Such a simple task...... Pick two favorites from the Top 50 Multimedia Packages of 2010. My first choice after searching several was "Undesired" by Walter Astrada. Astrada is a Photo Journalist that brings video, pictures, and still images to life in this short documentary. The documentary begins with a woman feeling worthless because she has not given her husband a son. The culture for girls in India is that a woman is to cook, clean, and have a boy. For the women who have girls are often tortured, abandoned, and some even burned to their death. Being a woman and mother of two beautiful daughters this film sent emotional waves through my body. Is this really happening in this day and age?! It is after all 2011 and not 145BC. It's hard to complain about the price of gas and groceries that keep increasing. My complaints are nothing compared to the women of India that breed girls. I thank God for my life it may not be perfect but it's filled with love and desire.
So now that I'm depressed and think of India as a place that I would never want to visit. I decided to search something to make me smile. I saw the title "Goodnight Moon" and thought of my children who I've read Goodnight Moon to hundreds of times. Goodnight Moon be Margaret Cheatham Williams is a video with still images that follow a woman's 13 year battle with Parkinsons disease. It captivates the love this woman's husband and children have for her. It gives an intimate glimpse of aging with illness. Although it was sad and I found no relevance to the title "Goodnight Moon" it seemed more like a love story. I like that better "Goodnight Love".
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