"Blessing" - the video.

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Imtiaz Dharkers poem is about a water pipe bursting in the city where she lives in India and how, because the water is so precious, people from all round rush to collect it before it is washed out.

The location of the poem “Blessing” is Dharavi near Bombay, it is the largest slum in Asia.  Imtiaz dharker spent a large part of her life there.  Bombay is known as the city of dreams, people and migrants come from all over to live there, but to us who live in a rich country life there would be squalid.

The director of the film “Blessing” shows the difference between our cultures with the vibrant costumes and also how significant water is to survival, a commodity we take for granted.

The director immediately emphasises the sense of drought with the dry baked earth and the empty brittle vessel dropping to the ground, breaking into pieces.  This imagery highlights the fragility and dryness.  It is the peoples desire in Dharavi to “imagine the drip of it, the small splash echo in a tin mug”

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At the start of the film there is a visual element of colours.  The colours are earthy and lifeless, a persistent attempt by the director to convey a severe lack of moisture.  The director uses a medium close up (mcu) shot of a boy falling to the dry fractured land.  This represents the feeling of desperation, despair almost giving up life.

A cricket can be heard in the background as the film begins.  This conjures a mental picture of a dry, hot desert like environment where such insects are found.

To express the boys imagination that he is thinking about ...

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