Movie Arabela: a fairy tale between two worlds
Written by cd on January 9, 2007 – 10:43 pm -
I watched this movie on Vietnamese channels as a little kid and liked it a lot and so did many other kids, even adults. Soon I’d completely forgotten about the movie until I talked to J. one day as we were walking the around a small coastal city in Oregon. We sat on a bench in front of a supermarket when I asked him if he knew anything about Arabela. He couldn’t fathom how on earth us Vietnamese knew about a fairy Czech movie.
True. At the first glance, Czech and Vietnam seems so far away, so unrelated. But if you think a little longer, you’ll remember that both Czech and Vietnam were under Communism for many years. I don’t know anything before the 80s, but during the 80s and 90s, we watched many Russian movies and once in a while Czech’s.
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