To start off this years South Asian Film Festival at UW-La Crosse was the shocking and horrifying documentary called “India’s Daughter.” This moving 2015 documentary covers the infamous gang rape and murder of a bright young woman in South Delhi, India in 2012, who was returning home from the movies at night with a friend. Throughout this film, there are testimonies from her attackers, family, friends, and lawyers that explain what had happened, and how this case is being handled. The whole purpose of this film was to show viewers the challenges that women have to face daily, how they are overcoming these issues, and how the people are demanding change for women’s rights. At the end of the film, there was an hour of discussion that went anywhere from the films message, what can be done to stop this issue, what is happening to the individuals today, etc.
Before attending this event, I already had some background knowledge about India’s culture and society due to my high school education and my personal interest towards this subject. For fun I would often view other films or documentaries about these issues that women have to deal with, the most decent video had been discussing the issue of India’s missing daughters. In that part of Asia, it is seen that having boys are better and that girls are second class citizens, …show more content…
The way that certain people responded towards this incident, mostly the males, was no surprise as many of them consider a women’s place to be in the house and if they are out and about then she needs to be “taught” a lesson. This just shows how closed minded many of these men are, they need to realize that what they do to women can damage them physically and mentally. No one has ever asked to be raped, so what gives these men the thought in their minds that they have the right to even lay a hand on a
Before attending this event, I already had some background knowledge about India’s culture and society due to my high school education and my personal interest towards this subject. For fun I would often view other films or documentaries about these issues that women have to deal with, the most decent video had been discussing the issue of India’s missing daughters. In that part of Asia, it is seen that having boys are better and that girls are second class citizens, …show more content…
The way that certain people responded towards this incident, mostly the males, was no surprise as many of them consider a women’s place to be in the house and if they are out and about then she needs to be “taught” a lesson. This just shows how closed minded many of these men are, they need to realize that what they do to women can damage them physically and mentally. No one has ever asked to be raped, so what gives these men the thought in their minds that they have the right to even lay a hand on a