While people recommended I go and see the box office hit "Avengers," I picked to go and see "Mighty Fine" and did not regret it. It will strike you if you are a man from a desi culture. Though based in the mid-1970s of America, it precisely strikes the male psyche of desi men or maybe all men.
How man has been raised by their fathers to behave like a man - and how this teaching sometimes gets internalized - later manifests as episodic bouts of anger and destroys families!
The story revolves around a Jewish family - where the 'man of the house' is trying his best or overdoing to make his wife and daughters happy. But he slowly succumbs to the stress of dying business, and his rage takes a toll on his family's peace. Slowly climax gets built up to the point where he contemplates suicide.
This movie provides an opportunity to reflect on all men trying to balance their work and family. Sometimes Mighty is not fine! (he needs to verbalize, communicate and talk about his problems to his loved ones)!
See Trailer here
How man has been raised by their fathers to behave like a man - and how this teaching sometimes gets internalized - later manifests as episodic bouts of anger and destroys families!
The story revolves around a Jewish family - where the 'man of the house' is trying his best or overdoing to make his wife and daughters happy. But he slowly succumbs to the stress of dying business, and his rage takes a toll on his family's peace. Slowly climax gets built up to the point where he contemplates suicide.
This movie provides an opportunity to reflect on all men trying to balance their work and family. Sometimes Mighty is not fine! (he needs to verbalize, communicate and talk about his problems to his loved ones)!
See Trailer here
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2 comments:
Interesting. I do not go to movies any more but have an Islamic perspective I have been recently contemplating. Qur'an states, ....The women shall have similar rights against them according to what is ma'aroof....the men have a slight edge of rights on women...." (Not exact translation of verse 228 S. Albaqara. I guess from ahadeeth also there is encouragement to consult your family (wife) as the prophet himself did for xample at the time of Hudaibiya.
I didn't know about this historical fact...
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