Pather Panchali is a great Indian Bengali-language drama film.

Although I realized there’s some cultural difference in the film such as dressing, hair style and eating habits, I found the common things between family members and human regardless of culture. I think the director did in a good way to depict each character’s personality and the struggles and sacrifices they made due to the constraint of their economics and the relationship with other people. Therefore, he communicates the emotion and  human personalities well through this film.

One of the scenery I was impressed the most is that the mother defended her daughter while she was accused of stealing the necklace form her friend. That is just what any mother will do for her children – the trust and protection. And when she was criticized by the neighbor that her daughter had the ‘experience’ of stealing things, she was mad at the shame her daughter brought and therefore beat her but she regretted doing so in the next minute and asked the son to find his sister. That’s also a normal mother’s behavior – no matter what children does, she will forgive them.  Also, it might be possible that the Indians have big beautiful eyes that they could communicate their emotions and thoughts through the eyes. I felt that when Durga starred at me, I almost cried.

I was impressed by the commonalities between human beings and in Cornell where we value the diversity a lot, it is a good start to emphasize the similarities and respect and accept the difference.