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This week, instead of reading, I watched the movie Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley: here is a link to the reading guide and YouTube Video.
This story follows really closely with Nayaran's Ramayana, but it is a lot more artistic. The music that Sita sings reminds me a lot of the 1920's and I think I may want to use that as a theme for my writing. I also like that the story focuses more on the love between Rama and Sita rather than the fighting and battle like in the other Ramayana I read. It is also interesting how Nina intertwined the story of her personal relationship with the story of Rama and Sita and with India. I am curious about how that part of this movie will end and I am looking forward to watching part two.
My story this week will most likely focus on the relationship between Rama and Sita, but I will move the time to the 1920s and maybe Sita can be a flapper girl or some kind of show girl. I am not yet sure of the setting for my story, but I am pretty sure I want to write about Rama and Sita's relationship this time and cut out the battle parts. Hopefully I will inspired with a good setting and more parts to the story in the second half of the movie!
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