Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part A
I chose to watch Sita Sings the Blues because I watched Nina Paley's TED Talk for an assignment is this class last week.
This film has stuck to the main idea of Ramayana, however, the main focus of part A was the kidnapping of Sita. Many of the main characters of Ramayana were mentioned, but for very brief moments. The focus was really on Sita and Rama. It started out with the back story of Rama and Sita meeting, getting married, and then getting exiled, all of this was a rather quick overview. Then it depicts Rama and Sita in the forest being head over heels for each other. After that, the video goes through the battle scene and the golden deer scene, when Sita is taken from Rama. From there, it was all about the journey of returning Sita to Rama. Once Sita is back, she goes through the trial of innocence, if you would call it that. The film ends off with a nice musical touch of Sita singing her feelings.
There is also a side story going on in the film too, but in my opinion it is very out there and random. What do I know, it will probably all come around in the second part. It is between a woman and a man, with no definite label on their relationship. They live in San Francisco, but the man moved to India for work and his contract got extended past the original six months that he was intended to be gone. He finally called the women, and she went to visit him in India. Obviously, the man was not into the woman anymore. That is how that storyline ended at the end of part A.
Bibliography:
Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley. Web Source
(A visual of Sita being kidnapped by Ravana from the film.
This film has stuck to the main idea of Ramayana, however, the main focus of part A was the kidnapping of Sita. Many of the main characters of Ramayana were mentioned, but for very brief moments. The focus was really on Sita and Rama. It started out with the back story of Rama and Sita meeting, getting married, and then getting exiled, all of this was a rather quick overview. Then it depicts Rama and Sita in the forest being head over heels for each other. After that, the video goes through the battle scene and the golden deer scene, when Sita is taken from Rama. From there, it was all about the journey of returning Sita to Rama. Once Sita is back, she goes through the trial of innocence, if you would call it that. The film ends off with a nice musical touch of Sita singing her feelings.
There is also a side story going on in the film too, but in my opinion it is very out there and random. What do I know, it will probably all come around in the second part. It is between a woman and a man, with no definite label on their relationship. They live in San Francisco, but the man moved to India for work and his contract got extended past the original six months that he was intended to be gone. He finally called the women, and she went to visit him in India. Obviously, the man was not into the woman anymore. That is how that storyline ended at the end of part A.
Bibliography:
Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley. Web Source
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