The word Samsara means “repeating cycle of birth” or “incarnation”, a belief typically followed in Hinduism. The scene from the film Samsara shows that it is a non-fictional documentary film that filmed in more than one country. The scene has no voice but it is telling more than if it would have a voice. At one point in the scene there is a man sitting with her daughter looking very careful in regards to her, and showing love as if he saw her first time since she was born. At another point there is a diverse view of freeways, traffic and busy lifestyle in the city of Los Angeles, California. The moment in the film where the tattoo covered father doting on her daughter describes innumerous feelings. May be the father have not seen her daughter for a while, and it brought emotions in the father’s heart. The lifestyle of the father and daughter situation seems traditional and devout. It …show more content…
Los Angeles is one of the busiest city of the united states of America, where people come with their dreams keeping in mind to fulfill them. The freeways in the scene of the film Samsara shows a never ending traffic 24 hours a day. This freeway scene differs from that of father daughter scene. The busy traffic, gigantic infrastructure and enormous lights shows the open culture, technology and selfish life. In Los Angeles father has no time for her daughter and vice versa. Father would be busy in his schedule, so do the daughter. The life here is egocentric and self-serving. Where as in the former culture, the father has enormous love and feelings for her daughter. The scene of freeways shows that the day and night is passing rapidly, and the work in the massive commercial infrastructure is never ending. The people here can afford big cars, daily necessities and other luxuries of life. People here are busy in making money and they don’t have the time for social
In the opening sequence, Nea describes their move to ‘real America’ from “...the hot sweaty America where we lived packed together in an apartment with bars on the windows on a street where angry boys in cars played loud music and shot guns at each other in the night” (281). Despite already living in America, she has this idolistic dream of America influenced by the talks of running away when they are older between her and Sourdi. Their dream is never fulfilled due to Sourdi’s arranged marriage, furthering the physical and metaphorical distance between the two sisters. However, when she receives a phone call from her distraught sister, thinking the worst has happened, Nea goes to Sourdi’s house to convince her to run away. Nea describes Sourdi’s house as, “The lace under curtains before the cheerful flowered draperies, the flourishing plants in the windows, next to little trinkets, figurines in glass that caught the light. Every space crammed with something sweet” (292). However, the inside of the house is a mess: “Baby toys on the carpet, shoes in a pile by the door, old newspapers scattered on an end table anchored by a bowl of peanut shells. The TV was blaring somewhere, and a baby was crying” (292). These contrasting descriptions of the Sourdi’s house echos Nea’s confusion of fantasy with reality. Her idolistic dream of having a close relationship with her sister clouds her from seeing that has her sister has matured and no longer needs their relationship like she
The beginning of the narrative immediately talks about the absence of the father throughout the weekdays for a long durations. It states “The daylight absence of the men, the fathers, imbued the suburbs with the suspense of desertion.” (Tallent 152) The sentiment expressed in this statement is one that is not so apparent on TV of fathers being gone all day and the mother staying home and taking care of the house. The media only portrays scenes of when families are together which in turn causes both young and old individuals such as Soto to begin to question their family life when in reality there may be nothing wrong with said family but just a misleading images of the
In “The Shawl” a family of five gets separated and faces a horrible loss. This horrible loss is the loss of a nine year old girl’s life. The first father mentioned in the story, that has tuberculosis, finds the nine year old girl’s shawl torn to pieces in the snow. The father pictures the girl’s death as her own mother, Aanakwad, throwing the girl over the edge of the wagon...
Mi Vida Loca means “my crazy life (as a girl).” The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo Park, a group of young Mexican-Americans show what it means to live in the inner city. The film looks at gang lifestyle from a woman’s point of view to uncover relationships, conflicts, gang loyalty, and identity. The “homegirls” portray their female friendships through their daily lives of survival in Echo Park. It is a rough life with almost every “homegirl” having a baby by the time they are twenty-one and almost every “homeboy” being handicapped, killed, or in jail by the time they reach their early twenties. The girls try to become autonomous from the men in their lives by forming their own female gang. The gang culture of Mi Vida Loca reflects and constructs culturally understood gender roles.
The Joad family’s journey to California results in the breakup of their family. The very first cause of the breakup of the individual family was with the loss of their land. The Joad family had lived there for many generations and had very strong ties to the land. Losing their land was equivalent to losing their family history. This is expressed by “She puts them in her pocket, closes the box, stands and with resignation tosses the box on the fire”(Galati 21). It is very evident that ma is reluctant to let her past go. On their journey they lose their first family member, Grampa Joad. This shows that there is a strong connection between a man and his home. Grampa’s great longing for his homeland ultimately resulted in his death.
This importance is not only show in the chapters about the Joad’s, but also in the chapters that follow the movement of thousands of men and women during the Dust Bowl. The Joad family undergoes a transformation throughout the novel. At the start of the novel, the Joad family follows a very traditional family structure, in which the males are the leaders of the family while the females do as the males say. And by the end of the novel the mother is in complete control of the family, while the father is withdrawn from the family and it stuck in thought. This family structure shift helps the Joad’s overcome with the trials of moving west. The traditional family members also shift, families are no longer determined by biological means, but instead families are made through fellowship and kinship. This allows families to grow and become more supportive of each other. This shift gives migrant a boost because they know that they are not alone and that the other migrants will welcome them and support them on their journey to California. Families, and the many changes to families, helps each one of the migrants along on their journey from their farmland to the promise land of
In the book of the Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan. We can see there are many conflicts between mothers and daughters base on culture shock, generation, and misunderstanding, but we still can feel that there is finally rooted in deep love. The culture shock can build a great wall in their relationship due to different values. Also, generation can create a problem between parents and children. Children who born in different generation received different information and education, which will result in misunderstanding with their parents. In this article, I will give three examples to describes three conflicts between mothers and daughters, such as culture shock, different
The average person wants one thing more than anything else, and that thing is to belong. Usha, a young girl from Calcutta, is no different. Already trying the find her place in the world, Usha must now assimilate into cultural society within the United States. Usha’s uncle, Pranab Kaku, came from Calcutta as well having first come to America, his experiences start off worse than Usha’s, which causes him to join the family in an act of social grouping. With the Old World trying to pull them back and the New World just out of reach, both must overcome tradition and develop their own personal values.
A traditional extended family living in Northern India can become acquainted through the viewing of Dadi’s family. Dadi, meaning grandmother in Hindu, lets us explore her family up close and personal as we follow the trials and tribulations the family encounters through a daily basis. The family deals with the span of three generations and their conflicting interpretations of the ideal family life. Dadi lets us look at the family as a whole, but the film opens our eyes particularly on the women and the problems they face. The film inspects the women’s battle to secure their status in their family through dealing with a patriarchal mentality. The women also are seen attempting to exert their power, and through it all we are familiarized to
From a traditional housewife in a white middle-class family, Mother has become a strong woman with independent minds. Her character becomes vivid step by step. Mother and Father represent an ordinary family in society. If their lives can change so much, what about millions of others? Their changes indicate the upcoming revolution taking place in this world.
People no longer hold conversations in person and instead prefer to socialize through technology and social media.
In “Chee’s Daughter” and “Everyday Use”, there is countless examples of how important family is. “Chee’s Daughter” also shows the importance of heritage and culture. In today’s culture, the meaning of family has been lowered. These two short stories define how family is a definite priority and very important.
It is important to note how there is an underlying theme of undercutting the rising female gender role within this movie and also movies of the same type during this era. There is agency in the female character, which is innovative within the era and in the context of globalization. The agency of these female characters is a commodity that is packaged for the consumption of diasporic audiences. This is because to attract foreign investments from NRIs audiences and foreigners, these movie must appeal. And the old outdated ideology of the ruling patriarch should eventually diminish.
she is feeling is connected to her father. Perhaps she is trying to place herself in control
Another equally important reason is people don’t get as much physical interaction, because they are always talking on the internet. People text their frien...