A shocking plot secret is thrust on the viewers even as an open mouth kiss between the lead female and her chosen male is on its way -- the male happens to be her enemy, the destroyer of her life.
The theme of the movie appears to be a fear of rain suffered by a blind girl who was raped as a young girl on a rainy night. It is expected to show her sorrows and sufferings. Instead, the film chooses to show us her big, blouse-tearing breasts at every plausible moment. Rain, fear, phobia, blindness -- these are just psychological props used in the story to thrash out the main elements of the script: lust and sexuality.
The film is really about a rapist, and his theories of sex and rape, a man who can't differentiate between being a eunuch and being impotent. He is made to take several guises to cheat the girl -- rapist, social worker, journalist, psychiatrist, and her dream lover. He thinks there is no such thing as 'rape' among animals, where the males impose themselves on the females and make them enjoy sex. This, he claims, was true when he raped the blind girl who in his opinion enjoyed its conclusion, as proved by her growing silence during the act. But she won't admit it now, so he says.
Full free play is given to the male who goes about terrorising his chosen victim with ease, verbalising his thoughts and what he wants. The only thing that can be done in the script is to kill him. Just as it happens among a species where the female kills the male after sex, so says the blind girl, taking the theory of animal sex to its conclusion.
It is a weak argument, for it happens only in that species, and not all. So is the theory of animal sex alright for us? The weak point of the story is that its plot revolves around the male trying to beget a child from the blind girl to prove his manhood, and not lust or sex that both he and the girl are actually shown as interested in. The filmmakers don't appear to have made up their minds, and the story falls down here, for the viewer can't make sense of all this mess. The customary end sees the girl take her revenge and get the final word in -- that force can't be used to obtain favours.
It wouldn't be too far fetched to claim that the blindness of the girl character was exploited by the script, to run the plot around, and the film, to show the actress' body.
A glimpse of the comical and the non-sensical elements in the story:
The theme of the movie appears to be a fear of rain suffered by a blind girl who was raped as a young girl on a rainy night. It is expected to show her sorrows and sufferings. Instead, the film chooses to show us her big, blouse-tearing breasts at every plausible moment. Rain, fear, phobia, blindness -- these are just psychological props used in the story to thrash out the main elements of the script: lust and sexuality.
The film is really about a rapist, and his theories of sex and rape, a man who can't differentiate between being a eunuch and being impotent. He is made to take several guises to cheat the girl -- rapist, social worker, journalist, psychiatrist, and her dream lover. He thinks there is no such thing as 'rape' among animals, where the males impose themselves on the females and make them enjoy sex. This, he claims, was true when he raped the blind girl who in his opinion enjoyed its conclusion, as proved by her growing silence during the act. But she won't admit it now, so he says.
Full free play is given to the male who goes about terrorising his chosen victim with ease, verbalising his thoughts and what he wants. The only thing that can be done in the script is to kill him. Just as it happens among a species where the female kills the male after sex, so says the blind girl, taking the theory of animal sex to its conclusion.
It is a weak argument, for it happens only in that species, and not all. So is the theory of animal sex alright for us? The weak point of the story is that its plot revolves around the male trying to beget a child from the blind girl to prove his manhood, and not lust or sex that both he and the girl are actually shown as interested in. The filmmakers don't appear to have made up their minds, and the story falls down here, for the viewer can't make sense of all this mess. The customary end sees the girl take her revenge and get the final word in -- that force can't be used to obtain favours.
It wouldn't be too far fetched to claim that the blindness of the girl character was exploited by the script, to run the plot around, and the film, to show the actress' body.
A glimpse of the comical and the non-sensical elements in the story:
- The girl's pregnancy is not proof enough of the man's normalcy. - The girl gives birth to a still baby. The male's wife blames the girl. Yet, later the male comes back to the blind girl saying that his wife blames him for the still baby. - It is the male who is engaged in shocking, criminal and aberrant practices, full of lust. Yet the script allows only the girl to be described as 'abnormal' and a 'sex-maniac', when all that she does is explore herself.