Monday, February 16, 2009

"Journeys"

three motifs in "Journeys":

1. hardships
2. immensity of people  
3. poverty

(Overall theme/motif: being trapped, no space)
secondary motif:
1. closeness

i thought "Joureys" was a very different film. it showed the hardships of the sheer poverty prevalent in Mumbai. It is quite amazing the lack of space each person has to him/herself. whether on the train, walking, sleeping, driving...there are hundreds of people surrounding you, enclosing you in a small box of little space. The poverty sucks the life out of people, it sucks the space out of where they can travel, what they can achieve, where they can go and things they can do. Hardships overlie these themes. The immensity of people and lack of space makes living hard, dreary, poor. Trying to get by trapped in a little space is a hardship in its very own. 

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