Post by spaceflower on Mar 8, 2015 16:00:53 GMT
But I will watch it on TV tonight. It is aired today b/c it is the International Women's Day.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05534p0
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/06/indias-daughter-delhi-rape
The victim's life started well. Her birth was celebrated "just as if they've had a son". The parents sold their land in ordet that their daughter should have a university education. But the rapists did not consider that women should have the right to go to university or being out at night. Any women out at night was fair game, even if she had a boy friend with her.
Some criticized the fact that a rapist was interviewed and had his say.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31749868
The story of the brutal gang rape and murder of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, and the unprecedented protests and riots which this horrific event ignited throughout India, leading to the demand for changes in attitudes towards women. The film examines the values and mindsets of the rapists, and interviews the two lawyers who defended the men convicted of Jyoti's rape and murder.
The banning of the film (because of shocking interviews with one of the rapists and his lawyer, who in effect argued that the woman had asked for it by resisting and being in public places at 9pm) has been justified on the grounds that it provides a platform for the most appalling and regressive views, and amounts to an incitement of violence against women.
The Indian government’s real concerns are less about the safety of women than the international image of the country. They worry that the documentary will continue to present India in a bad light rather than showcase its achievements and new government. (The fact that such achievements – especially for women – are few and hard to find is not really considered.)
The Indian government’s real concerns are less about the safety of women than the international image of the country. They worry that the documentary will continue to present India in a bad light rather than showcase its achievements and new government. (The fact that such achievements – especially for women – are few and hard to find is not really considered.)
The victim's life started well. Her birth was celebrated "just as if they've had a son". The parents sold their land in ordet that their daughter should have a university education. But the rapists did not consider that women should have the right to go to university or being out at night. Any women out at night was fair game, even if she had a boy friend with her.
Some criticized the fact that a rapist was interviewed and had his say.
But the father of the victim described the film as "the bitter truth" and said everyone should watch it.
"If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free," he told NDTV.
"If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free," he told NDTV.