Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, WATER begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
There are some images that become indelible in our minds. One such image that has stayed with me for 10 years is that of a Hindu widow in the Holy Indian city of Varanasi. Bent like a shrimp, her body wizened with age, white hair shaved close to her scalp, she scampered on all fours, furiously looking for something she had lost on the steps of the Ganges. Her distress was visible as she searched amidst the early morning throng of pilgrims. She was paid scant attention to, not even when she sat down to cry, unsuccessful in her attempt to find whatever she had lost.
---Deepa Mehta
三部曲:
Fire
Earth
Water
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作舟是"中國製造"...作舟的詩歌是"作舟製造"....那不也等於"中國製造"麽??
never doubt!!!
未夕 發表評論於
有氣節!
"詩歌-中國製造" - Made in China (note: Outsource to America) :)
what is lost/destroyed in current movie industry is humanity! result from Modernization and Materialism . . .
All art works have the presence of Humanity . . .
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what they are doing is "following the money"----or, "survival of the fittest" like what has been going on in the west....the best results of that have been wars, or at least, the out sourcing of jobs, etc....
for example, China has not produced any good documentary films for a loooong time.....!!!!!
人們不願麵對現實，更何況藝術家常得不到支持，另外，中國人都太“聰明”，認“真”的人很少，我感覺在中國“good documentary films”或許像廖同誌那種鬥士有膽子去拍？？。。。但是我感覺中國現在有產生 good documentary films 的“肥沃土壤”，非常多的素材，非常多的資料，非常多的角度。。。隻是生活在那裏藝術家們大都“短路”或者在掙紮，但我感覺還是會有一些可以 stands beyond 的有識之士有可能會去 produce some good documentary films ...期待中。。。
many of the Chinese films on the market for the last two decades are very retarded, both artistically and spiritually.....
完全同意，越來越弱智，both artistically and spiritually..... 我甚至懷疑有多少人還在真的思考“藝術”與“精神”這樣的字眼，當人們的腦子被“錢”，“利”，“權”，“名”，“地位”等等這樣的字眼所占據。。。總之，在我眼裏，這些都很不詩意。。。
what they are doing is "following the money"----or, "survival of the fittest" like what has been going on in the west....the best results of that have been wars, or at least, the out sourcing of jobs, etc....
for example, China has not produced any good documentary films for a loooong time.....!!!!!
many of the Chinese films on the market for the last two decades are very retarded, both artistically and spiritually.....
z.f. 發表評論於
yeah, she is the kind of filmmaker we need from China!!!!
Nowadays, too many Chinese filmmakers are wasting their lives and money making "eye candies" instead of real films with depth and meaning.....
同意！！！很失望他們不再珍惜自己“藝術家”的天分和所長，失去了藝術家精神，被商業“短路”走欺騙麻木大眾的“黃金道”，我已經不想去看張藝謀的“滿地都是黃金甲”。。。張藝謀陳凱歌都讓人多少有些失望。。。準備注視“出生牛犢不怕虎”的新新導演:)
看real films with depth and meaning.....
或者看真的好玩的幽默的生活的電影with depth and meaning.....:)
我的閱讀其實很“小資”:))，隻是看到忽然想起來。。。
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yeah, she is the kind of filmmaker we need from China!!!!
Nowadays, too many Chinese filmmakers are wasting their lives and money making "eye candies" instead of real films with depth and meaning.....
like your quotes.....seems like you are reading a great deal....
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -- M.L.KING
Much Madness is divinest Sense –
To a discerning Eye –
Much sense – the starkest Madness –
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail –
Assent – and you are sane –
Demur – you’re straightway dangerous –
And handled with a Chain –
-- Emily Dickinson
真的對Deepa Mehta充滿了敬意！！！
“Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents。。。
There are some images that become indelible in our minds...
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, WATER begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
There are some images that become indelible in our minds. One such image that has stayed with me for 10 years is that of a Hindu widow in the Holy Indian city of Varanasi. Bent like a shrimp, her body wizened with age, white hair shaved close to her scalp, she scampered on all fours, furiously looking for something she had lost on the steps of the Ganges. Her distress was visible as she searched amidst the early morning throng of pilgrims. She was paid scant attention to, not even when she sat down to cry, unsuccessful in her attempt to find whatever she had lost.
