The more movies our class watches this semester, the more I feel like I am opened up to ideas about the world that I have never thought about before. Mother India and Fire are no different.
These two movies both focus on the idea of female empowerment and rights in India. India is a country that is a very obvious blend of two different cultures - the old and the new. You have people in India who choose to stick with tradition and live their lives by the book, but you also have people who choose to be open to modern ideas and trends, specifically in the way they dress and the types of media they subject themselves to.
Both movies emphasized the conflict that women in particular deal with when faced with choosing between the traditional way of life, versus a newer, freer way of living. Both movies force their title female characters to make choices, choices that will have serious impacts on the lives of others. In Mother India, someone loses their life, and in Fire, two couples are faced with divorces. While the impacts that these decisions have had are terrible, the women in these movies chose to empower themselves and make the decisions that they feel are right for them. I think this is a very interesting theme to find in movies based in India, a country that is facing such a time of transition.
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