Water is one of several ancient sacred things, associated with primordial life, death, and nurture, perhaps one of the deepest yet most neglected things in the world. The use of water in the film to refer to the Indian religious tradition is not an outdated thing, but a living thing in life, and the people who live in it, such as the love and death of the protagonist, are related to water, but flow like water, No trace is left. In the end, no matter if it has been blindly believed, used, or abandoned, water is still water, and religion is still that ancient religion. The heroine is a widow, but there is no bitterness and hatred to describe her misery, just stop there; the same is true when it comes to love, Gandhi, reform, and the fate of women.
This is a good film that is easily overlooked. Canada and India are co-produced, maybe because CCTV gave it a vulgar name: Moon River. A friend said that the film's "plot is very old-fashioned, the story is very bland, the technique is very traditional, but the effect is wonderful". Thinking of the many films or books that wanted to capture the mysteries of India, they only touched the skin, but this one is sad, lonely, and mysterious, just like the East I dreamed of in my heart, which is both comforting and full of suffering. .
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