Monsoon Wedding

[sun_set_bravely]

I finally saw "Monsoon Wedding" last night, and I love it! Beautifully directed, with such rich and interesting characters. We need more female film directors in this world.

Also, it reminded me how much I want to go to India some day. Throughout the movie last night, I found myself wishing that I was Indian. Someone else's world often looks more interesting than one's one, doesn't it?

Question for the audience: What country/culture/era other than your own looks mysteriously attractive to you? Do you find yourself unexplicably drawn towards another place or time than the one you're currently in?

My answers: I'm an Anglophile, so modern-day England looks pretty good to me. Also: India, Japan, the European Middle Ages, and pre-Pilgrim America.

Comments

[microbie.livejournal.com]

I've often thought about this. My practical side says that I'm living in the perfect time, given my many health problems and liberal political views (and being female). That said, I wouldn't mind being an 19th-century Parisian, assuming that I was a member of the bourgeoisie. I would love to have experienced the music, arts, and sciences that were being developed at the time. I also think medieval or perhaps a little earlier time in Persia would have been amazing. And just about anywhere in the ancient world would be fascinating, though I'd probably be slave labor no matter where I was.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention that qualification in my post: "that you feel drawn to, regardless of whatever impracticalities there would be in actually going there". Because my practical side says the same thing when I think about where else I'd like to be. I'm glad that you let your impractical side answer the question as well!

[echoboom.livejournal.com]

ive recently been drawn into older asian influences from watching some a lot of kung fu films...
i really dig the japanese samurai and i find it more interesting than some of my cultures history.....the hardware is sweet..

[freak1c.livejournal.com]

Wales. Caer Chrisle. Abergavenny blew my mind with the lamb and the small streets and pebbles and to sallyforth and slash monsters thusly with my trusty blade. and to eat meat. and save wenches. ah yes. The Mabinignon days for me please.

Oh and Italy. the food, the women, the food. the food. the culture.

and hm... more later

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just noticed how similar our userpics are! Maybe we're both looking at the same thing. Maybe Bravo just went down behind us. Or, more likely, Mister the Dog just passed his unspeakably noxious gas.

[paularubia.livejournal.com]

I grew up an Anglophile, particularly enthralled by the late-Victorian London art/literary scene.

I also wish I could have been part of the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, and I wish I could have been cranking out screenplays in the Hollywood of the 30's and 40's.

But now, I have intense interest in Mexican culture (especially Mexican art) and in, of all things (it's only taken my whole life to find it interesting) ... Texas.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Texas is a big one. I wonder -- is it the only state in the U.S. to dedicate a full year of middle school history to itself? 6th grade: World History, 7th Grade: Texas History, 8th Grade: U.S. History. When I told my boyfriend (from Maryland) this, he found it absurd. It seemed normal to me at the time!

It would have been great to be at the Algonquin Round Table. A challenge to keep up with those wits, but fun!

My big fat greek wedding

[blushblush.livejournal.com]

I love this movie...
and it makes me want to experience one Greek day!
Another choice is to become an Eskimo...
really want to experience the total coldness
and a very different way of living.
I also think about ancient Chinese history.
I would love to go back to the Tang dynasty of China,
to experience the ancient form of globalization and prosperity...
people in that age were doing bubble bath, SPA and enjoyed special spices from the middle east! How fascinating is that!

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know, this is from a really old journal posting...
By the way, congrats on finishing the manuscript!

I have always wanted to go back to about 1800 around the San Francisco Bay. I want to know what the hills looked like, and the bay too. I want to talk to the native peoples, eat unpolluted shellfish and be able to drink from the streams again.

Elsewhere in the world, I'll second the Wales vote. Somewhere in Mid Wales. Along about 100CE. Before the Christians came.

I want waterproof exterior clothing, in my pack, needles, asprin, a good knife, a large box of waterproof matches (for emergencies) some black tea, a good synthetic braid rope, a compass and I'm sure there are all kinds of other things...

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I have never been to San Francisco, but I hear marvelous things about it! I can only imagine how this country looked and felt before the Europeans arrived and devoured it.

Where did you surf from?

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

I love living in San Francico...

Not sure what path I took to your journal... After some research I think it was kenhighcountry to nicklechief to you...

Anyway HI!

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I'm always intrigued how people can connect from across the country in such random ways.

Hello and welcome!

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

When someone I don't know posts in a friend's journal, I often go and read a bit in that journal. Then on to a second and perhaps third layer. Just my way of finding interesting folks who are reasonably articulate!

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I also find this to be a good technique for meeting new LJ people! Once, I tried looking for people by similar interest -- but I came up with the realization that just because I list the same interest as someone else does not mean that I would ever want to talk with them in real life.