Tuesday, September 27, 2005

clock work

I forgot the name of the movie, but it was a harsh portrayal of the very orthodox and backward muslim society in kerala. It was very painful, the story of the teenaged girl, who is free spirited and good at studies, being married off to a guy who is already married. The girl fights her husband off from his sexual advances with her tooth and nail, literally, and at last he takes the help of his first wife to drug her to sleep, and fucks her. Shes crushed, he later abandons her, to go to dubai, with the money he got as dowry. She get back with her single mother. She tries to continue her studies, but on the day of her final exam, she collapses, and the doctor declares her pregnant. At the end we see her joining the long list of teenaged mothers in the village all deranged, and shunned by the society. The reason why the society is angry with her is also funny. According to their rules the girl should remain inside her house for some 15 days after her husband abandons her. This is to make sure of the father in case she becomes pregnant. And in this case since she has went to school, the child will be considered father less. These fellows had written a lot of rules.
I remembered this movie when I was seeing another movie recently, in which the heroine’s(there is no hero in the movie) neighbours and good friends, are a big family of well off muslims. And I was like getting irritated with the orthodox images. I couldn’t stand it somehow, like the hero in clock work orange, who was given the special medicine, couldn’t stand anything remote to violence anymore.

1 comment:

poonam said...

a thought: why do we wait till the biggest disaster has struck?
the man's sexual advances were not forceful enough, only a rape could make her run.
precaution is considered premature here. sad!