Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues B

Coming back after the intermission we pick back up in New York City while Nina is there and Dave is still in India. Nina gets an email from Dave about him not wanting her to comeback, he just broke up with her and it is easy to see that she is heartbroken. The visuals make sure of that. It is found out that Sita is pregnant. A laundry man finds out his wife is pregnant and compares her to Sita which leads Rama to banish Sita so that his subjects will respect him instead of questioning his rule. So he sends Lackshama to take Sita into the forest and leave her out into the wilderness alone. I can start to see some of the subtle similarieties that are occurring between Dave and Nina and Rama and Sita, with Dave and Ninas story being shown instead of narrated both Nina and Sita are heartbroken about no longer being with their loved ones. Sita ponders that she must have done something in a past life because she is carrying Rama’s sons while Rama does not believe that and instead thinks of Sita as impure. Sita gives birth to twins and were taught to sing many songs that praised Rama, their father. Cutting back to Nina in Brooklyn she is calling Dave, begging him to take her back saying that she will do anything for him and it is also shown that Sita is still praising Rama. This shows that they both still love Dave and Rama even though they were wronged by them. Now it shows Rama in the forest and he hears his two sons singing and comes to take them back with him to Iodia to rule with him and then he sees Sita. For Sita to come back with him she must prove her purity to him. She is then taken back into the earth to disappear showing she is pure.
Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues Link

                                                             Sita Sings, Source

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