Fire
by Deepa Mehta
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Actor: Dilip Mehta, Javed Jaffrey, Karishma Jhalani, Nandita Das, Ramanjeet KaurDirector: Deepa Mehta
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
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Summary: 5 Stars
I find this film to be an intense intellectual experience on several levels.
Ostensibly an Indian movie on the taboo subject of female relationships there is a clear parable involving the spiritual versus the secular where one brother, married to a barren wife seeks to overcome his human desires through following the teachings of a swami. His brother, the proprietor of a video store, has a relationship with a Chinese woman but goes through with an arranged marriage in conformity with family tradition. The strains of tradition force the two women to seek comfort in each other, developing a relationship between them where desires are awakened and love overcomes the taboos enforced by a patriarchal society. In the background is the handicapped matriarch who's care is the responsibility of a young man who abuses the responsibility entrusted to him, but which heightens the lack of respect women hold in that society.
On a different level, the film nicely illustrates the conflicts involed in a society which is in the throes of a transition to modernity. The ols quasi-religious notions are being usurped as contemporary capitalistic globalisation forces drive deep into the urban population. The brothers sybolise the old and the new. The old holds that spirituality is the glue which holds society together whilst the new stresses individuality and business meeting individual needs. In this sense the two women show how the new notions corrupt and subsume the old. the relationship which develops is based on desire and the concept of selfishness which may or may not be long lasting and worthwhile.
Choosing thus overlooks the plight of those women in India who are excluded from society upon divorce or widowhood and other social issues but neverthe less this is an important film not just for the representation of the modernisation of India but to gives us a glimpse of some of the issues involved in the West in our own journey to industrialisation and beyond.
An altogether excellent, even extraordinary film.
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Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 07/11/2000 Run time: 104 minutesArt House & International DVD Video
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