In india the people were poor and didn’t have any type of luxury goods. One striking element that I noticed at the beginning of the movie is how life in India and Queens are completely different(Their customs are different and the way people act are different). The Namesake was a pretty interesting movie. I feel also as I watch the Ganguli family that my own family has no such affection or warmth or commitment to ritual, that the environment I grew up in required that one turn inward, one might prefer to read or study than be part of the larger family society which seemed again cold, awkward, unwelcoming. For example, for me the most striking elements in the film are the visual elements meaning the shots of Calcutta, New York City, the Taj Mahal, the bridges in both countries as well as the more subtle suggestions of class, family dynamics, food, structures of intimacy that Mira Nair zeroes in on - such as the morning that Ashima wakes up for the first time in the States wherein it is apparent she is completely lost, devastated, homesick, a child really in a foreign land where she can’t turn on the stove, where she is intrigued by the social climate at the laundromat, the cold, the grey, the snow, the relative silence in the street. Please write a post in which you discuss striking moments in the film ‘The Namesake.’ Try to locate conceptually or intuitively something that the film gives you.
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