"We often talk about cycle-breakers in generational trauma. Here, women, oppressed by gender and tradition, pass the burden on to their daughters, imagining it to be love. In another scene, Mythili demands to know why her mother has become so hateful towards her, working her to death every day. 'Why don’t you just kill me off in one go, instead?' she cries. Her mother, broken by these words, explains that this is the only protection she has to offer: teaching her daughter to be a ‘good enough wife’, so that Mythili will not be tormented after marriage like she was."
~ Bharathy Singaravel
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