Man and Stone in the Movies

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Recently I've seen two movies depicting groups of people
living in a way much more intimately, sometimes brutally,
connected to stone than the way in which I live. Women in
wintertime wading into a fast-running river to haul out
building stone!  They do the same for lumber and firewood
floating by.  Construction workers LIVE in the crazy-quilt
rubble-walled project they are building.  That is "Baran".
 In "Himalaya" there are just some quick scenes of a
stonework living compound, for animals and humans.  It's a
hand-smack to the forehead to see the living stone age, at
ease with material cast off from mountains.  In Himalaya
the stone work shows a true traditional scale and fit.  In
Baran, the construction project has gone mad, thowing up
brick and mortar to fill a gaping steel frame, as if
begging to chance an earthquake.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210727/
http://www.cinemajidi.com/baran/gallery/photos_F.html