Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley
Part 2: This part was an extra addition to the Ramayana?
- Nina's grief-stricken response to the breakup (burning in the fire) doesn't elicit feelings of grief or anguish or deep sadness to me, rather, it feels almost liberating. Maybe a show of how the relationship was?
- Okay what happened to Rama being the perfect man? Even after Sita proved herself in the trial he threw her out for his reputation's sake even though he hasn't cared about his reputation before
- The song the twins sing to praise Rama- is that how the people really feel? So blinded by their love of Rama that they'd even twist the narrative of Sita to favor him?
- The narrator's debate about whether Sita was valid in still loving Rama is really interesting- unconditional love vs "no, she should've left him a long time ago", and they also made it a gender split as to the differing opinions
- Good for her for finally leaving him
- Overall, this shifts my opinion of Rama from how I originally read him in the Ramayana. At first, I viewed him like everybody else, as essentially perfect, and his behavior towards Sita was the most human (and therefore most flawed) part about him. Now, however, I feel like his perfection was way oversold and it is inexcusable how he treated Sita; honestly, he treated her worse than Ravana did
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| Sita and her twin sons (Source) |
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