India

For example in Bandit Queen even though Phoolan Devi went though several trials and tribulations, from being raped and beaten, to sever verbal abuse from her father. Phoolan Devi was born into a low caste. When Maya a beautiful young woman refuses to marry a prince she is banished and learns the way of the Kama Sutra. She becomes a notorious gang leader that extracts revenge from every man that did her wrong. In fact the reason Pierce Bronson’s character almost kills a woman and almost loses his mind, is because of the goddess Kali. In doing so she destroys the lives of two men, the one she loves and the one that loves her by using what men want, as a tool of power.

In Kama Sutra again it seems the men control woman. She is mentioned time and time again, and is the focus of the whole movie. You can’t say after three movies that the Indian culture believes in these ideas or that these ideas are predominant in the Indian culture, since all three movies seem to deal with situations that could arise in any culture

. t further examination of the movies show that woman are the ones who actually poses the power. Wives seem to be seen as more of a nuisance, then a loving companion, cheating on your wife is not only condoned but also expected in the upper class. The Deceivers is more difficult to understand, again the western movie draws away from the other films in that a woman from a lower caste is trying to disvalue gender roles and acquire power, but in The Deceivers a man from a higher caste is trying to gain power from a woman goddess in a lower caste.

So in fact even though it seems that men were the more the powerful gender at first, further analysis of each movie shows that woman can overcome gender roles to become the more powerful gender. The bandit queen as we all know is raped by her husband at in early age, but dose find true love, but never gets to marry her true love. Each movie had pretty much the same ideas and theories, but the western movie conveyed the ideas differently.