On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > Vinayak Hegde wrote, [on 10/17/2009 2:01 PM]: > >>> Simonova's sand story portrays the human loss after the German invasion in >>> 1941. The opening scene shows a couple sitting on a bench under a starry >>> sky. Warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated to be replaced by >>> crying faces. Then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again, but war and >>> chaos return and a young woman becomes an old widow, before the image turns >>> into an obelisk – the Ukrainian monument to its Unknown Soldier. >> >> On a similar note, I highly recommend watching Persepolis[1] - A >> animated fillm (I am not sure that 'Animated film' is the right word >> since much of the film mirrors the comic feel). The story follows a >> young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian >> Revolution. > > > Similarly, I highly recommend the album _Dead Winter Dead_ [1] by > Savatage, which I've mentioned here before [2]. > > A love story set against the backdrop of the war in Bosnia, it fuses > great storytelling (both musical and lyrical) with amazing musicianship > and the fusion on Mozart and metal. Highly recommended.
I of my friends whom I am trying to get on silk recommended the Grave of the Fireflies [1] (Anime Film - consider one of the best anti-war movies). Another great movie on the Kurdish extermination by Saddam is Turtles can Fly [2]. All the protagonists in this movie are children just like Grave of the Fireflies and Persepolis. -- Vinayak References - 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_Can_Fly
