Last week's movie was called Kosh Ba Kosh. It was a story of love and death, of beauty and destruction. Two distinct environments existed throughout the film. They were the city, with a civil war ragin all around. Gambling is rampant and everything seems to be dark and seedy. The mountain location is seen as a peaceful place where it seems nothing can go wrong.
The bridge between these two locations is the lift between the two. The lift itself reminds me of Greek mythology, of the story of Charon, the ferryman of Hades. When people died, they would have a coin placed in their mouth to pay toll for the ferry in Hades. They would then be allowed to cross the river in Hades to join the land of the dead properly.
The lift often seems to be a bridge where anything can happen and both environments often blend. Love and hatred exist in harmony within the lift like life and death mix until the destination is met. This is the rule used throughout the film, keeping both sides separate, until the end, when the gatekeeper, Daler, allows gambling to corrupt the mountain paradise, killing the love between Daler and Mira.
Essentially, the lift is the gap between the two very different worlds, with Daler as a Charon of sorts, ferrying people back and forth, sometimes at a price.
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WOW I have never heard that story in Greek Mythology but that sounded really interesting. I mean this blog really makes me want to go and search for it online or something. I had thought of that while watching the film, the fact that lift was the entering point to both worlds was extremely prevelant. He really was the gate keeper. Now that you mention it, this makes me think about the scene with the man having sex in the lift and his wife was on the ground. He was in the middle of both worlds in a sense, he was corrupted yet his wife was still close enough to know. I thought about this after reading your blog.
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