FRIDAY FILMY FIESTA-2. Donna Arya was the winner last week. She asked, in a lighter vein, if MRCPsych exam can include Bollywood themed questions. Well lets try this one ( a long shot though, on the eve of Internatinal Womens day) An indian woman was convicted of murder in a British Court for burning her husband to death. She was a victim of domestic violence. The sentence was overturned and reduced to one of manslaughter. This real story was fictionalised into a Courtroom drama. Aishwarya Rai was the star. Name the title of the movie, which is also the special defence for this case, which was not accepted. From one gorgeous woman to another,lets look at Sadma, which featured a young girl/woman with acquired brain injury (now officially under the realm of neuropsychiatry). she suffers from retrograde amnesia, regresses and when she recovers, she forgets her platonic relationship with her protector/captivator. To this date, Sadma remains a landmark film in all those professionals who were involved in it. The strength of the film lies in the climax, which epitomises irony and helplessness. the films director explained that the climax was a metaphorical interpretation of his personal experience, when his muse ( described as a child woman)committed suicide and he did not have the chance to say good bye to her and he did not know why she did it. The director has sublimated his pain, an intense personal experience into an emotional finale, which touched millions. The film also can be interpreted as having similarities to Stanley Kubricks Lolita, where the protagonist has complete control of a fourteen year old girl and keeps her in captivity. The director of Sadma gave a different explanation for the film, that it was a realisation of a male fantasy - a child woman, meaning the mind of a child complete with all the innocence and naivety trapped in a womans body. Was he referring to the regression, neuroticism and the emotional neediness that occurs in borderline psychopathology, which can sometimes be referred to extremes of femininity? Somehow all films that portray mental illness seem to end tragically and this film too is no exception (though the illness is cured). It is as though, film makers include mental illness in the theme if they are making a tragedy. Lets hope that film makers stop sending the patients back to the mental hospital in the last scene.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:32:15 +0000
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