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- Chelsea Merz
- Username: chelseamerz
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Joined PRX: Sep 06, 2003
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- "RN Documentary: Tale of Two Women"
- Summary: A story of two friends who’ve lived very different lives: one travels the world in search of adventure, the other never leaves her house and garden.
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Review of RN Documentary: Tale of Two Women
Chelsea Merz
Posted on October 12, 2004 at 12:42 PM
This is unlike most things you hear on the radio. It isn't overly processed and there isn't much of a narrative arc. Like a quiet foreign film this piece focuses on character and small moments rather than earthshaking revelations and neatly tied up endings. Whether this piece were five minutes or 60, there's a sense that the effect would be the same: an insight into two women who lead very different lives. Their friendship is almost inconsequential to the piece, aside from establishing why we are hearing from these two women the responsibility is ours to imagine their friendship and to understand its endurance. It's hard to say when to play this-- Its slowness and simplicity certainly lends itself to Sunday afternoon broadcasting.