Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues Part 1

The animation at the beginning with the couple and the cat was kind of distracting because of the constant movement. Use of humour is really good when they are trying to decide what year the story is from. I wonder who the three people are that seem to be narrators. Their commentary with each other is fun as they mess stuff up. Why is Rama the only blue person?

Interesting that they skipped straight to Kaikeyi and Rama becoming king. This animation continues to be funny, I'm actually lol. Maybe I could incorporate some humour by using modern dialogue and being blunt.

Not exactly sure what the record player's role is. Maybe it displays Sita's point of view and feelings through songs.

Ravana's only bad deed was stealing away Sita. It seems like they think he also followed the right gods. Cool that Rama's bridge still exists. It's also interesting to see how far Ayodhya is from Lanka.

Shurpanakha doesn't seem to have her nose cut off. Oh singing Sita I'm so sorry but you're gonna be taken away from Rama. Ravana just picked her up and didn't use earth. There also wasn't an appearance by Jatayu. That's a lot of jewelry. I also didn't know that Hanuman was the incarnation of Shiva.

Ravana is just like the shocked Pikachu meme. Well Hanuman just lit the whole place on fire. That is an interesting idea, why didn't Sita just get on Hanuman's back. All three narrators made good points.

Dave's reaction to Nina is similar to Rama's to Sita when he rescued her. But why is Dave so cold? Rama had his reason.

Shocked Pikachu meme representing Ravana

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Bibliography:

Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley