Burning Birds

 Disturbing, depressing, enraging

How can a patriarchal society be cruel to a marginalized mother who took on the difficult responsibility of raising her family?

Burning Birds movie shown on Cinema World at Cignal TV set in Sri Langka makes you question why families have to face such tragic fate.

It is about the plight of Kusum, wife of a murdered fish vendor who took on the role of a breadwinner to feed her family doing odd and compromising jobs.

A responsible mother will do whatever it takes for the sake of the children even at the expense of her pride and dignity. Man as humans has limits and tipping points.

Watching Burning Birds, I recalled Pope Francis' message to the youth at UST in January 2015 when he saw the children assigned to present cry.

Pope Francis in his message paid tribute to women and posed a question on suffering children.

Women see differently from men. She poses questions which have no answers and could not put them in words but in tears.

"Why do we allow children to suffer?," he asked. There are no answers but reaction can  either be in silence or in tears.

Only when we weep are we cleansed to see the reality of life. Only when we weep are we capable of fully understanding life.

I weep for what all that mother Kusum did to raise her family when the breadwinner of the house was deliberately killed. I weep for the tragedy that she faced doing what she did for the love of her family.

The movie Burning Fires powerfully elicited that response.

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