Re: Just uploaded - Khamterm & Daraphet..

Since I mentioned the rigid system of beliefs of the typical Asians
--- which forces individuals to conform to the elders and
"authorities" even if he or she feels they are just barely above
retards --- let me include an ARTISTIC lampooning of what I meant:

This, of course, is only a movie; but a movie that was very well made
(it's actually incredibly moving and romantic, too, in its tragedy and
contemplation).

Watch the scenes between the uncle and the main character (the latter
played by the extremely well acted H. Sanada), in the movie THE
TWILIGHT SAMURAI.

This YouTube clip here centered around the two men talking about the
nephew marrying a woman the old uncle wanted his nephew to marry,
because he had two young daughters without mother. The nephew said,
he'd love his two little daughters and take care of them all by
himself; that he would be very uncomfortable marrying someone he
didn't know, whether that women is above his station or not.

Notice how the old uncle brushed him off, when the nephew said he's
very happen to just live a simple life, raising his two little
motherless daughters and watch the rice grow and the wind wrestle with
the leaves, observation nature, do his little accounting job as a
junior, insignificant samurai at the local office...

Notice how the uncle treated him like a little child, not a grown man
who has to live his own life. Also, notice the old man's sister (the
young man's mother, who was having some dementia problems, making her
unable to recall faces she sees sometimes), notice her peeking from
the back, asking whom the old man was... and he went off the handled,
yelling angrily at both her (who's his sister for christ sakes!) and
the young man... as if they're bothering him and his thoughts...
although he's sitting in the young man's house, which he thought he
ought to still be the "master of.."

This was actually, again, an incredibly tragic and yet uplifting,
romantic movie.

This particularly clip included a hauntingly beautiful melody, playing
a children's tune (of a Japanese nursery rhyme or children's tales),
played under a beautiful moonlight, with cheery blossom petals falling
like tears, as the two formerly star-crossed childhood sweethearts
were invoking in each other their teenage years, growing up and
playing with one another, only to be re-united after some years, with
both marrying someone else but both having gone through tragedies
(different tragedies: for the woman, it's marrying into a very abusive
household; for the man, it's the death of his beloved wife, leaving
him to take care of two small daughters who adored him...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOAlBGq625g&feature=related
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