Purification is the process of rendering something pure, i.e. clean of foreign elements and/or pollution. In this film, the village elders purify all young girls to make them fit for marriage. Some die as a result, but that's just too bad. It is like the young men and women who must die to purify the world in the image of the neocons now in power in America. We must purify the World.
Let's not mince words here. Purification in this film is genital mutilation, performed on children without their consent for some archaic, often wrongly held beliefs, reason. Death can be the result, as they do it in this film with some bloody, dirty knives.
The basis of the film is one woman who manages to say no and protect four children who ran away. Two others ran away, but they were most likely caught and murdered. Sure, the film says otherwise, but we often don't hear the whole truth - like when our leaders say America doesn't torture.
Yes, she suffers tremendous pain for what she is doing, but fortunately Mel Gibson didn't make this film or it would have been much worse. In the end, there is a new respect for human rights as the village rises up against the murdering elders and puts them in their place.
If you care at all about what is happening in many parts of the world and the effect it has on women, then this is a "must-see" film.
Let's not mince words here. Purification in this film is genital mutilation, performed on children without their consent for some archaic, often wrongly held beliefs, reason. Death can be the result, as they do it in this film with some bloody, dirty knives.
The basis of the film is one woman who manages to say no and protect four children who ran away. Two others ran away, but they were most likely caught and murdered. Sure, the film says otherwise, but we often don't hear the whole truth - like when our leaders say America doesn't torture.
Yes, she suffers tremendous pain for what she is doing, but fortunately Mel Gibson didn't make this film or it would have been much worse. In the end, there is a new respect for human rights as the village rises up against the murdering elders and puts them in their place.
If you care at all about what is happening in many parts of the world and the effect it has on women, then this is a "must-see" film.