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Rubye 2022-03-23 09:02:48
a hymn of life
How many times to cry, how many times to laugh, how many times to cry, although life may be ordinary, boring, like a plate of salt and pepper chicken without salt, this word sounds funny, but it is a portrayal of life and ideals. The film uses this realist stream of consciousness form to compose...
Chunibala Devi
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Rupert 2022-03-20 09:02:23
The first part of Satyajit Rey's "Arp Trilogy" is also his debut. Rey is determined to devote himself to the film industry because Jean Renoir came to India to shoot "The River". This "Song of the Road" took a total of nearly 3 years from the beginning of the shooting to the completion of post-production. Due to funding problems, the shooting was intermittent. It was not until the New York Museum of Modern Art became interested in the film and injected funds that it was completed.
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Marcus 2022-03-14 14:12:26
Based on the novel of the same name by the Bangladeshi writer Banerjee, this film describes the childhood story of the protagonist Apu in the countryside of Bangladesh in the 1920s. The film only has a small investment of about US$3,000, and most of the roles are played by amateur actors. However, the director Rey was influenced by the famous French director Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealism film, and created lyrical realism in this film. style of. At that time, India’s most popular commercial film was Hindi song and dance, which used magnificent studio settings and cookie-cutter melodramas to complete screen dreams. But the film is on the contrary, there is no singing and dancing, and there is no legendary plot. The characters of the film are placed in a primitive environment by the director. The Indian countryside under the lens is only the ordinary life of ordinary people's suffering. This film and the later "Song of the River" and "Song of the Big Tree" constitute the "Apu Trilogy". On the screen, Apu has gone through the life process that the audience has deja vu from baby to teenager and middle-aged. Kind of pure sadness. Apu’s life has become the epitome of countless civilian lives in India.
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Sarbojaya Ray: Listen - you lived in Benares a long time. Do people know you there?
Harihar Ray: Some certainly do.
Sarbojaya Ray: Isn't there a ghat by the river where priests sing and recite from the scriptures?
Harihar Ray: It's called Dashashamedh Ghat.
Sarbojaya Ray: They earn a lot there, right?
Harihar Ray: I suppose.
Sarbojaya Ray: Then let's go.
Harihar Ray: We can't do that.
Sarbojaya Ray: Why not?
Harihar Ray: How can we? I left there to return here to my ancestral home. I can't go the other direction now.
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Sarbojaya Ray: This is my home now too. But just look at it. It's like living in the jungle. Jackals prowling around as soon as night falls. No neighbors to sit and talk to. When you're not here, I'm terribly uneasy. But you wouldn't understand. You eat and sleep and go about your work, unconcerned whether you're paid or not. I had lots of dreams too. All the things I wanted to do...
