Water
I think the film Water, is my favorite film that we have watched all semester. I enjoyed that the movie was subtitled, and took place in a country whose culture is very foreign to me. The story that is being told is so emotional and I just absolutely fell in love with the little girl. I felt so sorry for the oppression that the widowed women experienced. It’s like they are basically walking dead, left to never experience love and passion from another human being. It’s sad that traditions such as keeping women so horribly oppressed still exist. I had no idea that this sort of thing happened in the world today. One of my favorite parts of this film was when the women, I think, got to celebrate color and all of them had bright beautiful color all over their faces and their stark white Saris. The colors just popped and made the scene seem happy, hopefully, and light, despite the fact that their situations are unbelievable. It is like a short escape from the life that they live and know.
Mehta did an excellent job with this film. She got her point across in such a way that the audience is left with a heavy heart and questioning the ways in which a society justifies treating women as they are in Water.