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Movie Reviews of Water
Movie Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was amazing. It was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It portrays the hardships caused by old cultural traditions. It shows how the traditional ways are not necessarily the right ways to live. The movie was designed to enlighten the viewers to the plight of Indian widows. The story starts with a young girl named Chuyia who is married at 7 and widowed at 8. She is then sent to the house of widows where she is faced with many hardships that she finds pointless. Her lack of traditional knowledge has her confronting the old ways revealing their flaws.Movie Review: Falling in Love
Summary: 5 Stars
Watch this movie just to see the scene where little Chuyia and Kalayani play joyous patti cakes with their hands when Kalayani and Narayana fall in love. We often forget how it felt when we first fell in love and Water brings it out in such an innocent and effective way. A lot of time spent in the movie bathing and getting drinking water out of a river that I would definitely not want to drink water out of! However, this does not spoil the depiction of rural life in India in 1938 and of the promise that Ghandi has for changing the unfair treatment of widows.Movie Review: The serious side of Bollywood
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the mindlessness of what I know about Bollywood: great music, run dance routines, and color, color, color. After seeing Bollywood/Hollywood, I searched amazon for a new film and decided on this. Water turned out to be a real film (with great music and no dance) that opened my mind up to the complexities of Indian culture. WATER is a movie of complex characters, conflicts of culture, and really good acting. It's worth picking up; you'll want to watch it more than once and pass it on to the friends you'll tell about it.Movie Review: This is the best that the movies can offer
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the finest films I have ever had the pleasure to watch, and it has stayed with me long after I saw it. The story includes cruelty and love, injustice and redemption, sadness and beauty, in a plot that is compelling to watch, painful at times to experience, and beautifully conceived and depicted on screen. This is not just an "Indian movie" it is a universal work of art. Your eyes will feast on the colors and the acting; your heart will break with the story.
Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
The girl's 8, she doesn't remember her wedding, her husband is dead, and now she's a widow forever.
And almost immediately after, the filmmaker has us laughing.
This is a brilliant film that looks at the sweeping changes in a society by using the little microcosm of a home for widows. It's got all the color and music of India, and Deepa Mehta is just so gifted that I oughta hunt down every film she's ever made. She just keeps impressing me.