Wild Roses (2017)
7/10
Making a wrong, right.
23 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
A film about a woman whose husband works in a foreign country. He spends months or even years away from his family. Together they have a pre-teen daughter and a toddler son. The geographical distance between the husband and wife has created a rift in their relationship. In the absence of her husband she starts an affair with a teenage boy from the same village and becomes pregnant. She moves away from her children in order to give birth in a hospital but she has to give up the baby for adoption as her husband is about to return soon.

Adultery and it's ramification are vividly portrayed in this story. The stress and guilt that corrodes the wife's conscience is beautifully shown. She has been unfaithful both to her family as well as to the new born baby. She will make wrongs even when she makes one thing right. Her dilemma about what to keep and what to give up is the undercurrent of the film. She stands to lose something with what ever decision she makes, and eventually lives will be broken; her current family's or the new born illegitimate baby's.

The lead actress is brilliant in the role of the cheating wife. Kudos to the child actor playing her daughter. The film is like a dormant volcano which erupts near the end.
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