Freedom is a common theme in art, whether from the reigns of society or from our own personal bondage.A woman's freedom is my story and two films speak to me on this; Subira (2008) a short film by Ravneet Chadha and Easy Virtue (2008) starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth.
They label the heroine, naughty or avante-garde for being how men can freely be.
Easy Virtue however was able to explore more issues, being a full-feature film. It touched on the ghosts of soldier survivors, the loss or capture of youth in marriage, the absoluteness of love. I like these themes. They aren't so common. But they are just as pertinent.
On freedom, maybe it is the quest for it that allows us to find ourselves, allows us to taste in the end the satisfaction of our toil. The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph, they say. Maybe there could be no other way. Maybe there should have always been another way.
what it means to be free, one poet put it, what it really means to be free, is to be me.
But even freedom isn't absolute. And wars are won and lost. So if women are to triumph, pray, what would have been lost?
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