Comments on: The Namesake http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/the-namesake/ Science, astronomy, politics, movies, and various minutiae. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Ridger http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/the-namesake/comment-page-1/#comment-13812 The Ridger Sat, 19 May 2007 17:11:46 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=168#comment-13812 I really enjoyed this movie - and I agree with Anne-Marie. The gap between the immigrants and their children was as big as between them and the country they had moved to. Although Ashira made a good life for her children, I was not surprised that in the end she returned to India. On the other hand, I think it was her years in America that made her able to pursue her new life on her terms... The movie started a lot of thinking. I really enjoyed this movie – and I agree with Anne-Marie. The gap between the immigrants and their children was as big as between them and the country they had moved to. Although Ashira made a good life for her children, I was not surprised that in the end she returned to India. On the other hand, I think it was her years in America that made her able to pursue her new life on her terms…

The movie started a lot of thinking.

]]> By: Anne-Marie http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/the-namesake/comment-page-1/#comment-6166 Anne-Marie Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:30:05 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=168#comment-6166 May I add my 2 cents? It is not only the adaptation that we, immigrants, have to make, it is also the gap between our own culture and the one of our children. As immigrants, we have to break from our world twice. The first time when we try to adapt to our new environment and the second when we realize that our children are Americans with almost no connection to our own childhood, our own background. Mira Nair shows that gap in a family that is tolerant, she does not dwell on the crisis that it can create. We, immigrants, abandoned our roots when we left our country and re-live this abandonment when our flesh and blood do not understand us. May I add my 2 cents? It is not only the adaptation that we, immigrants, have to make, it is also the gap between our own culture and the one of our children. As immigrants, we have to break from our world twice. The first time when we try to adapt to our new environment and the second when we realize that our children are Americans with almost no connection to our own childhood, our own background. Mira Nair shows that gap in a family that is tolerant, she does not dwell on the crisis that it can create. We, immigrants, abandoned our roots when we left our country and re-live this abandonment when our flesh and blood do not understand us.

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