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Affecting, educational and inspirational - a story of hope for our tumultuous times
I’m so happy I watched this outstanding drama. Even though there were not all happy moments and the characters I cared deeply about endured enormous suffering for years on end, it really does validate the sentiment that “heaven is other people”.
Sometimes people may first appear as an insignificant “little bug”, or so sheltered by privilege that their hurts might not register as profoundly as some, but in all it is people’s bravery, determination, self reflection and personal growth that makes all the difference.
As much as I was looking forward to the moment they all meet together again (after one other character I regretfully accepted wouldn’t be part of the big reunion) I still was not prepared for the dramatic emotional punch when they did.
I cried many times during this well-paced and meticulously crafted historical drama for the extreme sacrifices so many in the global south have to make just to reclaim their land, labour and dignity from European and imperial invaders but I was also uplifted thinking of the anti-imperial liberation struggles still ongoing today in Cuba and Venezuela; in Yemen, DRC, The Alliance of Sahel States, and Sudan; in Russia and North Korea; and in Iran and Palestine as well as many more, that a better world is eventually possible if we resist and fight.
I wish many full moons and full hearts for those who fight still even when the odds seem overwhelmingly outside their favor.
This is more than a historical retrospective; for communities still engaged in struggle and those in solidarity with them, Echoes of a Thousand Moons is an inspiration for our equally tumultuous and epoch-defining times.
Sometimes people may first appear as an insignificant “little bug”, or so sheltered by privilege that their hurts might not register as profoundly as some, but in all it is people’s bravery, determination, self reflection and personal growth that makes all the difference.
As much as I was looking forward to the moment they all meet together again (after one other character I regretfully accepted wouldn’t be part of the big reunion) I still was not prepared for the dramatic emotional punch when they did.
I cried many times during this well-paced and meticulously crafted historical drama for the extreme sacrifices so many in the global south have to make just to reclaim their land, labour and dignity from European and imperial invaders but I was also uplifted thinking of the anti-imperial liberation struggles still ongoing today in Cuba and Venezuela; in Yemen, DRC, The Alliance of Sahel States, and Sudan; in Russia and North Korea; and in Iran and Palestine as well as many more, that a better world is eventually possible if we resist and fight.
I wish many full moons and full hearts for those who fight still even when the odds seem overwhelmingly outside their favor.
This is more than a historical retrospective; for communities still engaged in struggle and those in solidarity with them, Echoes of a Thousand Moons is an inspiration for our equally tumultuous and epoch-defining times.
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