in the beginning of the movie the namesake, Ashima gives up her friends, her family, and her entire country to marry a man that she meets for the first time. this is what their families want them to do. this is what they are expected to do.
i would rather give up my husband than give up my life. maybe that's why american marriages fail so much, or maybe i'm just not ready for that.
the point of the movie, however, did not strike me as being about gender as much as it was about freedom. at the end, Gogol goes off to travel, and be free. i want to travel like that and be free for a while.
the namesake was a good movie. it made me want to be free.
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