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Summary: Part of my life
Comment: I first saw these three movies when I was in my twenties (I am now almost 65) in an art film theater in Portland, OR. All three movies at once. My friends and I took picnic lunches and spent the day. At the time, I thought that this was too long to spend in a movie theater with an aching [...]. I loved the movies, but it was too much to absorb all at once.
As it turns out, I keep returning to this trilogy faithfully every few years. I bought them separately and I sit in my Lazy Boy (not so hard on the rear) and watch all three over and over again. I am glad to see them released as a collection. They were not so easy to find one by one and before the advent of Amazon.com.
These films always have more to teach me about being a human being. The humor and the anguish and the despair are common to all of us. So is survival. I recommend the purchase of this trilogy because they should be viewed many times. There are so many nuances that you miss the first few times around. I can only imagine what they are like in the original language.
These are works of art.
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Summary: All the stars in the galaxy
Comment: Words of praise for the Apu Trilogy can only sound banal. Once you see it, you will know what I mean. This is one of the great works of art of our time.
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Summary: have to see atleast once in life time
Comment: Beautiful and poetic, addresses human condition and speaks language of humanity sans all boundaries we have created for ourselves. Have to see it atelast once in life time.Some of the memorable things are
how apu's mom is denied love the same way she denies the old woman
how apu dozes off when his mom was asking him if he would take care of him in future
the train scene
the rain, absolutely poetic
the old woman, cannot forget her face
how apu throws off the necklace into the pond
relationship between apu and sharila tagore
despite repeated blows of loosing loved ones, apu moves on
Cannot forget someof the scenes in the movie esp pather panchali (song of road), some of them kinda haunt me
esp Pather panchali ( song of the road ) was beautiful
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Summary: if you never see another movie again...
Comment: these movies are unquestionably the most important movies I have ever seen. I have difficulty believing I will ever see another movie that even rivals these movies. Absolutley stunningly beautiful, these movies destroyed me, and brought me deeper into touch with my own humanity. The deceptively simple subject matter is the strength of these films, one would imagine a film about a boy growing up, losing family members, and eventually marrying and raising a child would be pretty boring, that's life one might say... but Ray, and his cinematographer, bring such stunning beauty, and poigniancy to the story, there are no words in the English language to describe the loss that would be yours if you did not see these films at least once in your life.... And if you did not see the remastered versions, because the older versions are impossible to watch, because the picture quality is so bad, and the white subtitles blend in with the picture. In these remastered versions, the picture quality is GREATLY restored, revealing the true beauty of the films imagery, and the subtitles have been done in yellow, clarifying all mysteries about the dialouge.
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Summary: FANTASTIC MOVIES
Comment: All 3 movies in the trilogy are oustanding on their own. They all have the heart of humanity at the center and work around human relationships, whether it be sister-brother, mother-son or husband-wife. They are an absolute treat to any movie lover.
