Analysis of the Movies, Fire and I Can't Think Straight
Analysis on Movies: ‘Fire’ & ‘I can’t think straight’
In the present volatile social dynamics, arguing what’s normal and what’s abnormal seems completely baseless, since today abnormality defines the new normal. I find this movie making an honest attempt to portray a different dimension of life from an angle of love. This analysis deals with how homosexuality is portrayed in an Indian and a Jewish society and the conceptions and stereotypes that come with it.
Finding true love and perfect soul-mates might be the hardest task at hand for any individual, the concept about how two people are meant to be for each other, be it someone from the same sex.
With the title ‘Fire’ one would usually associate it with hell, hatred, anger, or rage but here the element fire is used to establish warmth and love. Whereas, ‘I can’t think straight’, the title itself comes out to be so cliché, the name itself revels that it revolves around alternative sexuality.
There is a big misconception that there are no lesbians that exist in the Indian society; the movie ‘Fire’ by Deepa Mehta, resurrects elements that over the years have become close to extinct. The society is built up of human relationships that work on certain principles of hierarchy. And very often films represent this society, in very clichéd, stereotypical ways. ‘Fire’ is a movie that breaks away from the Bollywood formula plot, and the viewers are slowly introduced to every situation in the movie so that they could actually digest the idea of two women finding love in each other and sharing physical intimacy. Drawing a parallel to this movie, ‘I can’t think straight’, the two girls find it difficult to compel to what their mothers want them to do, and what the society expects them to do. How Laila is compelled to go out and date a good Muslim boy, and arranging the perfect Jordan Christian marriage for Tala.
Marriage is not always perfect, like some would like to pretend. ‘Fire’ is about how two women find comfort
In the present volatile social dynamics, arguing what’s normal and what’s abnormal seems completely baseless, since today abnormality defines the new normal. I find this movie making an honest attempt to portray a different dimension of life from an angle of love. This analysis deals with how homosexuality is portrayed in an Indian and a Jewish society and the conceptions and stereotypes that come with it.
Finding true love and perfect soul-mates might be the hardest task at hand for any individual, the concept about how two people are meant to be for each other, be it someone from the same sex.
With the title ‘Fire’ one would usually associate it with hell, hatred, anger, or rage but here the element fire is used to establish warmth and love. Whereas, ‘I can’t think straight’, the title itself comes out to be so cliché, the name itself revels that it revolves around alternative sexuality.
There is a big misconception that there are no lesbians that exist in the Indian society; the movie ‘Fire’ by Deepa Mehta, resurrects elements that over the years have become close to extinct. The society is built up of human relationships that work on certain principles of hierarchy. And very often films represent this society, in very clichéd, stereotypical ways. ‘Fire’ is a movie that breaks away from the Bollywood formula plot, and the viewers are slowly introduced to every situation in the movie so that they could actually digest the idea of two women finding love in each other and sharing physical intimacy. Drawing a parallel to this movie, ‘I can’t think straight’, the two girls find it difficult to compel to what their mothers want them to do, and what the society expects them to do. How Laila is compelled to go out and date a good Muslim boy, and arranging the perfect Jordan Christian marriage for Tala.
Marriage is not always perfect, like some would like to pretend. ‘Fire’ is about how two women find comfort