In The Land Of Women
-Written and directed by
Jonathan Kasdan
It’s strange how sometimes we find it easier to pour our hearts out to some people we know hardly anything about, because we don’t have the fear of them judging us, or coming to a conclusion based on earlier facts because in such cases there are generally none, which makes it so much easier to share.‘In the Land of women’ is one such story of human relations where we find how a person can share personal space with a stranger without even knowing them. People sometimes have so many thoughts or in this case problems or issues you may also refer to them as, burning inside them, dying to emerge, to resurface and when surrounded by same old people who know you and whom how close you may be, but still face this reluctance to share due to obvious reasons, but once you cross the threshold of withholding things anymore, you seek that one person you can pour your heart out without even wondering later what impression that might have left. All you feel is a wonderful feeling of light headedness and satisfaction though you know anything is not resolved yet.
In this movie that stranger is ‘Carter’ who comes to live with his granny in an unknown neighborhood where he meets Meg Ryan as ‘Sarah’ and her daughter. The movie explores very finest of human relations and for those who might mistake it for something else, even explains it well in a letter that Carter writes.
You might not find it really full packaged movie that one might prefer to watch again and again, but for philosophical fools like me, the movie might present itself to you in even more than what just the scenes describe. You might just need a little emotional edge to decipher that.
