Water

Water was an excellent foreign film. The story line was very intense and informing. It is the story of a little girl named Chuyio who is taken from her family at the age of seven, because of the death of her husband. When her husband dies she is taken and has her head shaved completely bald, she is given white robes and is sent to this home where she is left all alone. At first she doesn't like her new environment and is very rebellious, soon she seems to become comfortable with her new home. She becomes friends with a girl named Kalyani who has fallen in love with a man named Narayan. The fact that Kalyani is a widow makes the way she feels for Narayan a sin. Narayan wants her to become his wife and to the other widows this is completely absurd. Kalyani ends up leaving the widows home to marry Narayan, but when she goes to his house she finds out that his father is one of the men she had been prostituted out to. Kalyani is devastated and she ends up killing herself in the river, leaving Chuyio all alone with the widows. Now that Kalyani is gone Didi: the widow in charge of the house,decides that Chuyia is going to be the new "whore." Chuyia is raped and Shakuntala takes her to see Gandhi. She gives Chuyia to Narayan who is one the train with Gandhi. She wants Chuyia to have a better life and not have to live the way Shakuntala has had to live her whole life.

I think that this movie was absolutely fantastic. I don't usually like foreign films cause i hate reading subtitles but this movie grabbed my attention form the very beginning. This movie really opened my eyes to how some other parts of the world are so very different from where i am living today. I feel bad for the women who have to live like this. They don't know any better though, they have lived like they are living almost their whole entire lives so it is what they think is right. This movie makes me want to go out and try to change the world. I am so glad i got the opportunity to watch this inspiring movie. I would defiantly watch this movie again. I recommend this movie to anybody who is willing to learn new things and learn about extremist views.
I would give this movie 3 out of 4 stars.
By: Brittany hall