i highly recommend this movie for anyone with an open mind and patience . my own enjoyment of it be far enhance by my love of language and zeal for seek subtext and and boredom with conventional film clichés . if youre like me in this respect and i think you will enjoy this film . if youre look for a thrill ride or expect one of the standard narrative form and you will not . the film behaves like the sea it frequently depict . lilting and undulating and splashing and and crash randomly on it poetically simple story line represent a portuguese woman and her daughter set out on a cruise to meet their husband or father in bombay . along the way and they stop in various city and have conversation about the history of the place theyre visit . at first viewing and the film seem like a mixture of luxuriously long shot of ship and wave and stilted conversation between wooden actor and random scene with strange editing and and almost no musical score . but the more i think about the film and the more the subtle meaning haunt me . the film be not an upper and but i can not help smile when i think about it . i think the point be this represent through it academic recitation of history and a mother explanation to her child and and an unsettling dose of present day reality and this movie contextualizes life in a way no other film i know of do . good and evil brought full circle . the grand flaw of humanity lay bare . an excercise in audience manipulation . whichever represent very reward .