Reading Notes: Paley Sita sings the Blues, Part A

 

 

Sita Sings the Blues

 

 

 

 Bibliography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34#action=share

Author: Nina Paley
Title: Sita Sings the Blues
Year: 2008

 

Part A: A woman with 4 arms rises from the sea on a pink flower along with a record player that is playing a tune. The woman starts dancing on the pink flower to the tune until the record gets stuck and continously repeats the same portion of the song. she touches the record player to fix it and it blows up leading to opening credits

 

the first scene opens with a couple sleeping/ snoring heavily in their bed and their cat  wakes up and walks to its bowl to find it empty then walks back to its owneres who are still sleeping in their bed and starts jumping and meowing frantically on the womans head. The woman wakes up to her cats behavior and walks up and fills the cats bowl with food. The man wakes up and welcomes the woman back in bed with open arms. They smile at eachother and the woman goes back in and they start kissing passionately.

Another scene transitions and the man, woman, and cat are all in the living room. the woman reading a news paper, the cat is lounging, and the man seems busy on the computer. The man then looks up to let the woman know about a job offer in india.

The scene transition to some wording that says " India A Long Time Ago"

two animations pop up and start arguing what year it was they decide on Ayodhya BC and they introduce the story ramayana. he itnorduces that Ramas father had 3 wives and 4 sons and introduces each wives name and the son that correspond to her. They also introduced sit, Ramas wife, and her father, Janaka. 

They discussed how rama was about to be crowned until one the wives asked for rama to be banished for 14 years and not to be crowned king because she was offered 2 boons when she saved the kings life when he was ill. 

then the scene c