After watching this movie because of my homework, I have a certain understanding of life in India, and at the same time I am deeply shocked. Chuyia, who was only eight years old, lost her husband, whose body was cremated by the Ganges River. The young chuyia was regarded as guilty, but it was actually an extra burden on the family. She was removed from her jewelry, her hair was cut, she was put on a pure white dress, and she was sent to ashram, a widow's house. The running chuyia seems to have brought a touch of vitality to the dead widow's house, allowing the widows to see their past, and chuyia to see their future. Didi, the steward, was among the pimps who "sold" these widows like Brahmins; Kalyani, the only angel with long hair, was the most beautiful commodity among them, but yearned for love; Shakuntala, who had the Brahmin caste, had longed for freedom and liberation. The law was passed, but no one told it; the old grandmother did not wait for the Ganges River to wash away her so-called "sins".
Maybe people living in hell always have to believe in something to have hope, but the gods they believe in are also the reason for their miserable life. The footage of the film was taken across the river many times, showing that the Indians were born near the water. People live on the Ganges, and the Ganges is their religion. They bathed in "holy water" and blessed their marriage with "holy water". In the movie, we often see wooden frames and burning corpses erected by the river, as if there are dead people all the time, and the holy water also carries their ashes to life.
At the back of the movie, kalyani threw himself into the river, and Shakuntala said to chuyia that she hoped that she could be reborn as a man in the next life, perhaps the best blessing to her and them in this desperate reality.
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