"Just singin' the blues and sighin'..."

"It must be great fun for you, can't you see what you're doin' to me,
oh can't you see what you mean to me?"

Q:"Why is Sita the hero in your story?"
A:"I came to love Sita for her courage and purity. How can I say this 'doormat' is courageous? Because, unlike me, she never fears her own heart. Sita never apologizes for loving Rama, no matter what he does. Paradoxically, by loving Rama she defies him."

How me can you get?...
not to mention that the animation is gorgeous and the music, old, scratchy, bluesy, divine.
Nina Paley is the artist and a women who was deserted by her husband via an e-mail while on a business trip in New York. She had followed him to India for his work, and while there had been introduced to the widely known story of Ramayana.
When she first heard it she thoroughly rejected the story, as all strong-minded women would be apt to do, and only after having suffered herself, the maligned heroine's fate, did she come to understand and love her...

again, I can't figure out friggin' quicktime, so you shall have to click on the picture, or HERE, to watch the short films yourself... (so far there are four, with the tantalizing promise of more to come...) may i recommend that you do so.
Thanks for the intro Lisz... so wonderful