Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley's film, Sita Sings the Blues, is a full-length animated version of the Ramayana.
I like the way this specific film is narrated so far with the three people somewhat recalling the myths they heard from their childhood. it was very conversational and seemed like they were trying to figure out how to narrate it based on what they remembered rather than looking it up and having a script. I liked hearing this type of narration because it is very similar to what we are doing here as well. We are reading stories and then telling them without looking at the stories themselves. We have to remember the parts we find important. I think something important they noted was how Sita did not leave with Hanuman. She waited for her husband, Rama, to come to Lanka and save her. The three narrative voices argued about why that was? They all had different points of view. Whether she did not trust the monkey Hanuman, or whether she just wanted to make Rama look good. Did she want to defeat the evil first? Did she just want her husband to save her. There were layers to these questions which I think were valid for sure.
One thing is throughout this show about Sita, there are also a couple scenes about a couple in San Fransisco who throughout the film are going back and forth and there is miscommunication about things. The man decides to move to India and the woman is upset, and he asks her to move with him. She goes but they are not happy there together. It could be insinuated that the woman Nina is actually the director of the film, also Nina.
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