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    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

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    Date: 11 Jun 2015 11:14:00
    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    Earth (1998)
    DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 | 01:41:11 | 3,89 Gb
    Audio: Hindi-Urdu-Punjabi AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (single track) | Subs: English
    Genre: Drama, Romance, War

    Director: Deepa Mehta
    Stars: Aamir Khan, Babby Singh, Kitu Gidwani

    The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.

    Mehta's Elements trilogy:
    1. Fire (1996)
    2. Earth (1998)
    3. Water (2005)

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    Earth is the second part of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy, preceded by Fire (1996) and followed by Water (2005).

    Opening in Lahore in 1947, it follows the effects of the partition of India and Pakistan after Britain's overly hasty and irresponsible withdrawal from India after having declared its independence. Earth is much more politically focused than Fire and yet, unfortunately, does not have the same strength in its recreation of situations or character development.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    Nonetheless, it is an interesting film which attempts to portray such a difficult historical period which shaped the future of both India and Pakistan and which, amongst many other events, the not-so-distant 1992 riots and 1993 bombings in Bombay (now Mumbai), show that neither has yet recovered from.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    Once again Mehta uses a local setting as a mirror of the wider political and social context. Earth follows a group of friends, and the eight-year-old girl Lenny, living in Lahore whose strong friendship has developed without need for religious branding and yet without denying difference. Amidst the group are Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Parsees and Christians. The effect of the political climate slowly erodes and questions their friendship and we see how they are forced into, often brutal, conflict with one another.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    It is a film about how imposed political decisions can tear apart communities which had reached their own internal balance and, following a group of individuals, it chronicles one of the scars of India and Pakistan's history.
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    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    What Mehta seems to be telling us is that contrary to popular (Western) belief, the world did not get smaller over the last 100 years. She makes it abundantly clear that for some people, the world became a whole lot more foreboding, that for every wall that got knocked down, plenty of new ones were thrown up to take their place. Overall, then, this is a very impressive film, occasionally falling into symbolic traps that it seems to set for itself but still creating a lush, visually rich portrait of a short time defined in equal part by radical promise and bloodshed.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    The film opens in 1947 and centres around a prosperous family of Parsees living in Lahore (now part of Pakistan). The Parsees have always been small in number and for that and other reasons are generally thought of as neutral in the Hindu-Muslim-Sikh conflicts. Throughout the film, we see the tumultuous events of 1947, such as independence, partition, ethnic rioting, mass migration and the preparation for war, through the eyes of Lenny, an eight-year-old Parsee who has a close relationship with her Hindu nanny, Shantra. One of their regular haunts is a symbolically-loaded park, where a group of young men, some Hindu, some Muslim, some Sikh, all sit around and talk. As the political climate heats up, the conversations in the park become less genial, Lenny becomes more and more confused, and the who region slowly slips into a morass of violence and resentment.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    The detail with which this conflict is presented is impressive; geopolitical manoeuvring is certainly central to the film, but equally important are the little rituals and hypocrisies that defined upper middle class life on 1940s India. The scenes where Lenny plays with her friends, lolls around with Shanta achieve a very tender lyricism that is tough to keep from turning into sentimentality when you're dealing with a little kid. One scene where Lenny, sitting in the back seat of a car, is accidentally driven into a small riot by her arguing parents, is especially notable for the way that Mehta covers a truly insane range of emotions with smoothness and depth. The power of this film, then, lies very much in its details, in the wholeness and density of the world it creates. Earth is very much about Lahore, and what it means to grow up and live there during a specific historical period. Compared to how totally the film is about Lahore, it's barely at all about what it means to be Indian or Pakistani. Nation is the ever-present topic of the narrative, but in terms of understanding the richly developed inner life of the characters, national considerations hardly every appear on the radar screen. This paradox is what give the film such life, such mystery, and what makes it seem so vibrant a part of the post-national cinema that we can see emerging over the last decade.

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    That said, Mehta occasionally goes astray with heavy-handed allegorical gestures. The above mentioned park is a minor example of this, although Mehta resists the urge to go overload these images with symbolic value. One scene where her metaphorical impulse gets the better of her, though, is when the neutral Parsee family hosts a dinner attended by a pompous, tuxedoed Briton, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim, as the young, naive Lenny plays underneath the table. Guess what: the dinner chat soon turns to politics and an angry, violent dispute breaks out among the guests. I'm also not totally sure what to make of the closing sequence [read no further if you do not want the end spoiled], when Lenny is tricked into betraying Shanta, who is dragged from her house by a crazed band of Muslim rioters. Are we supposed to take from this that apolitical innocents often do more harm than they intend to? It's clear that Lenny, the child from a historically neutral ethnic group, is supposed to be symbolic of something (but what, exactly?), and the nastiness of this final betrayal that she is hoodwinked into makes her seem especially central to the madness and consequent loss of innocence that has engulfed the region. Again, two problems with this: I'm not crazy about the use of a young girl as a symbol for the woes of the subcontinent, and I'm not sure how coherently this symbol is even developed (it's just sort of invoked but never explained, unlike the much-too-clear symbolism of the dinner party).

    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

    One aspect of the film that more than makes up for these shortcomings, though, is its look. Mehta's cinematographer Giles Nuttgens has done an excellent job of expressing the intensity of Lahore without going overboard on the in romanticism. Like the careful way that Mehta shows us the details of everyday life, the images in Earth are obsessively framed and sumptuously photographed. Earth has its problems, but none of them are enough to detract from the fact that this is a beautiful, heartfelt and heartbreaking film about the passing of a truly trans-national Asia.
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    Earth (1998) [Re-UP]

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