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Article: Jackals lurk in city of widows: `WATER' LOOKS PAST RELIGIOUS STRICTURES.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2006
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Byline: Bruce Newman
May 5--In Hindu Scripture, it is written, "A widow should be long suffering until death. . . . A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal." In "Water," a somber love story set among the luckless widows of India, Deepa Mehta concludes the "elemental trilogy" she began with "Fire" in 1996, and "Earth" in 1998. The film's city of widows is a place so much worse to park your karma than the alternative forms of damnation, it seems, that "Water" could be considered jackal-friendly. When a widow in the film wanders too near a wedding ...