I really enjoy watching videos, so it was a lot of fun to
get to watch a video for this weeks readings. I will admit, I just sat down and
watched the entire video yesterday. The different version of Ramayana was quite
interesting to say the least. I kept thinking of how long it had to take them
to make that video. That must have taken a lot of time and effort from quite a
bit of people. At first, I was confused on what all was going on. There were a
lot of different stories within a story, type thing. But, the further I got
into it, the easier it was to put it all together. I really liked how they
started out with kind of a modern story and really just explained Ramayana in a
way that everyday people (like me) really get and are actually interested in
the story. When I first read Ramayana, I did not really know what the main idea
or the message of the story was, and to be honest I am not entirely sure
exactly what it is still or even if it has a message. I would be very curious
to see what a Hindu believer had to say about Ramayana, for instance, if it had
one overlying theme or many small messages and also if they thought it was a
true series of events. I really liked how the narrators throughout the video were
putting it into more modern thinking and most of the time quite comical, that was a funny addition that really tied the multiple stories together in the video.
Video based off of Ramayana,
created by Nina Paley
Author: Laura Gibbs
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