Yaaaay! I love love love LOVE this movie. And feel a little possessive about it, the filmmaker started putting up her little music videos on youtube while she was still finishing the film, and I watched them back then while she was slowly spinning them out. I was so excited when it turned into a film festival darling and everyone was talking about it!
I work in the morning, I do the Grandpa birthday car ride and presents, I come and watch this, and then I go off and meet a friend to go for a walk in the park. Phew! Such a busy Friday! Anyway, link below, hit “Play” at 5pm and watch along with me!
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Grandpa’s birthday running a few minutes late! Ill put up a message when i am ready to hit play.
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Here!
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I’m here, too! Just rolled out of bed.
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Here!
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And PLAY! FINALLY!
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Funded by You – I guess that’s why it is free.
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I wish a knew the symbolism of all the things she is holding, but I don’t.
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My goodness, the animation is beautiful!!
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I love this opening, the fun simple kind of Betty Boop look, and then this Cosmic Power effect
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I love the sexy god in the sun.
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I love how she simplifies and sexualizes bodies, male and female equally
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Anyone know who rotating head god is?
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No, and I really want to! He seems cool
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I like how the “real story” animation is equally simple and fake, but somehow feels more “real”?
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I’m quite fond of cats.
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Shaddow puppets!
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Oh, ugh, I’ve been refreshing and refreshing and all of a sudden it gave me about 5 minutes of comments at one time. I’m behind. Where are you guys?
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8 and a half minutes
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I’m almost 9 minutes in.
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One of these puppets is the director/star of Loins of Punjab. Also, if I am remembering correctly, none of the puppets knew each other before, she just asked all of them to get together and talk about the Ramayana and recorded it.
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I’m having trouble refreshing and seeing comments. Where are you guys?
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Bottom boobies showing. Is this a thing?
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I think it is!
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And now a whole new style of animation, and dialogue!
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I love this conversation!!! The puppets are my everything! And the names forming and bending! I LOVE THIS!!!!
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The king dying and living and dying and living as they can’t remember! That’s the best
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So do wise men inevitably hang out in forests?
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Yep! It’s a whole thing, a particular kind of wise/religious man who gains “virtue” by giving up comforts and civilization. They go into the forest, live on berries, blah blah.
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I am a bit behind you guys, but not much, at most a minute
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Who needs legs when you can have circle hips?
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And a naval!
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The 5 year old is not impressed with the blues singing.
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Oooo! It’s the evil Rakshas who bother the good Rishis at their prayers!
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A single arrow kills a lot of monsters… Magic arrows.
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Ram’s biggest skill was as an archer, if I am remembering correctly he won the contest for Sita’s hand by shooting the eye of a fish using a reflection in a mirror, something impossible like that.
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I think that was the Mahabharata with Draupadi and her many, many suitors. Sita’s challenge was to string Shiva’s bow (and in some versions, shoot an arrow from it), a notoriously heavy piece. Ram broke it as he was trying to string it and perhaps, JUST as he strung it, since he did win her hand in marriage.
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AN archway of monster blood, so beautiful and sweet… Fantastic.
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The blood arch! So dark! So funny! I love it
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Puppets are back! Yaaaaaaaay!!!!
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They are the best!
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I can’t remember if this is going to be covered, but there is an interpretation that Raavan was TOO good, the Gods were worried about the power he was gaining, so they put this whooooooooooooole thing in play in order for him to be tempted by Sita, and therefore turn Bad and be punished by Ram and no longer be a threat to the Gods.
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Also, geographic info, Sri Lanka is off the southern coast, so a pretty common interpretation is that Raavan and the “demons” were the southern ethnic group as scene by the northern ethnic group who are telling this story. Also, as you go farther south, the folk versions get increasingly friendly towards Raavan and co.
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The gold deer is SO CLEARLY A TRAP!!!!! This guy is too dumb.
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Ok, I’m up to Ravana playing his intestines.
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You are still a little behind us, we are up to the butterflies dancing a chorus to “what wouldn’t I do for that man”
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Am I the only one thinking a little bit of Snow White?
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Nope. That hairstyle certainly isn’t helping matters
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they skipped a little thing here, Lakshman (Ram’s younger brother) was living with them in exile too. After Ram went off after the deer, LAkshman was left behind to watch Sita. But then Sita heard “Ram” crying out in pain and insisted on Lakshman going after him. So she was twice wrong, sending Ram off, and then sending Lakshman off too.
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I was wondering where Laxman was…
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Also skipped a thing here, Hanuman was caught up in a dispute over rulership of the Monkey kingdom. Ram allied with one side of the monkey civil war and helped them win, therefore they swore to help him find Sita. Again, not that important, just adding it in.
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for the first time, I am beginning to wonder if Dave is having a hard time with his jerkiness being made part of an international film festival hit. eh, he seems like the kind of guy who would manage to blame other people for it and move on.
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Oh oh! And this is when Sita invented Parcheesi! No, really. All the demons like having sex all the time, but then she invents Parcheesi to entertain herself while sitting under the tree, and slowly the demon ladies decide playing Parcheesi is more fun than sex and start hanging with her, as she slowly turns the whole city more virtious.
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There is a Japanese animated 3-hour movie of the Ramayana that’s also on YouTube for free in English. Worth a watch for the things they skipped over in the story since it covers almost all of the story. Very well done movie too! It was my first intro to Ramayana.
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Man, she really got a jerky guy to play her ex.
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She really did! Even his voice is gratting. Poor ex. Who has probably moved on to like three other women, weirdly ghosting on all of them.
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I mean, the actor probably isn’t jerky himself.
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We don’t know that necessarily, maybe she went all method and found the jerkiest guy she knew to do the voice over?
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OMG, the moon!!!!! Question: song videos or puppets, which are better?
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Puppets are the best part for me, no question.
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Just as Sita would not use her powers to defeat Raavan because it was Ram’s place to do it, so would Hanuman not rescue her (even though he could have) because it was proper to wait for Ram.
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I love how Hanuman dances.
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Ram=Dudley Do Right. Right?
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The animation is so rich, so many little things, every bit of the frame filled
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Flood of blood!
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I’ve lost count of the Raavan heads, but there should be 10 of them that fly past
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