THG Recom. 9: Three characters in two films - unhappily married, unhappily single and tragically separated
Three movies and an article this week.
This week, I watched this Hebrew-Arabic masterpiece once again today.
Do you travel often enough? Have you lost your way or been stranded in unexpected circumstances? Have you met people so different from you yet with so similar emotions to your own? Have you fluently communicated with a broken language? Have you seen or been through unhappy marriage that seems to only get worse over time? Have you regretted life decisions that were, in hindsight, taken without the seriousness they deserved?
Regardless of your answers to all these questions, this drama from Israel will mesmerize you.
On the other hand, does it sometimes feel that you have hit the bottom and there is nowhere deeper to go? Does the world then go on to defy your assessment and propel youerself down from the plane that was supposed to be the floor?
Do you sometimes wonder what could be the depth of human suffering? Ever wanted to peek through the lives of people condemned to live through hell for no fault of their own? Ever frustrated by a system where the weak and poor never seem to get justice?
Here is another brilliant—and heartbreaking—cinema from India in which the wife of an unskilled laborer decides to track her husband’s path after he goes missing in the city for years.
Unfortunately this has no subtitle, so you’ll need a decent comprehension in Hindi.
In Nepali, please check out this brilliant piece on how brain of the victim works differently in situations like sexual assault and rape compared to normal situation. Based on neuroscience and full of audio-visual illustrations, this will help to clear many misconceptions about sexual violence and the alleged complicity of the victims:
बलात्कारको बेलामा किन महिला भाग्दैनन्, किन चिच्याउँदैनन् ?
Finally, another beautiful movie from India (mostly in English) delicately handling the issue of child sexual abuse, the scars it leaves in families and the cycle in which it repeats itself:
Some pressing issues at hand mean that I am not in a position to recommend more this week.
See you next week!