When the moon shines on this poignant and beautiful bank of the Ganges, how many people will think of the group of "widows" who were abandoned by society and lived miserably?
The story unfolds in an oil painting-like picture, leading to an exotic story.
The story begins with Chuya, a little girl who is suddenly told to be a widow at the age of eight. In the dream, she was awakened, shaved off her beautiful curly hair, sent to a cold widow's home, and forced to change her life.
In an unfamiliar widow's house, there is an old "aunt" who dreams of childhood engagement scenes; a selfish and vicious Matumati; a widow's house authority who hovers between faith and destiny The "eldest sister", Shakenthala; Kalianne, who is as beautiful as an angel, but is forced to send a guest...
The story takes Kalianne and Brahmin noble master Narayan acquaintance and love as clues, revealing that in Hinduism The fate of the socially outcast widows under the doctrine.
This group of widows, most of whom became widows before the age of ten and were sent to the widow's house, will be regarded as unlucky people for the rest of their lives. If you are happy, you can only stay in a widow's house until you die of old age.
Until the appearance of the young Brahman Narayan, he brought Gandhi's advanced ideas, and also hoped to break the tradition of thousands of years and marry the widow Kalianne as his wife.
When Kalianne and Chuya are full of faith to change the widow's fate, the world has stood up against all this, especially other widows.
When the vast majority of people in a society blindly and numbly believe in a certain tradition, that tradition becomes the absolute truth.
So Kalianne had her hair cut off by Matumati amid objections, and she was locked up in a small attic. At that time, Kalianne still believed that she could grab the tail of happiness.
Until she was released and followed Narayan home with hope, only to find that her future father-in-law was one of her guests.
In the end, in desperation, she threw herself into the beautiful Ganges River and died in a place called "Holy Water".
When religion is veiled in truth, forcing a group of weak women to turn the monastery into a brothel, it also exposes a group of nobles and worldly people wearing false masks.
Widows despise Kalianne, who picks up customers, and live on the money she earns from picking up customers; priests of nobles, while ravaging widows, claim that the women enjoyed by priests are their blessings.
In the end, the selfish Matumati and the greedy priest even spared the eight-year-old Chuya. Only the "eldest sister" asked her sincere question after Kalyani's death, "When morality and belief conflict, how should we choose?"
The most shocking scene in the movie is not Kalyani's death, but "eldest sister" asking Chu Ya , "Am I getting old?" When Chu Ya said angrily, "I'm getting old...", the eldest sister pondered for a while.
Yes, everyone grows old, but these widows buried their best years in the widow's house. Many of them don't even realize in their entire lives that this is actually a kind of abandonment of them by society.
The sadness of the whole fate of people caused by society is the great sadness of the entire human race...
At the end of the film, "eldest sister" chased Gandhi's train with the traumatized Chuya, and finally handed her over to Nara on the train Young. She left her vicissitudes of life and melancholy eyes, but she pinned her hopes on the innocent and lovely Chu Ya from now on to achieve the freedom and dreams that widows have been unable to achieve for two thousand years.
Destiny cannot be changed by one person, but hope is passed on forever...
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