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Period. End of Sentence.
Mar. 9th, 2019 12:33 pmRayna Zehtachi’s Period. End of Sentence won an Oscar this year in the Short Documentary category, so when it showed up on Netflix, I decided that I had to watch it.
It is indeed a short documentary, less than half an hour long, but it’s interesting nonetheless: it’s about a group of women in India who start a small factory (really just one room with a press) to make and sell high-quality, low-cost sanitary pads in a community in India where girls sometimes leave school through a combination of shame over menstruation and insufficient hygiene resources.
I feel like there has to be more to say about documentaries than “This will interest you if that topic is the sort of thing that interests you,” but I haven’t found it yet.
If the documentary has one flaw, it’s that it is perhaps too short: I would have been particularly interested to learn more about the young woman who was using her earnings from the pad factory to fund her training to become a police officer in Delhi. But that would have dissipated the documentary’s focus, which instead remains tightly focused on menstrual hygiene, and perhaps remaining focused is for the best.
It is indeed a short documentary, less than half an hour long, but it’s interesting nonetheless: it’s about a group of women in India who start a small factory (really just one room with a press) to make and sell high-quality, low-cost sanitary pads in a community in India where girls sometimes leave school through a combination of shame over menstruation and insufficient hygiene resources.
I feel like there has to be more to say about documentaries than “This will interest you if that topic is the sort of thing that interests you,” but I haven’t found it yet.
If the documentary has one flaw, it’s that it is perhaps too short: I would have been particularly interested to learn more about the young woman who was using her earnings from the pad factory to fund her training to become a police officer in Delhi. But that would have dissipated the documentary’s focus, which instead remains tightly focused on menstrual hygiene, and perhaps remaining focused is for the best.
