A Film Fable.
This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Writers: Satyajit Ray
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<b>Rating: 8.7 / 10</b> <blockquote> <i>"The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit."</i> <br><br> — Martin Luther King Jr. </blockquote> Satyajit Ray shows in 12 minutes of cinema without dialogues how impressionable the mind…
A bored young lad is wandering about his palatial home where has everything he is likely to need to eat, drink and play with. Then from his window he espies another boy outside playing on his makeshift flute. He then proceeds to get his more sophisticated instrument and out-blows…
