heaven on earth- confusin!

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Posted: 16 years ago
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SPOILER!! dont read if u intend on watchin the movie:)
hey everyone i just went to see heaven on earth starin preity zinta..which i have to say was a good movie had alot of truth in it. It showed another side to woman abuse..reminded me alot about Provoked which was less confusing and straight forward. Whic has me wonderin y Ash didnt win an award because provoked really i thought had the better insight into woman abuse and just like the whole concept ease to understand. While here i was left very very confused...so for those who have it know the endin how she is beaten really badly and taken outside to pull the snake out its hole. but i was very very confused...i dont know the story behind the snake like okay it didnt bite her so she is truthful but what happens after everything goes back to normal??? So if anyone who actually gets the movie help me understand wat happened in the end. And another question is her husband sick like has some diease where he forgets? or something?? like why doesnt he remember that he spent the day with her?? like i was really lost.
So please and thank! i really want to know what happened here lolz
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Posted: 16 years ago
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actually the good side of her husband which later he used to forget is not her husband actually that was chand's imagination, first scene of her imagination's was when she heals him.......she actually imagines all this to forget her pain......her base of the imagination was the king cobra story which her mother told her in the starting of the movie, she imagines king cobra as her husband who is all good to her, as when she first imagines him he was injumred bcz a day before her husband attacked the cobra outside of the home........thats what all i got......

chk this review hope it can help more to understand

Heaven on Earth an eloquent portrayal of a family in trouble

With a deft hand and measured heartache, Deepa Mehta sculpts a small but potent monument to the suffering of abused women in her new film Heaven on Earth.

Mehta brings us into the mental landscape of the abused - where the only escape is imaginary and the only sense of justice is emotionally conjured. This may be the film's biggest victory because it takes us beyond class, ethnicity or gender and makes the pain palpable to everyone.

Bollywood star Zinta and her Canadian co-star Bhardwaj are nothing short of genius, given the inherent challenges of the script, and the precarious balance of empathy, but the whole cast is inspired and brings intimacy to each well-crafted dramatic moment.

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Posted: 16 years ago
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I wish I could help, but I was confused too! Maybe the snake symbolizes something, animals usually symbolize the central theme in literature, so maybe it's the same here! I think Ash was nominated for something for Provoked. I liked her in Provoked, and she did receive loads of critical acclaim, but Preity is just as good in this movie!
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Posted: 16 years ago
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answer for ur this question
but what happens after everything goes back to normal
at the end she leaves the home......
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Posted: 16 years ago
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thank u sooo much for help guys:D
minnie.reetz yaa maybe ur right, its actually make sense, because why would her husband hit....awwww so i swear everything jus sort of makes sense to me now hahaha thanks lolz..i seriously been thinkin about this to hard lolz..but it was a gud gud movie n i did like it..had alot of symmoblism and ya imagination and snake is simply great:) but ya please anyone else who could help me understand add on ur ideas:D
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Posted: 16 years ago
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hi
i watched this movie and the only trouble i had was understanding the punjabi they was speaking
well at first i got confused aswell while watching it because if your remember her husband beats her because he thinks she is having an affair and i was a bit like how can he not remember, well what i understood is the jamaican lady gives her a love potion that the snake has so he falls in love with her, the snake can take a human form so he comes as her husband- because when she looks in the mirror she sees a snake
at the end she leaves him as she has her passport etc the ending is more like a novel it leaves you wanting to know more basically
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Posted: 16 years ago
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The whole movie is symbolic... Chand's mother tells her a story of how the king cobra can take any form and can enter in to a persons life if they wish too. He (king cobra) is strong and could fight for justice and truth. After moving into her new home and new family members she feels isolated. Her husband abuses her mentally and physicallly. that's why she was willing to try the black magic that her Jamican friend offered her. When that didn't work she didn't know what to do... Physologically trying to ecape from the pain of her reality... (the boat symbolizing taking her far away) where it was her first halucination of her husband talking to her sweetly. Towards the end of the movie when she is having the conversation withthe hallucination again, he tells her to fight for the truth... The cobra within her had to fight for the truth... that's why she told the family member that she was willing to put her hand down the hole to prove her innocent.
I thought the movie was amazing. I hope my interpertation of the movie helped.
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Posted: 16 years ago
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ok...what happens is that the snake is Shesh Nag...which can take any form....so when she pours the love potion ...it falls on the snake and he falls in love with her and takes her husband's form....
.....there is proof that the husband that was all loving to Preity was the snake because when the guys's family tells him aabt the snake...he stays outside with the bat and tells his family tht he hit the snake but it got away.............and the next thing u notice is tht snake comes as his husband and his back is hurt....thts from the beating that his husband gave it to the snake........
Hope it makes sense
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Loved the movie.. wish they made more movies like that......
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Posted: 16 years ago
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OMG hahahaha seeragurl07 u jus made my day it all makes sense now thank u SOOO MUCH everyone all ur interuptations jus helped me understand this wonderful movie thank thank u:D

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