In modern society, machines play an important role in our day to day existence. Prior to technology and machinery that were created to carry out the household chores, women alone manually did all the work related to keeping the household presentable to men. With the advances in technology and the arrival of machines, the role of a woman is relatively unchanged where women are still responsible over daily household chores but now with the mock power to master over the machinery.
In this film, the protagonist, the woman from the washing machine is liberated from her machine but is then trapped still in the grips of men young and old, loving and cruel. We see the family unit disintegrating and the machine unable to wash the debris of the broken heart. Thus, using the washing machine as a metaphor for gender prison, this film attempts to show how the protagonist is liberated from this domestic convention and chaos, and ultimately from the shackles of modern love and the patriarchy of the middle class.
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