Earth Film Review
Mahatma Gandhi once said that "when fear takes over, the spirit is ignored and we focus all of our attention on the point of danger, thus losing the capacity to find any courage, sanity, or peace inside ourselves." Earth by Deepa Mehta, is the second film of the elemental trilogy, and is about "the largest and most terrible exchange of population in history" filmed in a way that does not correspond to a typical South Asian film. Earth depicts the tension and the resulting violence surrounding the British division of the country into an independent India and Pakistan. The partition is represented through a love story between three people, told through an eight year-old Parsee girl named Lenny-Baby.
The film offers a powerful history lesson of how religion is used as an excuse to seize land and emit violence against another people in the name of nationalism, as each side is overcome with hatred and thrown into war against their own friends. Muslim was against Hindu-Sikh, with each......
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