Film: Of Love and Other Demons
Director: Hilda Hidalgo
Language: Spanish
The movie shows the power of church and bishops, the distinction between the white and black, the cruelty of nuns towards the mentally and physically challenged people. Indian medicines are considered illegal and a doctor is banned for using it. Instead of giving treatment to the dog bitten girl, the bishop was talking superstitious reasons. The movie shows the real and abstract scenes: the dream of the priest about the girl was abstract, when the candle fell down in the pond it still glows; it shows though the girl was in the cell she got some of relief from the priest and the lady who came to her cell. In the second dream when the girl try to take out the candle, water turns black, that shows the darkness spreading in the girls life when she was not allowed to go with her parents and the priest was withdrawn from his charge to look after her. Visualisation of the eclipse is also good. I liked this movie.
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