LOVE FOR SHARE

Can one actually share love? In Nia diNata's latest film, we find out through three linked stories where men take more than one wife and what happens in those relationships and situations. In almost a testimony of how women have been involving in society, the first story shows how the women just accept the situation. The second, where two of the wives fall in love with each other and plot and escape. The third still, where the second wife realizes that she doesn't really need a marriage to be happy, that so long as she is happy with herself and self dependent.

The 120 minutes of the film are definitely felt, however, the strength of the growing characters in their liberation holds the audience in as we come to feel for the characters, why they live as they live and cheer them on when they make the first step to leaving a relationship that is less than fair to everyone involved. Good acting and the little coincidences when you realize how their paths cross enables this to be an informative about polygamy in Indonesia as well as a strong film about women, their fates, and their choices.