180696 180696 Water is a movie about widows that don't really try to escape being a widow or get remarried but one woman thought it was right and she should be able to get remarried. I think this movie is trying to tell us that if you truly believe it is right, and try, it can be achieved. This is kind of like living up to your own worldview. One example of someone living up to their worldview is when one widow wanted to get married and all the other widows wanted to stop her because they believed it would curse them. She fought through them and was able to take down the peer pressure because she truly loved that man. Her whole community was against her but she still was able to go for what she believed was right. Chuyia (the little girl) also showed how she tried to fight for her worldview because when she announced that one of the widows were going to get married, one of the older widows said she couldn't. Chuyia started stepping harshly on the older widow which shows how she was standing for what she believed was right. A final example of a widow trying to what she believes is right is when Didi takes the key from the elderly widow who locked up the widow that wanted to get married. She freed the widow so she could get married, but she knew this would make many have no respect for her. Overall many people in this movie did what they truly believed was the right thing to do in their situation, and some went beyond Gods commandments, not sure if God would be okay with it but it was her worldview and she thought it was true.Arc of Movie: This movie talked about a young widow (around 7 years old) being taken to a widow house with many other widows. She meets a widow named Kalyani who meets a man and wants to marry this man. Other widows say if she marries this man she will get cursed. Kalyani commits suicide and another widow doesn't want Chuyia (the little girl) to live with the other widows in their sad life so she gave Chuyia to the handsome man that Kalyani wanted to marry, when he was on a train with Gandhi.

Ersbel Oraph Such a wasted opportunity!Such potential!All wasted on a cheap love story. With a ethnic backdrop. A bleached backdrop.You have a prepuber girl at the end of life. Already been married, buried a husband and now awaits death together with other women, both old and young, but not that young. And this drama is dulled with images of child games.In the 21st century you still have group rape, yet the pariah can move around freely. The women are poor, but not that poor. Nobody is starving. The atrocious scenes where they burn the dead bodies are idealized with candle lights and night on the river. The stench and body parts are nowhere to be sensed.It took me almost one hour to notice this is a themed soap opera. Where people are clean and shampoo daily. Where everything is deodorized and gods are left untouched. It's not about religion turning people into beasts, it's about helping a poor soul in a sea of sorrow. Disgusting!It could have been a clean love story. Life in a Metro type. At the end I was grateful for not having the happy singing and dancing that goes in almost every Indian movie. But having every scene with at least two large swastikas made even that ray of light vanish. I lied. After less than a hour and a half they start singing, dancing and smiling.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Rishad I'd been meaning to watch this one for a while now, as the final chapter to the Elements Trilogy by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. Like "Earth", this film is set in pre-Liberation Colonial India. The background tensions of political struggles, class uprising and the clash of the very modern and the very ancient set the stage for a story of friendship, forbidden love, and human frailty.After losing her husband (by arranged marriage) to illness, 8-year-old Chuyia is forced to live in an ashram for widows, run by a cruel matriarch. She befriends Kalyani, a beautiful widow who is also under the control of the matriarch, and has been forced to become a prostitute. Into their lives comes a rich young lawyer whom they meet one day by the river, after which their lives are forever changed.Cinematography, screenplay, theme music (with excellent work by A.R. Rahman), and other production values are impeccable, and the film itself is a feast for the eyes. I can usually hold it together pretty well watching highly dramatic, emotional films, but this one was a close call. No spoilers, but keep the Kleenex handy ...

user-550-274813 This film Water, directed by Deepa Mehta is one of the most touching film I have ever seen. Filled with many cultural and religious insights, this film has a very interesting plot, with characters from an ashram ( a house for widows). With the arrival of the main character, seven year-old widow Chuyia, other widows question their lives and begin to doubt the traditions of their religion. She is separated from her parents, her hair is shaved off and she is only allowed to wear white clothing. According to the Hindu traditions since woman have to be devoted to the husband, when the husband dies the wife either dies with him or lives a life of self-denial. In this film when Chuyia's auntie (Patiraji) was dying in the ashram, a widow asked Chuyia to fetch some water from the Holy river. This clarifies that they believe the water of the Ganges River is holy. I enjoyed the fact that romance between Kalyani and Narayan was part of the plot, making the film so much more emotional. Overall this film exemplifies a great image of the life of an Indian widow in the 1930s. Especially followed by the rising figure Ghandi, the end of the film clearly convey the fact that many people in India, not only widows believe that 'Ghandi is one of the few people on Earth who speaks for his conscience.' This quote shows that there are very few people in the world who like Ghandi speaks for the people and speaks for what he truly believes in. I think that Deepa Mehta sent out a great message out through this film that sometimes religions can cause a very unfair life. Sometimes trusting your conscience and bending the rules will lead to a much better and joyful life.