, the eldest sister holds Xiao Qiuya, who is as weak as a dead, chasing the slowly leaving train, "Save her, take her away, and hand her over to her. To Gandhi." She repeatedly shouted, "Why is no one listening to me?" I don't know what her faith so strong was, but I felt her faith collapsed at that moment.
When she watched Gandhi preach "truth is God" from a distance in the crowd, her eyes were strange. Maybe she wasn't sure that he could really save them, but she still did. It is not the light of hope that ignites in despair, but the desire to flee. Here, the train is a symbol of escape. The male protagonist who was defeated by reality and became weak also left on this train. Fortunately, he rescued Qiuya. After that? He may live with this poor little widow, but is there any possibility of her life starting over?
This ignorant eight-year-old girl, who didn't even know that she was married and her husband died, was shaved, put on a widow's clothes, and sent to a widow's house, like an urchin, holding her mother tomorrow or the day after. The belief that came to take her home, until one day she remained silent and finally believed that she would not have the day to return home. Qiuya's ignorance, unintentionally rebelled against the stereotypes of many widows, and ran recklessly in pursuit of the dog Karu, running like a normal girl is also not allowed. Compared with the hero's family's belief that children should play recklessly and should not get married, it seems sad. Innocently, Qiuya asked the seemingly ignorant, but realistic question, "Where does the male widow live?" She didn't know that under such a system, it was abnormal, it was normal by convention.
She is just a child. Fortunately, I met Karianne, a young widow who was as pure and beautiful as an angel and a lotus flower. Unlike everyone else who was shaved, her long hair was extraordinarily feminine, but it was only the widow's family secretly forcing her to go to the river for a living. Pick-up from the other side. What 's even more frightening is that in the end, Xiao Qiuya, who was only eight years old, was also deceived...
The banks of the river are also an interesting image. People blindfolded themselves, while erecting chastity arches, while secretly doing dirty deeds. Will the water of the Ganges conceal the truth, wash away sins, and send them to heaven?
Even if Carianne is outstanding, she is still the smallest among all living beings, and nothing can escape. At first, she obeyed the rules and did not speak to Narajian. The water spilled on the balcony was poured on Narajian's heart, and love began to germinate. , but it is destined to have no good results.
At night, the beautiful girl went downstream to find her lover who played the flute, and he was the only savior.
Creation tricks people. The male protagonist gave up everything and left home and decided to marry this widow, but at the same time, she had already walked into the depths of the Ganges, and the river was covered with water.
The love line is just to make the story look more poignant. What the movie wants to say is not only this, heavier than love, it is a long life that is bleak and doomed.
There is a very old woman in the widow's family, who describes her skin is dry and wrinkled. Her lifelong wish is only to eat the sweet "Ledu", which was the only food she had eaten when she was married at the age of nine. The memory of marriage in my heart is eating sweets. Yes, she was too young. In his twilight years, he finally ate "Ledu" from Qiuya, so he died contentedly. And how humble this satisfaction is. In this environment where normal and abnormal values are distorted, the lives of widows seem to be humble, just like after the death of their husbands at that time, women had only three options: cremation, burial, shaving their hair and receiving guests, or marrying Brother to husband. The law that "widows can remarry" was passed, but no one cared. People's thoughts are deeply ingrained, like the two men in the film gossiping about Gandhi's trouble, disrupting their ticking order like a British clock, "When conscience and faith conflict, what to do?"
No one can save the real world. people in distress.
The end credits say there are still 34 million widows living as usual. It is more like a documentary than a literary film, recording a distant world that we cannot see or touch, but it is real. I don't know how long I couldn't cry, but when I stared at that world, the tears rolled down in the blink of an eye.
Beauty may be fleeting, but suffering will penetrate deep into the soul and take root.
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