Sex Philosophy and Sprituality ....

i have always had this bad habbit of using my frenzz as intellectual dustbins .... This was a mail I wrote and forwded to all my frenz after 9i saw this movie ...SCREAM OF ANTS ... in Osian Film Festival in 2006
Just thought of sharing it with you all..... :)

SCREAM OF ANTS .....is by Mohsen Makhmalbaf ....a superb Iranian director...... who is known for his subtle n layery treatment of subjects ... lemme first introduce you to the concept n plot of this beautiful movie .......
The film is about three different flavours of life ie sex ...philosophy /sprituality and socio economic truths......The female protagonist, highly spiritual n religious falls in luv wid an atheist ...... embedded in luv is a hidden desire to explore and discover thru each other extreme heights of Spirituality and Communism ..... they plan their honeymoon trip to India which will turn out to be a land of new discoveries for both of them..Girl seeks a spiritual refuge and the man wants to know, how satisfyin (socially n ecnomically) a land with 33 million gods is ???

Their questions ... the answers dey seek and logic they unfold to answer each other is the content of d movie .... each night lady seeks her husband to satisfy her physically but the man does all .....except the very moment of utter pleasure ..... he wud do all..... to not let her wife conceive .....for he believes ....... to be a father is to accept that this world has satisfied him enough to believe ........that earth is a lovely place to be at .....and he wants to reproduce and bring a third life to this place ...... .... Tthe man however is not convinced with all thats happenin around ... with poverty n grief he sees in india ....they make him question as to how can ppl afford to .. laugh n smile in this country ... a large many of them simply do not know ....what it means to live like a human being. They are merely existenin..... This according to him is an unjust world ......and ITS A CRIME TO REPRODUCE for this place .... each night comes n goes with a desire of fertile orgasm for d lady and uneasy questions fr d man ... he innovates new ways to satisfy her but fails to surrender him for finality ......the constant clash btwn search n hope.... lust n materialism .... goes on ....orgasm is symbolic of their search for ultimate truth...

They land up at serein land of gods .......Varanasi ... and try to seek a final answer ...
Director has captured growse and cruel scenes of dead bodies floatin in GANGA .... and ppl bein burned ..... indian spirituality n concept of death n rebirth has been explained as against communist belief of world being a man made misery ......... film ends with both of dem gettin a note dat says .... amgst all chaos n crude realities .. at times .....touch of a flower or a dew drop is all...... dat might give u beautiful moment of happiness n satisfaction ....... Does she conceive .... does he surrender....... is for us to make out .....
For me the movie was full of questions and it ends by leaving us to seek as many answers as we can to each thread of thought ......