explaining my blog

i know that my blog may not be an usual production journal, so i will explain a few things. my part of the movie our group is making will be showing me write a poem in german, simple. my first blog is about what the poem will about, kumi. all of the others blogs will be me trying to explore memory. my poem will be about my how to deal with the memories of my mother. i will try to be as concrete as possible without over-explaning. i use the blog more as an exploration of ideas, rather than to set examples out. for me it is a ongoing process, not an ending.

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one major influence i have is 'Salman, the solitary' by Yashar Kemal. in the book he explores the war from the prespective of the turkish people who's lives were destroyed. and he does it without directly mentioning the armenian genocide, and many people who will the book will be affect by the content, without knowing the context. do the german have a book like Shizuko Go's "Requiem"? what is a victim? a movie that i like is "devil on the doorsteps" by Wen Jiang, it deals with the historical past in an very mature way. it is lays out its own wounds and mistakes, weaknesses, not just the historical enemy, like many movies about war.

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i am learning from Kemal, how to deal with my our troubled past, and i hope maybe that will create a ripple effect. will i be able to express myself well enough so that people can share my experience?