Aranmanai 4: If You're a Mom, it's Your Responsibility to Take Care of Your Children Even as a Ghost
Aranmanai 4 starts with a gender-equal concept - both the mother (wife) and father (husband) take care of their children. Then, the father dies, killed by a demon, and the mother is killed by the same demon, having taken the form of the father. She dies trying to protect her children. The film's plot goes downhill from there. You mother? You die? You come as ghost to take care of your children. Really? Even in death, women are the ones who should become a spirit and take care of their children? The thing is, the father dies and rests in peace but the mom has to perform caretaking duties even as a ghost? There is a cinematic concept of multiple ghosts - Casper and Kanchana. Well, that could've been applied here - continuing the father's involvement in taking care of his children together with his wife after death. Protecting is not the same as caretaking. I understand that the mother's spirit is there to safeguard her children from the demon. That is all well and ...