Apur Sansar (The World of Apu). Satyajit Ray, 1959.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #785, included in box set #782 The Apu Triology, released 2015. Bengali language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.
Summary: Pig injury; Killing of a bird.
Details:
1) We hear a pig squeal at 1:15:29 as a train is passing, with a cut to an injured, probably dying, pig lying beside the tracks. People rush to carry him away through 1:15:37.
2) Apu’s son kills a songbird with a slingshot. We see the bird lying dead at 1:22:10, and the boy messes with the body through 1:22:58.
Apu’s son, appearing at the end of this third film in “The Apu Trilogy,” shares qualities we saw in young Apu in the first film (Pather Panchali). During the bird-killing scene the boy wears a mask with a prominent mustache, then uses the dead bird as a ruse to steal food. This recalls young Apu’s targeting of a dog with an arrow (not actualized), wearing a fancy foil mustache, and the ongoing dramas of stealing food from neighbors.
