Message from rrustamzadeh

[Anonymous]

Memoir of a Geisha is on my list to see. But I want to talk about a movie that I borrowed from Mr. Ball a few weeks ago ,”From Mao to Mozart ” I have been having a hard time putting my feelings to words about this movie, that is why I’m writing with a big delay, about this documentary.
This movie, although is educational, but it makes you cry, makes you sad, makes you angry, makes you smile, makes you laugh, and makes you wonder about life.
In 1979 Isaac Stern visited China as an official guest of the government to give concerts, travel the countryside and say hello with music.
Filmmaker Murray Lerner documented this trip, and the resulting movie won the 1981 Academy award for the Best Documentary. Although the focus is more on Stern and not on China, but It gives you some good ideas about what it means to be locked in behind those high mountains, plateaus, deserts and seas, and not being able to share all the goodness that existed behind the great wall. Isaac admires the talented young musicians who are thirsty to learning.
It is nice that a second movie is attached to this CD which shows the return of Stern to China some twenty years later, and the audience gets a chance to see the eager faces of the children during the first visit, as successful adult musicians.
What was most interesting to me was the story of a professor which was told with a genuine honesty and a great deal of emotions. The fact that he was thrown in jail by the son of his friend, and the fact that he was treated like an animal and degraded for no crime was heartbreaking.
There is more history to learn in this movie than anything else.
I watched it four times. I think you might want to see it at least once.