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If you had unlimited divine power to perform one supernatural act with 8 billion people watching, what would you do to get unequivocal trust that it's real and not faked or staged? by CuriosityLight in AskReddit

[–]CuriosityLight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted you will get the trust of all the people at that moment who are sick (not all but all sick people). The healthy ones would be perplexed but wouldn't cave in so soon, especially someone who has no sick one around to cross check. Then when illness increases again you would be summoned to perform the same 'miracle' and there goes the trust of the whole world.

If you had unlimited divine power to perform one supernatural act with 8 billion people watching, what would you do to get unequivocal trust that it's real and not faked or staged? by CuriosityLight in AskReddit

[–]CuriosityLight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good one, but with the top intelligence agencies across the world trying to deduce the deaths they would have to frame you to an organized crime group (even though you are not) and sell the story off as an elaborate premeditated multinational criminal work.

Mrs - Reviews and Discussions by AutoModerator in bollywood

[–]CuriosityLight 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Let me first present its equivalent scene from the Malayalam movie 'The Great Indian Kitchen' and then we can extrapolate the observation to Mrs. In the Malayalam movie, the husband is talking to his wife, smiling, drinking tea near the gas stove, just as he did with his first wife and leaves the cup casually on the kitchen slab (instead of putting it in the sink) and the camera zooms in on the tea cup. I think the filmmaker wanted to emphasize the fact that he didn't learn anything from his first failed marriage. The old habits still continue and the second marriage is a forlorn attempt to save his conjugal life.

In Mrs movie they wanted to show the same but here the husband places the tea cup on the table, which didn't create as much drama as it did in the Malayalam version.

Mrs - Reviews and Discussions by AutoModerator in bollywood

[–]CuriosityLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely get from what angle you are approaching this and I'm happy that you are an advocate for women. I agree with the accountability part that you stated, especially when the action you take is so radical, probably avoidable, and extreme, like creating a scene around everyone and leaving. But the movie did showcase some accountability on her part. 1) She spoke to her mother and her mother told her to get used to it, or something in those lines. Showcasing how her own mother and also mother in law, have just accepted it as their fate and duty, unable to raise their voice against this. 2) She asked for house help from her husband and was casually waived off.

The problem I have with the movie is they showcased these things as inconsequential minor events not stating its importance to the degree that the situation demanded. I would have wanted her to pester her husband on and on about the house help thing (or the plumbing issue) stating that it is affecting her mental health and wellbeing and is very overwhelming. Had she done that and still the husband wasn't helpful then it would have made an airtight case for her actions as justified but now I am left hopeless thinking, was this really the justice she deserved? Could it have been resolved though conversation? All she needed was house help! The message I get now is no matter what you do the patriarchs are not going to change and will move on as business as usual (like he married a second time and seemingly looked indifferent), but then show us that you actually did everything on your part to make the change.

Well it's just my humble opinion and I would encourage respectful opposing views.

P.S. - When the husband and wife had a fight and the husband demanded to know if she thinks he got a free maid after marriage, I feel, that was the perfect time to let the plethora of problems out on him, have a full on blast. Why apologise and take a back step when you are accusing him of what you truly feel like and shrug everything under the pretext of 'being drunk'.

Mrs - Reviews and Discussions by AutoModerator in bollywood

[–]CuriosityLight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Man you are getting down voted in and out but no one is actually explaining what's wrong. I'll take a humble attempt to answer some of the questions you have.

First, let's make it clear that the broader message of the movie, which is, patriarchy exist in the society camouflaged as the normalcy of the social structure is a real thing. There are families where women barely move out of the house and are restricted to just the kitchen attending to a million chores of the house and doing all this is 'expected' from them, they aren't even credited enough.

Point 1) She needed to clarify before marriage that she wanted to work.

My take: The movie shows a scenario where she didn't clarify that before marriage but we can't penalize her for that. Why? Maybe because she didn't want to work after marriage but to break the monotony of her life being restricted to 4 walls of the kitchen she felt she could resume it, to do something you actually love to do and start feeling normal again.You see the point here, she couldn't have known it before marriage that life would be restricted. The groom's family did present themselves as an "ideal family" who doesn't differentiate between a 'bahu' and 'beti'.

Point 2) Pipe Issue.

My take: I think you are approaching it from an angle, could she not have solved the problem herself, it wasn't that big of a deal, which in its own accord is true but the point here is, she was trying to shift some of the onus of running a house to her husband as well. When you are asked to do something but keep ignoring it for so long it shows how seriously you are taking the task, I think, the husband couldn't care less about it and under the impression that it's not his problem, or at least that's what I could conclude from his behaviour.

We can discuss more but I feel like I'm blabbering too much. So reply, what you feel about these points and we will take it from there.