Review of Breathe

Breathe (2018)
3/10
Technically good but the story gives a horrendous message
4 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Some good things - The series was technically good. Direction, camera and sound-effects etc were exceptionally good. The episodes were engaging too, they were successful in keeping me longing to know what would next happen in the story. Acting performances and the cast was good as well.

Logical flaws -

1.)The story lacked authenticity in terms of rationality. It was bizarre to see that the serial killer could find such deserted areas in the middle of the densely populated city of Mumbai, where he moved about without others noticing him or getting caught in cctv footages.

2.)The lover of the killer whom he kills in the middle of a buzzing road, out of instant rage was monstrously downplayed in the further part of the story. It was nearly unbelievable that the crime-branch could not get the info about the woman(whom he dated apparently not very discretely) got killed so easily in public, unnoticed. And this happened at a time when the killer was in the crime-branch radar continuously. The woman was even known to the family of the killer, also importantly she was the doctor of his kid as initially shown. Still, there was never a funeral or anything after her death shown, nor the crime-branch could get any info about these events.

3.)The point 2 could be let gone, given that Mumbai was a big city and maybe the death of the woman would have been reported to some other police station or something. But, all the other murders that the killer does of the organ donors, get reported to the same crime branch folks, very much in sequence. And the pattern of the organ donors is cracked by the crime branch. Nevertheless, the poor folks couldn't even find out the woman , who was his son's doctor, whom he was dating publicly, and who even managed to find out that he was behind the killings of the donors.

Atrocious and monstrous message given to the public -

The last episode was the biggest spoiler for me. The killer was actually glorified and depicted as a good father who tried to save his kid by committing some forgivable sins. I was always under the impression that killer would be stamped a psychopath(which he was by all means) in the end, and would be demonised to such an extent that even for his kid , he would become a disturbing memory. He did heinous, gruesome and ruthless crimes, to innocent people(people who even had pledged their organs). He even killed the woman who loved him and dreamed of a life with him, since she had found out about the killings. That anti-social monster was glorified as a good father who tried to save his child. A child who was dying of a natural disease and was not getting an organ donor in time. Is it only me to whom the this glorification seems utterly grotesque and morbid? Is it a reflection of the prevalent society in which people are able to care or love only their own children or family? The killer developed a misanthropist attitude to society in which majority people are not pledging their organs. He has no apathy towards humans in general, whose lives he destroyed, all he cared was about his own kid, his own little family. He is in all manner a sheer psychopath, who should have been portrayed as one. Instead, the last few scenes of the episode showed how much he loved his kid. Maybe this is how our society is at present, where people only love their own possessions, living or non-living , and have nothing but apathy for everything else.

A dire message for organ donors? -

If this was meant to be a message for more people to come ahead and pledge their organs, I think it is lame. A good cause should never come out by ways of intimidation, it should come out of conviction by reasoning and compassion.
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