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Very helpful analysis. I know someone who worked on the set with David Lean and have heard some anecdotes. I watched this again this year after seeing it back in 1984. I'm an American deeply familiar with India. I know the area where the caves were filmed is visible on the train between Mysore and Bangalore. You have revealed layers I hadn't appreciated before. It's difficult to condense a book into a movie. Now I need to read the novel. When I first saw the movie, One thing that utterly confused me was the reveal of Stella's marriage. Her existence was barely mentioned in the movie. I have a feeling that narrative time constraints left out any kind of reference to a nascent relationship between Fielding and Stella.

Fascinating analysis of an extraordinary film.

I think this analysis is reaching. But I do sort of agree with one thing, its all a muddle, alot of incoherent ideas and experiences.

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Love this analysis! I wish the film had included that Adela was drugged out of her mind by doctors after she was "rescued" from the caves. That as I recall, she never accuses Dr. Aziz herself in the book, but the racist people around her assume that and she goes along with it. The trial is the first time SHE actually thinks on her own about what happened, which means she never changed her mind, but it was her first time (without influence from others) facing the truth.

Tbh the film just felt senseless and confusing to me, although the portrayal of British India was commendable and quite accurate, if you see videos of the 1920s. What is the 'mystery of India'? What happened in the caves that made Adela so disturbed that she falsely accused Aziz? And how did the bruises came on her? It's technically a wonderful film, but the plot could've been explained better.

I saw this movie when it first came out. I was taken back with the beauty of the film. Here was a 3 hour that I found riveting, not by the plot, but by the visuals. I knew then that the film was a meditation of death, The death of the British Empire the death of traditional India, the death of innocence, the death of antiquated ways of live (DR. Aziz is very progressive encouraging Indians to use modern healthcare measures). And in the film everyone is reborn. The film is full of visual metaphors. While I know there was controversy of Alec Guiness being cast as Hindi; but because he's in essence the force of reincarnation, it seemed to me that he probably was an English philosopher/professor in his past life, in other words also a metaphor.

Serisously appreciate ur analysis of the movie was remarkable... but as a movie i am still dissappointed with it. a viewer should not have to listen to somebody's analysis to understand the movie, it should do it on its own. I enjoyed ur analysis more than the movie itself.

I took an English novel course at Seoul National University graduate school in 1973. I read this great novel, "A Passage to India," and got an A grade point. ㅎㅎ My professor was Dear Baengnakchung.

Beautiful Analysis, you have cracked the story.

Great video

thank you so much xx

It's perfectly all right to find the ending unsatisfactory. Seems totally phony to be honest -- we thought the English finally got their comeuppance but then it goes all nicey-nicey! Thank you for taking up this fantastic film and sharing your many insights into it.

Good job!! Please continue making such video essays

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Read about the author's childhood & read the book.

A plus. Good analysis.

Thank you so much. Really interesting. I just finished reading Forster’s novel - great &deep philosophy on every page, so much love for India and its indigenous population. It inspired me to re-watch Lean’s film and also a b/w tv version ( available on you tube) with dame sybil thorndike as a v spiritual, wonderful mrs moore. Its certainly worth watching ( though clearly the bbc couldnt afford the elephant). A Passage to India is the novel that goes on giving.

I like this reincarnation analysis, especially since it jibes with the "return" of Mrs. Moore at the end when Fielding reveals he's married her daughter.

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What did she see inside that cave that make her cried?

The author cautioned about it to not to reproduce it as it might misrepresent the actual sense for both Indian and English audiences. But David Lean did it.

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Great analysis

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Amazing 👏

I too was intrigued by the explanation of the birth-death-rebirth cycle. The timeline is really useful for this.

Thank you, very informative

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When I first watched this film, I had an impression that Mrs. Moore was returning to India. Also, that Adela was like a younger version of Mrs. Moore, and Aziz a younger version of Professor Godbole. I can see Ms. Quested returning to India at an old age to see Dr Aziz.

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Well done!

All very fascinating -- thank you so much! Do you think Lean really thought and planned all that? Did Forster? I haven't read the book but love the movie. And please tell us what you think of the film's ending. I just hate it. Isn't it ironic that Turton proposes a 'bridge party' right in the middle of a failed one ("The hate it as much as we do"). I'm especially intrigued that your listenable Indian-sounding voices assess the film so impartially. Do you feel the raj had an overall positive or negative impact on India? I, though a conservative white American, have come to hate the British for their historical record and present state of extreme tyrannical Covidiocy -- ad inf. Love the great culture they've given the world, their common law and the IDEA of the royal family etc, but they've got half a millennium of serious blood on their hands.

Thanks for explaining the movie … just I saw it on tv n not able to understand the story … now it’s clear n feeling happy to know it’s full meaning ♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻

What did make Adela flip and suddenly accuse Dr. Aziz of rape. What did she see in those caves? In my very simplistic opinion she was confronted by explicit sexual imagery as one finds in ancient Indian and Greek art, I mean what else could it have been?? This had an affect on her repressed victorian sexuality. We are well-accustomed to the ideas of the prudish, sexually-repressed Victorians, who cautiously guarded themselves against any temptation, no matter how slight. There was something in Adela's psyche that made her freak out, sexual repression or was she abused as a child? We will never know.

Excellent!

Good analysis. But I don't think there's anything special about Lean's use of circular narrative from end to beginning. Lean used it on "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" too. In LOA, Lawrence's death by motorcycle in England is premonition-ed at the end of the film. There Lawrence hints at an interest in motorbikes when a passing motorcyclist passes him, just as he's making his exit out of Arabia. Then too in "Zhivago" we see the good doctor as a young boy at the burial of his mother. It foreshadows Zhivago's own death at the end of the film. Lean employed philosophical messaging in his other films too. Certainly in LOA. But also in "The Bridge on the River Kwai". In fact Kwai has similar philosophical themes as in "A Passage to India". Themes like one's purpose in the life, and the realization of one's smallness in a grand, seemingly purposeless universe.

So if we are part of a pattern we cannot perceive, does it matter what we do? Is the pattern random? Is our fate already determined? Are these questions claimed to be answered in this particular belief system?

Just finished watching it for a second time after a separation of 36 years. This helped with the muddle/mystery problems that I had with it both times. I enjoyed it more the second time.

Well it was a year of waiting but still worth it

good one.

Where’s the other part :(

I think Sir Alec Guinness playing the part of Professor Godbole is a blunder... His accent is in no way Indian... Its absolutely British

This intriguing analysis, and the cyclical theme of birth, life, death and rebirth introduced by the film, has encouraged me to give A Passage to India another watch with this observation in mind. Excellent video!

Brilliant!!!

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Great analysis! I thought about the birth in the caves in the book, but the movie's direction really pulls all the corners straight to make it clearer. :)

Could it be possible that her(Mrs moore) husband died on 1892?

An interesting analysis, especially the cyclical nature of events. I hadn’t noticed the significance of the date 1892 - l wonder what that was about.

Good