Notes
I liked the idea of animating the Ramayana. I liked the combination of drawings and pictures in the animation. It's like a crash course video with the modifications. I also like how there are multiple narrators who don't know the story perfectly and are arguing frequently in the start. That's an interesting way of telling the story. I also thought it was a good choice to make Rama and Sita to look like their godly counterparts - they are avatars after all.
Sita asking Rama to chase the golden deer is like the crocodile and the monkey's heart jataka tale. It's funny how Sita has a shrine to Rama, and really accurately portrays how much they love each other. The movie stays very true to the Ramayana, and I think it's interesting that the author includes herself in the story similar to how we include ourselves in the stories in this class. Nina's boyfriend is a jerk in this story, but I guess this matches the Ramayana and is part of what makes this story personal to her.
The narrators in this movie actually really like Ravana. I never saw it this way when reading the Ramayana, but the narrators believe Ravana was a villain mainly for stealing Sita. To be fair, he did command an army of demons, but if he had not taken Sita from Rama it is likely that he would be regarded with some respect because he himself doesn't do anything wrong. In this movie I like the open admiration of Ravana because it's a nice change of pace from the original text and makes you think about a different perspective.
Source: Sita Sings The Blues by Nina Paley
I liked the idea of animating the Ramayana. I liked the combination of drawings and pictures in the animation. It's like a crash course video with the modifications. I also like how there are multiple narrators who don't know the story perfectly and are arguing frequently in the start. That's an interesting way of telling the story. I also thought it was a good choice to make Rama and Sita to look like their godly counterparts - they are avatars after all.
Sita asking Rama to chase the golden deer is like the crocodile and the monkey's heart jataka tale. It's funny how Sita has a shrine to Rama, and really accurately portrays how much they love each other. The movie stays very true to the Ramayana, and I think it's interesting that the author includes herself in the story similar to how we include ourselves in the stories in this class. Nina's boyfriend is a jerk in this story, but I guess this matches the Ramayana and is part of what makes this story personal to her.
The narrators in this movie actually really like Ravana. I never saw it this way when reading the Ramayana, but the narrators believe Ravana was a villain mainly for stealing Sita. To be fair, he did command an army of demons, but if he had not taken Sita from Rama it is likely that he would be regarded with some respect because he himself doesn't do anything wrong. In this movie I like the open admiration of Ravana because it's a nice change of pace from the original text and makes you think about a different perspective.
Purity is a big theme in the Ramayana, and this movie does a good job of portraying that fact (Source: Wikimedia)
Source: Sita Sings The Blues by Nina Paley
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