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David Lean's A Passage to India (1984) was based on E.M. Forsters's 1924 novel of the same name, and examines the themes of racism, sexuality and colonialism in British India of the 1920s, which is already seething with discontent and demands for independence. Its setting is the fictional province of Chandrapore, where a strange event occurs in some magical caves that leaves the perceptions and memories of all concerned highly distorted. At the start of the movie, an Anglicized and Westernized Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed, meets an elderly British lady named Mrs. Moore and her young friend Adela Quested, who is the fiance of her son, Justice Ronny Heaslop. In the course of the film, however, it becomes increasingly clear that Adela and Ronny are not really in love, and do not particularly like each other, especially because she disapproves of his attitudes toward the natives. She probably does become attracted to Aziz, although in the context of that time and place, such relationships were not permitted and their desires remained unspoken.
They agree to go sightseeing at the local Marbar Caverns, and this turns out to be an extremely expensive expedition involving guides, costly food, elephants and rented cars, and Aziz has to borrow money from his relatives to pay for it. He is also very embarrassed by his own poverty and the low quality of his residence, which he regards as too primitive for Western guests to ever see. His feelings for Adela are unclear, although he certainly wants to impress both her and Mrs. Moore as being a 'civilized' man. When Mrs. Moore goes into the first cave, the odd echoes have a peculiar effect on her psyche, leaving her feeling tired, ill and disoriented. Indeed, whatever this experience really was, it changes her life radically and finally causes her death. Adela and Aziz climb the mountain by themselves while she sits alone under an umbrella, completely confused and lost in time. Adela enters one of the caves alone and experiences something totally inexplicable and difficult to describe, but it involves feelings of desire and sexuality. She even comes to believe...
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