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Earth
Ugh.
I just watched the film 'Earth' by Deepa Mehta. And, as the teaser promised, I am emotionally devastated.
Human cruelty is That which I..just can't...understand..which absolutely breaks my heart.
Here's a spliced description:
"Earth, The second film in Deepa Mehta's controversial trilogy is an emotionally devastating love story set within the sweeping social upheaval and violence of 1947 India. As her country teeters on the brink of self rule and instability, 8-year old Lenny, an innocent girl from an affluent Parsee family, is in danger of having her world turned upside down. As the simmering violence around them reaches a boiling point, Lenny's beautiful nanny Shanta (Nandita Das) falls in love with one of Lenny's heroes,… the charismatic and peace-advocating Hassan. Love, however, can be dangerous when religious differences are tearing the country apart, and friendships and loyalty are put to the test. ./Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees alike buzz like bees around the lovely flower Shanta, the Hindu nanny of sheltered 8-year-old Parsee girl Lenny-baby. This sunny Eden of racial harmony plunges into darkness when independence brings the partition of the empire and sets ethnic groups against one another in civil war./ Building to a shattering climax, Earth is a devastating human drama in which desire unfolds into a stirring tale of love and the ultimate betrayal. "
Yes, I do recommend the film highly... and give Kudos to Mehta for expressing such a jarring perspective and showing the sad irony of violence between groups of people who once were friends.
Has anyone seen it?
I just watched the film 'Earth' by Deepa Mehta. And, as the teaser promised, I am emotionally devastated.
Human cruelty is That which I..just can't...understand..which absolutely breaks my heart.
Here's a spliced description:
"Earth, The second film in Deepa Mehta's controversial trilogy is an emotionally devastating love story set within the sweeping social upheaval and violence of 1947 India. As her country teeters on the brink of self rule and instability, 8-year old Lenny, an innocent girl from an affluent Parsee family, is in danger of having her world turned upside down. As the simmering violence around them reaches a boiling point, Lenny's beautiful nanny Shanta (Nandita Das) falls in love with one of Lenny's heroes,… the charismatic and peace-advocating Hassan. Love, however, can be dangerous when religious differences are tearing the country apart, and friendships and loyalty are put to the test. ./Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees alike buzz like bees around the lovely flower Shanta, the Hindu nanny of sheltered 8-year-old Parsee girl Lenny-baby. This sunny Eden of racial harmony plunges into darkness when independence brings the partition of the empire and sets ethnic groups against one another in civil war./ Building to a shattering climax, Earth is a devastating human drama in which desire unfolds into a stirring tale of love and the ultimate betrayal. "
Yes, I do recommend the film highly... and give Kudos to Mehta for expressing such a jarring perspective and showing the sad irony of violence between groups of people who once were friends.
Has anyone seen it?
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Scary ... the thing is, I can see people justifying bad policies that caused massive death by saying "well, of course we didn't want everyone to die" ... the genocidal killings can't be justified, but it's very much easier to abdicate responsibility when yours isn't the hand that pulls the trigger, and when the hand that pulls the trigger is nearly paralyzed by fear of a dictator and the many, many other hands that will pull triggers if this hand does not.
When September 11th happened, sickened by my own numbness in the face of death and my ability to weep at even quite banal movies, I imagined dead people, their grieving relatives, the horror of a human life extinguished, until I hit my capacity. I got to about thirty. Thirty dead people is about as many as I can imagine.
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