Directed by: Niuma Mohamed
Feminism cinema theory: Women and man should have
equal rights and Equity between their social role and other wants.
In This Movie the victim Niuma and her
mother are not given any opportunity to express their feelings. They have to
follow whatever Niuma’s father does. He abused her Child since she was only 5
years. And her mother knows about it. And She is scared of her husband even
though he was doing very wrong. Every time she asks him to stop abusing their
daughter he slaps on her face and he is violently repeating it by time to
time. Even Niuma is not allowed to have friends and she is not allowed to
talk a boy either. And if she is not allowed to continue her studies. when
she try to escape from there is a wide
long shot.
Lighting is
more like natural, to show that is daytime. Wide shot is to make suspense,
and audience may have a quick dilemma, that what is going to happen next.
After 50 second she felt down and found her
father in front. And here it shows a close up and this camera angle is to
show the anger.
Whatever the
father, and her brother does, mother dint do anything; she gets angry when Niuma asks her to
make it stop. But later Niuma stands
against her mother and keep scolding her.
This camera
angle and shot is created to show the conversation between two parties, and
Niuma’s facial expression. Even the audience can feel sad and disappointed
emotions, of her mother. Female
Director plus Actress (Niuma) She made these kind of scenes to create
awareness to raise voice against the child abuse and domestic violence among
those cultures where child mishandling, rape, violence cases are hidden.
Female director has tried to shape awareness to feminism among young males. In
anothe scene, victim’s eldest brother’s best friend who had crush on
Niuma. And he proposed her. Later he found that she is being abusing from her
very young age by her own brother and her father. But still this guy keep on
trying to make Niuma as his girl friend and he tried to convince her how to
get ride of her father’s violent evil arms. This part of the movie has showed
the youth that victims should be given a chance to live happily and they
should have been given courage to report about the abuse case.
This camera
angle shows the empathy he feels to niuma, but niuma gave this expression to
show that she cannot trust any man.
As related to
feminism theory, Niuma’s boy friend had trouble in reporting this case
because he found that Numa’s father is very respectable rich person in that village
and he is being v religious and very socialized helpful person in the
community. Female Director has showed the hierarchy feminism. Just because
this guy is rich and community respectable person, so people around him do
not have the guts to report it or either to ask him to stop it.
In another
scene Niuma’s Brother (Yoosuf Shafeeu) feels pity about his one and only own
sister. And the pain that she always try to hide is busted to his wife Sheela
Najib.
Niuma’s brother and sister in law ( She is crying, asking him to make his father’s to stop his evil behavior)
Normaly in
this movie director has this kind of camera angles to show the feelings and
emotions of the actress. And two person in the frame to make it more
influential and connected to the audience. The lighting is spot lighted to
Sheela’s face to show how much she cared about the situation and how scared
she is.
Here it comes
one of the most social issue among mostly Asian which we found from ages ago,
and no one blames. I n this movie Sheela
found that Niuma is living in very helpless darken situation; she forced her
husband to stop it. But all the right is given to his father and he is afraid
of his father, and he wanted to keep their families reputation by hiding this
evil truth. In this part Director has given a message to public, that the
reputation of family are not less important than women’s right. And later
Yoosuf Shafeeu’s wife, she stands against it very strongly and she left the
house and moved to her own place. That makes her husband to do something
about his father and his brother. Sheela has hold on it so tight, to make him
believe that Niuma deserves a better life.
And his father and his brother must get punished. sheAs a result he
managed to try that, but he failed two times, and every time his wife gives
him courage to win it. With the help of him Niuma and her mother stand
against those two who raped Niuma. Even though no one had the guts to
report. But Niuma cannot hold her
anger, and she killed her father before reporting police.
Shot1 ( brother is trying to rape her) shot2 (she is raped )
Shot 1, is a
wide shot to show that he is trying to rape her, even though she is trying to
escape. Camera angle shows that he
don’t care about it and he is too into it.
Shot 2, it
shows how she felt after she is being raped by her own brother. This shot
shows the audience that she is hurt and helpless. Basically the weakness of
women. Again the light is natural to make it believe it is v realistic.
After he is
beaten and killed Niuma herself went to police station and reported it.
This Angle and camera movements make the
audience to judge what she is doing is correct or wrong. Director shows a
wide shot from her back and then this medium close-up from in front. She
never showed the police station. So her cinema technique is to create
suspense. And the lightings make the make up more realistic.
( she is going to the police station)
This wide
shot and the lightings are make it feel that it’s midnight and she killed her
father at this silence hour. And the wid shot is to show the police station
and to make the audience more clear about what she is doing. In these areas
Director has convinces that, Women’s weakness’ is something they hold on. And
Niuma has been holding her weakness for so long. After a great influence of
her brother and sister-in –law, she changed her belief and moved on.
Female director has played a great role to
make awareness of sexual harassments. And in Maldives 1 person per 3 is a
victim of Domestic violence or sexual abuses. So the female Director has
played a very important role in letting the locked doors open. And also it
has opened a gateway to reveille what ever happens behind those locked doors.
Director has pictured realism in cinemas. Movie is based on feminism and she
has tried to prove that women should have the freedom of decision-making and
women should not be dependable to those kinds of husbands or fathers.
“ Millions of
innocent lives are better than one man”.
Director has
mainly focused on extra close-up shots to show the victims fear for, her
father, mother, and another brother who raped her. And it gives impact to
society to feel sympathy towards victims. And the lightings setup kept the object dark
to make it scary. And it gives impact of a realism situation to the audience.
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