Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part B

  • "Dumpsville": that is harsh, man...
  • Once again, the introduction animation sequence is pretty amazing! It is actually super trippy and cool!
  • Rama kicks her out while she is pregnant?? He is really lucky about all the unrealisticness and deus ex-machina about his story because what he puts her through would not be good for their future children
  • And if she proved her purity already, then he has no reason to suspect if she is not pregnant with his children!
  • How do his subjects not know about her trial by fire? Why does watching or hearing someone else beat his wife (no matter if she was with another man) make him feel he must banish Sita? (And why let that man keep beating his wife? I know it is a different time, but still...)
  • Even though it may have been part of the times, but Rama is a cold-hearted husband when he chooses to be
  • And oh, man, that song "praising" Rama makes him look all the more like a jerk
  • A dark, dark story of Rama being an abusive, gas-lighting husband
  • A horror story where Rama loses his mind over thinking Sita may be unpure and hunts her down, while Sita is trying to escape yet still prove her purity to him
  • Sita's position is understandable, though...
    • You love somebody while the times are good
    • Yet when that person starts to treat you terribly, you still want to look at and think of them as still having that good inside.
    • Realizing the abuse for what it is and getting away from it are hard things to do
  • Sita is too good for Rama
  • So once Sita is taken back into Mother Earth's womb, is that it? Does she never come back out again afterwards?
  • Shiva is such a sassy dancer...
Sita cries a river
Web Source: Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography. Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley, link to YouTube video.

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