The Invisible Life : Karim Aïnouz

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I couldn't follow any cinematic aspects but only stick to the gravitational pulling of the narrative line of  Karim Aïnouz's The Invisible Life. If one have a unflinching and gritty story to tell and the actors caged in the characters with  fine balance then the movie will be a real conqueror of the audiences.

Loss and hope are the sides of a coin. One can't flip it and get the right side by choice. Life doesn't give the damn chance. Guida's slumbering that Euridce celebrated pianist in Austria. Similarly Euridce was in fever dream thinking Guida in Greece. Both were living in the same city and try to swip their country. 


I was in pensive mood that it's realy a true thing we can't think over or even notice that how much parts of the life of my next door person I know? My life is invisible to them. Their lives are disappeared to me. Then think about the whole world at once. You will find that we are truely living a vanished lives to each other. 

As per my knowledge The Invisible Life is one of top ten movies dealt with feminism with a large extent. The world is not fit evenly and educated enough to accept the women as they are. All the women in the world are living a vanished life. Men are living instead of theirs. They have snatched the women's free spirits. In the midst of crowd, women are all alone and that part is mostly hard.

The movie also paves a way to think over the notion of family and human bonding. Guida's eviction by her dad,   the abandonment of  her boy at the maternity ward but her buildingof  a new life and of a new family with Filomena put a question mark to what is a family?

When Euridce got the decades' old unread letters and started to read, I felt a thick wetness in my throat and a slight treambling on my eyelashes. 



The Invisible Life  [2019]

(Portuguese: A Vida Invisível)

 Karim Aïnouz 

Portuguese,  Brazil

Author: Martha Batalha.

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