dear life 78
Dear life,
these are my reflections on the movie "water", if you haven't seen it yet, i suggest you do to see how you are so hard for some in some corners of the world.
In a two-hour voyage to the land of mysteries and mystics, currents of water took us to witness the lives of people who suffer inhumane conditions, women who does not have the power - or maybe the will - to change those conditions, and women who will. Alongside currents of a sacred river that has for ages offered its waves as the bed to the joy of marriage, the sorrow of death, and to the song of loneliness, people live lives rooted in beliefs and rituals that are sometimes entangled with the atrocities of those in power. Among them, the female kind is the weaker kind, the kind whose destiny is shaped not only by those in power but by the male only in power with them, and then there is the weakest kind, the girls who face the bitterness of enforced life before they taste the sweetness of childhood. And then there are the few who will to face all hardships because they still have the flame of life burning inside them; those are the ones who dare to dream and to change. Withstanding all the storms, they swim to the very depth of the currents of life, happy that they have had the opportunity of feeling, really feeling what it means to love and be loved, what it means to be free with one's heart and soul and to change. Those who dare to open up are bathed with the real sacred waters, and in their bathing, they splash drops here and there on those around. And the people who have tasted the true taste of the purified water of life will not go back to taste anything less; they won't settle for less than the sacred waters; they too will enjoy the lightness of a joyful heart.
"Water" brings to the screen the story of a little joyous girl whose life is the extreme manifestation of traditions that cause some to suffer misery and loss. The little girl who is forced to live in a house of widows when she loses her husband, whom she remembers nothing of marrying to, expect the sweets of her wedding night, is not defeated and does not lose hope, but rather with her courage and liveliness, and with the compassion of her newly-found friend, brings change to the devastated group of widows surrounded by walls of social physical and mental poverty. The story of our little girl is intertwined with the love story of her friend, a young widow who has no right to life but to be a prostitute to bring money to the house, but whose life is changed forever with the pure love of a man. Although the love story is not a happy-ending one, "water" helps us accept it with a soft transition to the other side of the story, the story of a nation finding new hope and courage through the words of a new leader, Gandhi. The little girl who came to a house of aging widows under the shadow of sadness brought life to them and they in turn gave her back to life as they let her loose into the currents of a revolution that changed the beliefs and history of a whole nation.
these are my reflections on the movie "water", if you haven't seen it yet, i suggest you do to see how you are so hard for some in some corners of the world.
In a two-hour voyage to the land of mysteries and mystics, currents of water took us to witness the lives of people who suffer inhumane conditions, women who does not have the power - or maybe the will - to change those conditions, and women who will. Alongside currents of a sacred river that has for ages offered its waves as the bed to the joy of marriage, the sorrow of death, and to the song of loneliness, people live lives rooted in beliefs and rituals that are sometimes entangled with the atrocities of those in power. Among them, the female kind is the weaker kind, the kind whose destiny is shaped not only by those in power but by the male only in power with them, and then there is the weakest kind, the girls who face the bitterness of enforced life before they taste the sweetness of childhood. And then there are the few who will to face all hardships because they still have the flame of life burning inside them; those are the ones who dare to dream and to change. Withstanding all the storms, they swim to the very depth of the currents of life, happy that they have had the opportunity of feeling, really feeling what it means to love and be loved, what it means to be free with one's heart and soul and to change. Those who dare to open up are bathed with the real sacred waters, and in their bathing, they splash drops here and there on those around. And the people who have tasted the true taste of the purified water of life will not go back to taste anything less; they won't settle for less than the sacred waters; they too will enjoy the lightness of a joyful heart.
"Water" brings to the screen the story of a little joyous girl whose life is the extreme manifestation of traditions that cause some to suffer misery and loss. The little girl who is forced to live in a house of widows when she loses her husband, whom she remembers nothing of marrying to, expect the sweets of her wedding night, is not defeated and does not lose hope, but rather with her courage and liveliness, and with the compassion of her newly-found friend, brings change to the devastated group of widows surrounded by walls of social physical and mental poverty. The story of our little girl is intertwined with the love story of her friend, a young widow who has no right to life but to be a prostitute to bring money to the house, but whose life is changed forever with the pure love of a man. Although the love story is not a happy-ending one, "water" helps us accept it with a soft transition to the other side of the story, the story of a nation finding new hope and courage through the words of a new leader, Gandhi. The little girl who came to a house of aging widows under the shadow of sadness brought life to them and they in turn gave her back to life as they let her loose into the currents of a revolution that changed the beliefs and history of a whole nation.
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