In "Going Ashore," a woman on a long journey observes: "Today I was in Africa… But Africa had become unreal".
At the end of the play, Mary, who, of all the characters, has made perhaps the longest emotional journey, observes her gay son, his lover, and her bereaved grandson, whose mother has died of aids.
While the patterns of occasional journeys observed might have a smaller impact on disease spread than commuting distances, due to the lower frequency of journeys, infrequent but very long distance trips are likely to play an important role in spreading diseases between regions, particularly in areas like Huangshan, where commuting is limited to very short distances.
Where these children end up, and what their parents think of their destination, is a journey worth observing.
Freedom is illusory in his novel, and iniquity unbound by latitude, but he knows that the story of slavery is fundamentally the story of America, and he uses Cora's journey to observe our nation, from an upper-crust mixed-race family in Boston to a farming community in Indiana.
During the interviews surrounding Maddy and Sophia's journey, Ashley observed first-hand that even though a girl goes through high school fully aware of her dreams and with full intent of achieving them, soon after her college years, she starts to feel confused, as if she is fighting a battle she doesn't understand, which often leads to her changing her original goal, or simply giving up.
Deriving its structure from the travel journals of avant-garde poet Henri Michaux, the film follows Michaux's journey across Ecuador, observing its citizens in independent, subtly composed static shots.
There are growing pains, but there is no doubt that this is a journey well worth observing.
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Traveling is always a beautiful journey, and I love observing cultures, and how they express their ways of life.
