The Quarrel Essay

The geographical elements in these six films have many things in common. They share both similarities and differences between them. In comparing and contrasting, the geographical elements in each film with the three approaches given to us, we will be able to read and understand them in greater heights.
The quarrel is a story about two holocaust survivors Chaim and Hersh that meet by chance after few years and recollect and argue about their youth and past. Their conversation gradually evolves into a quarrel about God, the Torah and the world. This film follows a journey motif, this is a key aspect in the mythological approach of reading religious films. As they embark on their common journey, we see how they evolve psychological and we witness …show more content…
In almost every scene in the film, there is a shot of water but throughout the film, it means different things. Water serves as a spot of burial for both Chuyia’s husband and Kalyani and it serves as a source of purification as we see different people wash their clothes and bathe there daily. It is also a means of travel when we see Chuyia and Kalyani go across it to Narayan’s father house. In the Hinduism, holy places are usually located at the banks of rivers, it is where sacred rituals are performed. Water is very important in the cycle of life and that is why Kalyani chooses to go to the river to sacrifice herself. Before she performs the sacrifice, she takes off her ornaments and washes herself with water. By doing so she purifies herself because widows in this religion are polluted. As she sacrifices herself, she hopes that she will be reborn as a better form and the title of the film, water symbolizes life. But it involves not just one life but life after life after …show more content…
Before we even see him, we see his space and we notice how clothes and books are littered across the space. This space gives us an insight and idea of the type of person he is. He is suddenly woken by the sound of the alarm clock, as he sits up on the bed, the camera cuts from our point of view to Chaim’s point of view which gazes through the window and outside his room. The camera slowly zooms in to what he is particularly looking at, a cross. The next shot is a medium close up of Chaim’s face and we notice the disappointing look on his face. This scene gives us an insight into the character’s relationship with his religion, the distance between Chaim and the cross, foreshadows his distant relationship with God and his religion. The cross which is a key iconography in Jewish religion, represents his faith here. However, he is able to ignore this view and move on, in contrary to the next