On Film: Drowning in Culture
Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
catapult
Volume 6, No. 20

To a certain variety of Western Christian, Deepa Mehta’s 2005 film Water should seem familiar, a parable of his or her own experience.  The most recent in her trilogy, which also includes Earth (1996) and Fire (1998), Water explores the difficulty of discerning 2,000 years of religious history to distinguish between capital-T Truth and the cultural conveniences of the powerful that have been forcefully disguised as religious truth.

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