Life is Like a Raindrop - Director/Writer MarieAnna Dvorak

1. Life Is Like A Raindrop
Director/Writer MarieAnna Dvorak

2. I grew up on the lap of a catholic priest, who was not different from priests
in America. It was during the time of postwar wounds when the whole
country suffered confusion after going from democracy to Nazism and
then to communism within 9 short years. A child doesn't understand what
is happening, but its instinct tells him that there is something wrong in the
air. Maybe that's why I have never forgotten mypriest's statement:
"Traitors and informers are the worst villains in the world." It was the time
when brother betrayed brother for a better chunk of meat. It was the dirty
tactic of the communistregime.
Being educated by religious psychology, which was totally againstthe
communistregime, led me to seek a free country. I reached that country
manyyears ago. But have I ever felt free?

3. "Ifyou don't ask, you don't get" wasn't my problem. One day I asked, and that was
the day I opened my eyes. The answer was, "You are foreign and we invest in U.S.
movies only." This answer was given to me by a Jewish woman 10 years ago in Los
Angeles. I came from an area highly populatedby Jews. I was born 60 km from
SigmundFreud's birthplace and my father was a Jew. The film project I was
pursuingwas a Disney kind of picture based on an European legend, as are most
Disney PG movies. That was the first time I felt prejudice.Not because of my
project, as there was nothing foreign in it, but because I was a foreigner. Parents of
thiswoman could have very well come to America from the same area as I did. But
a few decades before me. What is the difference between us? And when is the
prejudicegoing to end?
Just recently I received an email from a funding company that also sees my project
asa foreign one. Not because it speaks about the contradictionin political
ideologiesduring the Cold War era, but because I am a foreigner. Was Casablancaa
foreign film? Or Doctor Zhivago? How about the recent Spielberg'sfilm Bridge of
Spies? I could name hundreds of U.S. films of internationalgenre. The Cold War era
isessential part of our history, which can easily return in the near future and effect
the whole world. After all, Marxism-Leninism ideologyhasn't died with the fallof
the Iron Curtain. For Ideology, whether politicalor religious, can be hardly
defeated.

4. I decided to turn to you people with this subject, as it doesn't touch only my feelings,
but also feelings of many other people speaking with accent, such as Khizr Khan and
hiswife, as well as Melania Trump. Just think about the paradox. Isn't there a little
piece in your hearts that could accept a person being born in another country equalto
you? You were lucky that yourancestors came to America some yearsearlier. Is that
what gives you the right to feel superior? I must remind you again that this country
wasbuilt by your ancestors: Europeans.
America is full of paradoxes at this time. And it doesn't involvejust Hispanics, African-
Americansor Muslims. It involvespeople of the world. People of all kinds of skin
colorswith all kinds of cultural backgroundand languages. The rich and the poor.
America will fall apart in the future if Americansof all variety do not unite and respect
each other. No one is taking your business from you. In my case, yourfilm. I just
breatheyour air, as your breathe mine. You are born and will die, just like me. And
humanlife is so short, like a raindrop.
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