Satyajit Ray | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Satyajit Ray.

Satyajit Ray | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Satyajit Ray.
This section contains 1,103 words
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"It adds years to your life," the young men from Calcutta in Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest say of the country quiet, and it's easy to believe. Ray's images are so emotionally saturated that they become suspended in time and, in some cases, fixed forever. Satyajit Ray's films can give rise to a more complex feeling of happiness in me than the work of any other director. I think it must be because our involvement with his characters is so direct that we are caught up in a blend of the fully accessible and the inexplicable, the redolent, the mysterious. We accept the resolutions he effects not merely as resolutions of the stories but as truths of human experience. Yet it isn't only a matter of thinking, Yes, this is the way it is. What we assent to is only a component of the pattern...

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This section contains 1,103 words
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