my take : SHIP OF THESEUS

If parts of a ship is replaced bit-by-bit during the course of it's journey, is it still the same ship? 

OR if another ship is built from the discarded parts, which of the either two is the real ship of theseus?

This is the analogy used in the film and comes as a prologue at the starting of the film. It's a film with full of questions, Questions about how we live our life, morality, conscience, ethical dilemma, inspiration, passion and most importantly are we humane? and there lies our life that transcends through these questions.

It might take a life long journey to get an answer for lot of these and many questions that we face, but is it worth even pursuing for an answer? or should we just live our lives like knuckleheads?

It's a film that never gave an attempt to answers and be judgemental, rather it is the prosecutor and defendant leaving the judgement to all of us audience. It is true reflection of what cinema should be, a reflection of us as a society and as humans. I am paraphrasing John Lennon here - 

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all -- John Lennon

It's not a film that don't give you everything easily, you need to have patience and willingness to think and listen attentively to each characters. If you are ready to make that investment, you will be sure of awarded with such an emotional and intellectual experience that you remember for a long time.

The film is a three separate stories explained through a blind photographer who loses her intuition and inspiration after getting her eye sight back, a monk who fights against animal testing in companies faces an ethical dilemma whether to take a life saving medicine after being diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. A stock broker and a recipient of a donated kidney, encounters a poor man whose kidney is illegally stolen and obsessed about bringing justice. A special mention to the insightful gem of conversation between the monk and the young lawyer is particularly engaging. 

All three stories converge in what is the poetic climax that left me numb for a while. Though, the surface of it seems like a plain organ donation, but it makes a lot of sense in the context of human paradigm when all the discarded parts of our body after death help another person to live.

Ship of Theseus is one such a film that made me proud after coming out of theatre. I feel privileged that I got a chance to see the film and probably might end up talking about it for the rest of my life. 

Do yourself a favour and watch it when it is in theatres.