Gulmira Abdikhalyk, Guzel Mussliova, Dauren Kairzhanov, Nigel Cox, Roza Kassym. regarding our conversation on Saturday. Mila Mo, Malika Turdaliyeva, Ulan Scheff, this will interest you, too. If one wants to learn something meaningful about the West. then this is what I suggest. It is a modern, Afro-Brazilian re-telling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. I love this film because it is highly satisfying to watch, and, in it, one can see several layers of meaning. Foreign students of the West could get the following out of it: - the use of ancient myth in a modern context (I think James Joyce is given the credit for first introducing this) - a strong tradition of music - modern Western music as a blend of European and African influences - modern Western pop-culture as a blend of past and present, the old and the new - the Western juxtaposition of whites and blacks in modern times, with both peaceful coexistence as well as conquest / conflict - the ancient African (and Asian) roots of some Western traditions (the Greek philosophers, arguably, borrowed heavily from Egypt, Greek myth has correspondents with the Near East) - the stellar / astral / celestial roots of Western pagan myth and religion (even Christianity has, arguably, borrowed a lot from this) - the use of archetypes used the world over, but identified by psychologist Carl Jung; the young heros conscious quest to defeat his unconscious, shadow self and regain his female, emotional self; the wise, old man as his conscious guide, the antithesis of conscious and unconscious selves, etc., etc. - the violence which results when an individual fails to unite his various selves; Jung called this separation the ultimate root of war - a strong connection to the past which extends to the present and into the future in a cycle of life and death, something understood by ancient Western traditions but later lost - the use of celestial symbolism in connecting the cycle of the universal macrocosm to the microcosm of a single mans soul The movie is an incredible, beautiful statement of psychology presented in the celestial symbolism of a powerful Greek myth and wrapped up in modern Western music and culture. https://youtube/watch?v=uwn4vYR_3Y4
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:20:41 +0000
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