(2005)
| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Human Wrongs
Slow-moving essay on widows’ lack of human rights in pre-partition British India – a problem still extant today.
Interestingly, water is used as a metaphor for both spiritual cleanliness and ethical uncleanliness in its being used for communal, ritual cleansing - with strangers. An analogy is also made between removing the British Raj with Passive Resistance and changes in their own – often hideously-discriminatory - Hindu culture.
The movie concludes, correctly, that the only real freedom comes from within - as well as from the courage to recognize this simple fact. Where the film falls down somewhat is in its preference for arrestingly-photographed images over thematic content.
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