Water

Being in an "international film" phase, Indian in particular, I went to watch the movie Water. It was truly awesome. The scenes were great and very real. Nevermind that there were only 4 people in a movie theatre capable of holding up to 200 people. Three out of the four were themselves Indian.

The story was about this girl who became a widow as a child. Very sad. There are apparently a greater number of widows in India than the entire population of Canada put together. Doesn't that just blow your mind?

In Indian culture, widows are looked down upon and treated worse than the scum at the bottom of a cest pool. Why? Hmm, it said that a woman is an extension of her husband and not a separate individual. Isn't it funny how we are all human beings, capable of the same things...yet we develop in such different ways.

I guess the tabula rasa theory of the mind has to be partly true. We were born a blank slate and can be molded into anything. When it comes to beliefs, anyways. Where does logic come in then? Is logic not subjective as well? What is logical to us may not be for someone else who does not think like us.

Everything taken into consideration, I totally enjoyed the movie. Not because it was pleasant, but because it was real. One truly disturbing part was where the child was sent to work as a prostitute to get money for the ashram in which she lived. Since the story was set in the pre-independent India, there was also a lot of talk on Gandhi which was quite a treat.

So despite the half drunken state in which we began watching the movie, by the end of it we were deep in thought.