Water - Special Edition (2 disc) [2006]

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Customer reviews

review by: Rock The Night! date: 2008-07-22 rating:
Absolute rubbish!
This film is so bad that me and my sister quit watching after about 30 mminutes. The actors have such strong accents that it's impossible to understand half of what they say, and there does not seem to be much of a storyline. It basically consists of people running around a courtyard yelling incomprihensibly. I have never seen such a bad film, and I do not recommend that you watch this. If amazon allowed one to give 0 stars, then I would have done so, for it does not deserve even a single star.

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review by: usman khawaja date: 2008-07-17 rating:
SPARKLING WAREY BRILLIANCE

after Earth- DEEPA MEHTA turns to water with a bolder theme and does full justice to the maltreatment of widows still prevalent in an institutionalised form in this realistic drama set in the Ganges valley and shot beautifully with poetic fluidness in Sri lanka ,after it was denied filming in Benares where it was set origonally.


The cast is superb headed by Seema biswas as the minder of a widow asylum in india , with Lisa ray and John abraham enacting an anigmatic but tragic love affair and the evil is captured with true subtlety in the form of paedophiles and pimps who exploit the widows in an asharam for lust and greed .
The 9 year old child widow Chiriya, walks away with the final applause with a great performance as she is handled with fragile care by the excellent script and direction .the tragedy of cultural exploitation of the weaker sex was never brought to life in a more subtle and mature manner by an indian film-maker before ,and the sound track helps the evolution of a shocking story where the twist in the finale will take your breath away.
Unmissable and truly worthy of its oscar nomination ,kudos to the entire team .
the movie is set in british india and the brief appearance of the mahatama at the end is very symbolic yet relevant to this social awakening from a brilliant woman director .
MUST HAVE DEVD WITH GREAT FEATURES .

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review by: date: 2008-05-04 rating:
disappointed of Bracknell
This is the only film I have ever given up on. I rented this on the strength of the reviews on the cover and this website. I found it entirely claustraphobic and totally lacking in pace and direction. The cutting and editing were amateurish. The music promised much but was too little in evidence. I normally like foreign films and love books by Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Hari Kunzu but I lost patience with this one. It would have been better as a documentary. Education it may be, but entertainment it is not.

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review by: date: 2008-04-21 rating:
An Excellent Watch
On the surface this appeared to be a simple form, but it has immense depth, politically, culturally and historically and did a great job in highlighting the complexity of all three in operation. The acting was of a very high standard and although I'm new to Indian films of this nature - i am hooked. I enjoyed it so much i watched it twice in two days and bought a second film of the triolgy - 'Earth' - which i highly recommend



review by: red squirrell date: 2008-04-10 rating:
drowning culture
Ghandi said that it was good to swim in culture but not to drown in it. This film shows how people drown (suffer) unnecessarily because of tradition/religion/culture. Ghandi thought that widows should be allowed to re-marry. When a pretty widow decides to try and re-marry she is told that she will be reborn in the womb of a jackal and she will condemn her fellow widows to harm. The widows do have to bring in money to survive and besides begging the ?senior widow is not adverse to enlisting the services of a female pimp to find "work" for her fellow house mates. Rather a harrowing film in many ways, I found myself becoming outraged, frustrated sad but it is certainly a very important document. I had the single disc version which had no subtitles, one could watch the film in Hindi or English. Unfortunately, I found it rather hard to hear the dialogue on the english version..perhaps the 2 disc version is better.

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