Two

This film validates my belief in the importance of scarcity.

You need to live in scarcity at least for some phase in your life. It inculcates the value of building instead of breaking things. This also made me recall a quote from The Fellowship of the Ring.

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" - Gandalf

Satyajit Ray's Two metaphorically represents many situations of difference in stature and violent egoist mentality. It can be a rich country gunning down a poor country, it can be a toxic colleague at your workplace trying to pull you down, or just a friend who is not able to digest you're better than him at something.

But the message is loud and clear, your relentless love and melody will eventually break the hollow ego of malevolent men like a house of cards.

And after that, they're left with nothing but regret.

The storyline by 'Nick Riganas' here just hits the spot,So I would recommend everyone to read that one first.

This exactly is happening too in the Russian war with Ukraine, with russia being the absolutely spoiled brat just unable to see the street urchin having his simple unbridled fun!. Sixty-plus years have passed, but the events portrayed are even true today and will be true another 600 years after now too. The envious/destructive human nature inherent in us all portrayed by the Master himself.

And Long before Pixar started to made their shorties, here we have the Master already making them way back in 1965...wow.

TWO, a antiwar (VIETNAM) film by Satyajit Ray, is a worth watching experience. However, this film impact much better then the films with dialogue. The rivalry between TWO kids is metaphor for human life and strata in our excising society.

How the rich kid oppressed the poor kid is symbolic representation on first world against the third world countries. It's also comment on how our imperfect society is influencing the kids and making theme rival when they must play and enjoy their freedom.

An excellent masterpiece by Ray, worth watching and stays in heart forever.

This is on Youtube.

I noticed there are no infos on the movie, and I don't know much about Ray himself, but I felt I should write something.

This short film is about a rich Indian kid who, upon seeing a kid in the garden in front of his house play a flute, immediately engages in a competition with him to see who owns the better toys.

It's a simple film with clear dramatic undertones and dealings of delicate themes, like greed, hate and separation. I'd love to give more info about it, but I am afraid I don't know enough about it to.

The film is shot in black and white on a small film camera. It's very raw, but conformist in its narrative structure.

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 him. His new pal goes and gets a drum - but the wealthier lad has a wind up monkey that can play two - at the same time. Not to be outdone, the poorer one returns wearing a menacing mask and wielding a bow and arrow. In response? Well another mask and a machine gun! Silence breaks out and the boys go their separate ways only for a kite to appear outside the barred windows of the house. It's freely darting about in the wind like a fish in a river but it's also fair game for a slingshot, or maybe even an air rifle? Now one boy's joy is another's sadness, one is smug the other despondent. Tenaciously, the flautist returns... This is quite a potent depiction of having things of value that are not really of value versus having nothing but having so much more. The effort from the young Ravi Kiran Karla as the boy who has everything is quite effective at engendering from the audience a sense that he's a spoilt and unlikeable kid whilst the expressions on the face of his poverty stricken counterpart illicit sympathy as Satyajit Ray offers us a subtle commentary on the haves and have nots. Though which has the most?