Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues Part B
So part B immediately begins with Nina who is the woman in the relationship with the man who moved to India, Dave, getting broken up with. With this woman's name being Nina it makes me think this part of the film is about the author of it, Nina Paley.
After that, we were brought back to the animations about Sita and her life. Sita is now pregnant with Rama's children but Rama is still having a heard time excepting Sita back in his life. There seems to still be some doubt that Sita did not cheat on him with Ravana and this doubt is pushed even further by those in his village. Rama treats her very poor and sends her away, this is very heartbreaking for her. Although in Sita's songs her tone does not change that much with her emotions, her lyrics do reflect what she is going through. Sita meets a gentleman by the name of Valmiki in the woods and once her twin boys are born he becomes a teacher to them teaching them songs of praise for Rama. Even being stuck in the woods, Sita stills has much love for Rama and misses him greatly. Rama hears his sons signing in the woods and goes to them to bring them back with him and rule the kingdom. Sita is obviously also there in the woods and Rama says she may also come back but must prove she is pure again. Sita does not coma back after this.
The show ends with Nina reading and learning about Rama and Sit in Ramayana. I believe Nina in a way saw herself as Sita and instead of trying to prove her love to a man she was better off on her own.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34
Madison,
ReplyDeleteI also shows the movie for my reading last week and agree that Rama treated Sita like dirt. In my stories, I write of gender swap versions of Sita and Rama where Sita is the powerful character instead of Rama. I plan on writing a lot about powerful Sita in my story book so hopefully I can develop her into a much more independent character than the Ramayana made her out to be.