Sep 5, 2023
I'm so shocked to see that this horrible piece has more recongition than it deserves, but, on the other hand, I'm very happy that I will only be the second one to review it.
A story follows a small village in Asia, where there lives a family of farmers. Neither of them know how to read or how to write.
Later throughout this short movie we follow Mina (the wife/mother), as she tries to find the hospital to refill her husband's medicine (that later turns out to be pesticide)
Before reaching the clinic, Mina faces a huge amount of humiliation, fear and confusion, which is an unrealistic fantasy
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for many people.
This piece also poorly and blatantly shows at other probles (husband first being so against the idea of his children or Mina going to the school, saying stuff like „What about the farm?” or „Why would you want that when you have this and that…”, also hinting that everyone will laugh at her cause she is "too old" and "it's too late for her"
Only too late in the story does he really comes to a realization of how important being literate is in today's world just when it comes to money (they were getting inexpensive deals and inadvertently ripping off the others in the area)
Which all blatantly hints at the opression that (especilly) poor women face.
At the end, Mina decides to face her fears and after crying about how frustrated she is because of the judgement she faced and how unprotected she felt she decides to attend the village school.
After that, we see that the school is attended by many people of "younger" age, which is stupid and demotivating, since there is never such thing as "being too old" when it comes to learning, bettering yourself and going along with the cards that "the life has dealt you."
This is a horrifyingly bad story I would recommend to no-one, of any age, because it does a poor job shining light on a big problem (ignored by a huge portion of people) which is illiteracy (in this case focused on Asia and the Pacific, but can be related to any other country with this problem in the world)
There are many failed important messages in it, such as the comment that the teacher made to women learning to write and read, („You don't want to sign something you know nothing about) which is a huge problem in many countries (especially where the husband "takes the lead" and uses woman's illiteracy to his advantage (example: signing surrogacy papers))
There are many instances where it is shown how vile and impatient people are with iliterate people, which is something a lot of us turn the blind eye on.
The animation is trite and cold, unexpected from something that came out in the 1992, and many would agree it's nothing special. But i personally DESPISE this animation style very much
All in all, keep sleeping on this one. It's a mockery-of-art style piece that should be pushed to the side.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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