The Flute Player-Cambodian Notes of Strength

The Flute Player was an incredibly stirring, dramatic work of film that made its audience realize the importance of music and art in spite of a history that is so clouded in despairing recent history. Cambodia has been recently known for the rise of a vicious political leader in the 1970's which produced "The Killing Fields", from which spawned a period of corruption and death which nearly wiped out music as well as any flame of hope for Cambodian future.

Arn, an artist who lived during this desperate time, found me in my comfortable American seat and took hold of my interest and my heart as he gradually shared his mission of hope and art so that the horrendous events which stained his childhood can be atoned for and somehow given a purpose in a new Cambodia.

POV is Arn and the film was shot as if it was in Arn's mind- he didn't make the film, also the film was not shot from the poverty perspective and was very forgiving concerning the quality of life for the people who were being interviewed about the killing fields and their musicality.

What would you do? ("I do this to keep me sane, If I didn't do this what would I live for?")

In my life, the question isn't necessarily what keeps me sane, but what doesn't keep me sane. I live because of life's stimulation on my person and my reaction to that. I couldn't live without many different tiny things not just one thing as proposed in the question. If I just lived for one thing, what would happen to me if that one thing suddenly vanished?

Question to ask myself: By understanding Arn's point of view how can I make a difference in my culture or heritage?

Arn struggled to create a new world amongst the ruins of his countries history which has inspired me to at least learn about my heritage if not change it so that I have the knowledge to move on and create something greater.