RN Documentary: Whether Diaries
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:40
Two women at opposite ends of the world (Amsterdam and Sydney) living very different lives feel like outsiders in their cities and imagine another life elsewhere.
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Two women at opposite ends of the world (Amsterdam and Sydney) living very different lives feel like outsiders in their cities and imagine another life elsewhere.
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Marjorie Van Halteren
Posted on June 16, 2006 at 03:22 AM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Whether Diaries
This program sent me into a daze and a reverie with its confident beauty. Two women trying to decide if they've made the right decisions, especially about place. The program seemed so aimed at me personally, down to Dhjeera's portrayal of the ex-pat's favorite activity: complaining about their adopted country. The ex-pats, travelling in their little herds, what a bunch of losers/winners, genuises/fools! So brave and admirable and so cowardly too. So enlightened and so ignorant. Citizens of the world caught in various decades. So nice to know we're the same everywhere.
I don't think it would be only my kind that would love this, though. Because the secret is that almost everyone I've ever met worries at one moment or another whether they should have invested the precious time of their short lives somewhere else then where they did. Is it too late to change? IS it me or here? And then always settling on the ultimate truth, of course, that you take yourself with you whither you go.