movie - mixing shots from the past and present – is what keeps you gripped. I guess this treatment of a movie always adds a lot of anxiety among the audience and keeps you hooked on to your seat – waiting to see what happens next! There are some good performances by the actors but I don’t consider them extra ordinary… A scene worth mentioning is where Sean Penn is shot, few seconds before that and a few after it, one can hear the dialogues at a low volume in the background and there is a loud deafening noise which over shadows everything…
Every emotion of human existence be it love, hate, revenge, guilt (which are all captured in the movie) is all worth 21 grams – coz whenever we sieze to exist all of that does not matter…
