 4 Dec 2005 @ 21:46, by John Ashbaugh
Travelers and Magicians
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Tells the story of a young man with an urgent desire to leave his village in Bhutan and go to America, his dreamland where he can work for lots of money and meet pretty girls, and rock and roll his way through life in his name-brand basketball shoes. He misses the bus and begins a vigil of waiting to hitchhike a ride from the occasional passer-by. Along the way he meets an old man with a basket of apples going to market, an itinerant young monk, and an elderly villager with his nineteen-year-old daughter. The monk tells a story along the way to his fellow travelers. The monk’s story is woven through the film in tandem with and parallel to the stories of the travelers on the road, going from one ride to another, sometimes on foot, all with the common destination of the city a hundred miles away, the young man presumably to go from there to America, the apple farmer to sell his apples, the monk for the festival, and the elderly man and his daughter, simply returning home. The monk’s story is a story in itself, and the entire movie is seen through two stories, one within the other, from beginning to end.
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