13 Dec 2007 - Movie review: Water

It is 3:30AM and I could not sleep. Last night, we watched Deepa Mehta's movie "Water" which is set in 1930s India, during Gandhi's rise in prominence and before the country's independence. In the lushly shot film, eight-year-old Chuyia (an astonishingly mature Sarala) is woken by her father's words: "Do you remember getting married?"

"No," she sleepily replies.

"Your husband died. You're a widow now."

"For how long?" she asks, as we see her father's stricken face.

Both Helen and I woke up at 2PM thinking about this eight-year-old girl's life and the Hindu religion.

If you would like see an exceptional movie, I recommend Water but suggest you watch it earlier in the day.

We just signed up for a 2-week trial of "Netflix" which in addition to the DVDs you get in the mail you can watch movies over the Internet. Water was our first experience with on-demand Internet movie. I connected our laptop with our 37" LCD TV and it worked like playing a DVD. Give it a try.