As part of the same three part project as Eat, Learn extended the touching essay on traveling away from home. What I found most impressive was how the trio of director found a common visual thread throughout – not just a common concept. Although “learning” was the focus, in order to organize and increase the effect of the film, the traveler’s focused on the hands of student and instructor. Hands crafting, playing instruments, or gesturing acted as an overarching symbol for learning new things – which can only be learned in a new environment, hence the return to the message of travel.
The parade of hands varies from soft to wrinkled, young to aged, clean to dirty, light to dark – all a testament to the diversity and exposure that travel brings us all. Sometimes short bursts of symbolism can be far more powerful than lengthy expositions of fact.
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