Monday, February 12, 2018

Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part B

Sita Sings the Blues

Kind of like the last blog post about how I'm unsure to take notes over a video, I will be doing the same for part B of this video. I will say that the start of the video is extremely strange with the burning of Sita (to represent the break up).However, one thing I could see myself trying to represent is Dobi beating his wife through a master beating his dog. Unfortunately I wouldn't enjoy writing this story unless I was able to make it have a happy ending, but as I was watching this, the idea did pop into my head with trying to cover this in some manner. I could also do the blaming it on one's own-self for this too, kind of like how Sita says it must have been in a past life where she messed up to deserve this treatment.

This is an image of a dog looking sad that I found on Pixabay.


I'll be honest I lost a lot of interest in the video for the second part because it is mainly depressing and Sita singing the blues. However, as I'm watching and writing these notes they do keep me slightly on my toes with the randomness. I think maybe this is the point of the random blurbs from these narrators and for instance the kids singing songs of praise about Rama. I think it is in order to keep the audience still concerned, which is something I need to take away. I'm going to call it the art of distraction. While all of it does pertain to the story, it is in order to move along in events yet doesn't necessarily have to build on the grand idea of the story. I think that I could do some of this action with my dialogue in stories. As dialogue can be crucial for stories, it can also be a good way to have a filler in your writing as well.

I think the first half of this video did a better job for me about giving me ideas about my writing to be honest.

Bibliography:
Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley

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