Earth

Earth

1998
Drama
1h 50m
Deepa Mehta directed this stirring tale -- the second movie in a trilogy preceded by Fire and followed by Water -- about the religious and civil wars that broke out in India and Pakistan in the 1947 battle to gain independence from the British. Earth is based on the autobiographical novel Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa and is told through the eyes of a little girl, Lenny (Maia Sethna), who has one leg in a brace. (Netflix)
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Earth

1998
Drama
1h 50m
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Rated 20 Mar 2007
75
34th
A decent allegory with likeable characters. Nothing really stood out though.
Rated 24 Jan 2010
53
36th
Tries too hard to be intelligent and artsy and leaves little impact overall.
Rated 26 May 2010
80
78th
An interesting perspective on the wars between India and Pakistan. The part of the plot that showed how a group of friends with different religions/races/backgrounds essentially splitting along with the war was especially interesting to me and were a great way of looking at it. Glad I got to see it in a class because I never would have even heard of it otherwise.
Rated 02 May 2019
65
62nd
The history about what happened is much more interesting than the story we are given here. Most of the characters have little depth and mostly the film is just about one or more of the characters standing around and watching the tragedy unfold while offering bits of commentary. Since I didn't find the characters themselves interesting I had a hard time getting invested. This was a terrible time period full of tragedy ...

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