Water is a movie about widows that don't really try to escape being a widow or get remarried but one woman thought it was right and she should be able to get remarried. I think this movie is trying to tell us that if you truly believe it is right, and try, it can be achieved. This is kind of like living up to your own worldview. One example of someone living up to their worldview is when one widow wanted to get married and all the other widows wanted to stop her because they believed it would curse them. She fought through them and was able to take down the peer pressure because she truly loved that man. Her whole community was against her but she still was able to go for what she believed was right. Chuyia (the little girl) also showed how she tried to fight for her worldview because when she announced that one of the widows were going to get married, one of the older widows said she couldn't. Chuyia started stepping harshly on the older widow which shows how she was standing for what she believed was right. A final example of a widow trying to what she believes is right is when Didi takes the key from the elderly widow who locked up the widow that wanted to get married. She freed the widow so she could get married, but she knew this would make many have no respect for her. Overall many people in this movie did what they truly believed was the right thing to do in their situation, and some went beyond Gods commandments, not sure if God would be okay with it but it was her worldview and she thought it was true.Arc of Movie: This movie talked about a young widow (around 7 years old) being taken to a widow house with many other widows. She meets a widow named Kalyani who meets a man and wants to marry this man. Other widows say if she marries this man she will get cursed. Kalyani commits suicide and another widow doesn't want Chuyia (the little girl) to live with the other widows in their sad life so she gave Chuyia to the handsome man that Kalyani wanted to marry, when he was on a train with Gandhi.

Water is a movie about widows that don't really try to escape being a widow or get remarried but one woman thought it was right and she should be able to get remarried. I think this movie is trying to tell us that if you truly believe it is right, and try, it can be achieved. This is kind of like living up to your own world-view. One example of someone living up to their world-view is when one widow wanted to get married and all the other widows wanted to stop her because they believed it would curse them. She fought through them and was able to take down the peer pressure because she truly loved that man. Her whole community was against her but she still was able to go for what she believed was right. Chuyia (the little girl) also showed how she tried to fight for her world-view because when she announced that one of the widows were going to get married, one of the older widows said she couldn't. Chuyia started stepping harshly on the older widow which shows how she was standing for what she believed was right. A final example of a widow trying to what she believes is right is when Didi takes the key from the elderly widow who locked up the widow that wanted to get married. She freed the widow so she could get married, but she knew this would make many have no respect for her. Overall many people in this movie did what they truly believed was the right thing to do in their situation, and some went beyond Gods commandments, not sure if God would be okay with it but it was her world-view and she thought it was true.Arc of Movie: This movie talked about a young widow (around 7 years old) being taken to a widow house with many other widows. She meets a widow named Kalyani who meets a man and wants to marry this man. Other widows say if she marries this man she will get cursed. Kalyani commits suicide and another widow doesn't want Chuyia (the little girl) to live with the other widows in their sad life so she gave Chuyia to the handsome man that Kalyani wanted to marry, when he was on a train with Gandhi.

This film Water, directed by Deepa Mehta is one of the most touching film I have ever seen. Filled with many cultural and religious insights, this film has a very interesting plot, with characters from an ashram ( a house for widows). With the arrival of the main character, seven year-old widow Chuyia, other widows question their lives and begin to doubt the traditions of their religion. She is separated from her parents, her hair is shaved off and she is only allowed to wear white clothing. According to the Hindu traditions since woman have to be devoted to the husband, when the husband dies the wife either dies with him or lives a life of self-denial. In this film when Chuyia's auntie (Patiraji) was dying in the ashram, a widow asked Chuyia to fetch some water from the Holy river. This clarifies that they believe the water of the Ganges River is holy. I enjoyed the fact that romance between Kalyani and Narayan was part of the plot, making the film so much more emotional. Overall this film exemplifies a great image of the life of an Indian widow in the 1930s. Especially followed by the rising figure Ghandi, the end of the film clearly convey the fact that many people in India, not only widows believe that 'Ghandi is one of the few people on Earth who speaks for his conscience.' This quote shows that there are very few people in the world who like Ghandi speaks for the people and speaks for what he truly believes in. I think that Deepa Mehta sent out a great message out through this film that sometimes religions can cause a very unfair life. Sometimes trusting your conscience and bending the rules will lead to a much better and joyful life.

map of a world. delicate touch. and little waves of cry. a film about rules of tradition. about innocence, sufferance, evil as soul mist, sacrifice, love and hope. it is not a movie about India. it is only story about yourself. because the facts are not part of an only cultural space. because intolerance is food and protection for many people . because the basic elements of cruelty and lost of compassion are not accidents. or isolated pieces. because all is simple. and delicate. a girl. a strange world of a kind of ashram. a young man. his girl friend. a train. and one passenger, for late moment, the girl. nothing more. as letters of a testimony without end.