Cultural Perspective: Water

In the film, Water, it was difficult for the women to feel like everyone else while they were cooped up in one place. Since they were all widows, they weren't allowed to remarry or be with anyone else. You could tell some of the women wanted to remarry. They wanted to move on from feeling like they meant nothing. Especially the women who became a widow at a very young age. Men knew they couldn't marry the women who were a widow because it was a sin. If someone remarried, they would be cursed by doing so. The women would clean themselves with water to take away evil. They also used water as holy water to heal the sick. The water took away pain from people whether it was mentally or physically.