Originally posted by: TheBoss
She wasn't happy. She was slowly suffocating. What did she owe to these people to sign up to do that? She married someone who she didn't know and never spent time with them. They were definitely choking the life out of her and she was roaming around scared shitless. Doing stuff for your husband is one thing. Doing it under duress with some hard ass ex army vet as your father in law who is dictating how you dress up and how you live this is slow death. She didn't owe anything to them.
I don't think you have seen the movie, her husband was an army official who was called on by his nation to defend the border when the enemy attacked so he left his wife and went to defend his country. During the battle her husband went MIA (Missing in Action). All of the townspeople and her family members (except father-in-law) believed that he had died since he hadn't returned for a long time, but her father-in-law refused to believe that his son is dead. The father-in-law was of belief that until his sons dead body is shown to him, he is MIA and not dead so he expected his daughter-in-law to follow all the traditions that a married woman should follow.
How do you determine that she wasn't happy? Suffocating how?
"She married someone who she didn't know and never spent time with them." This is called arranged marriage, in the past many men and women were married in this manner (where they didn't meet or talk to one another), its not like today where the man and woman meet and are able to determine if they would like to married or not.
She wasn't scared shitless, she was respecting her father-in-law by being courteous as he was the elder of the household. She was joking around with her sister-in-law and playing with nephew.
What was she doing under duress? She was dressing as a married woman rather than a widow to respect her father-in-law. Nobody threatened her or forced her to do anything against her will. Her father-in-law never told her how to dress, all he told her to do was live like a married woman. Well they did provide a roof, clothes, food, cared for her, should they have thrown her out of the house because her husband was MIA and/or dead? They didn't have to let her live with them, what did they owe her?
Edited by rajdoot - 9 years ago