Water: Widows in India

Water was an amazing movie to watch. I was personally riveted by the plot, I had no idea that it was so hard to be a widow in India. I learned a bunch of new things. I also loved the characters, to me, they seemed extremely real and their emotions seemed highly realistic. Chuyia seemed like a real kid . She showed her emotions in a very realistic way. She acted out and isolated herself. she obviously favored Kaliyani for various reasons. Shes 7 years old and she had already been married to a old man who passed. Her parents drop her off at the widows house and she seems very confused. As Chuyia and Kaliyani are out bathing to purify themselves and their pet, Chuyia runs into Narayan. He helps her back to find Kaliyani and a spark seems to ignite between Narayan and Kaliyani. Or at least it Narayan is very interested in Kaliyani.

As you get sucked into the movie some sad facts are brought to your attention. The first is that Didi ( the main leader of the widows in that house) sells one of the widows that is young, beautiful and different from others, to make money. She has a friend who is the "Pimp" and sells her. She uses manipulation, guilt and many other things, to force these women to do this for her. The second thing that you learn is that there is a law that says widows are aloud to remarry, a very good thing, but no one knows about it because they only pay attention to laws that will be helpful for all. Sadly no one cared enough to teach people of this law. Kaliyani and Narayan plan to wed and a tragedy occurs, causing depression to Chuyia. Her guard is down and she is manipulated by Didi. Very sad indeed. The ending to this movie is sad but it makes you think. I thought that it even showed the message to the movie very strongly.

Now, what I feel the message for this movie was, to trust your conscience and to follow your instincts. also what i got from the movie was to, honestly, trust yourself and you'll never let yourself down. It was ,honestly, a hard film to watch towards the end. Not because it wasnt a good film but because not only dose it deal with horrible things that widows have to go through in India but what women and men all over the world have to deal with. A subject that is very heartfelt and quite a tear jerker. That subject is rape. Even worse the rape of a child.

I absolutely loved this film. I dont normally like foreign films but this one way very amazing. I would give it 5 stars.

Kenzie Peake