Rating: 8.7 / 10

"The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Satyajit Ray shows in 12 minutes of cinema without dialogues how impressionable the mind of a child can be, how the rich kid will have all the means to get one up over the poor kid but will always be insecure of the liberty the poor kid enjoys. It is this sense of liberty that would make the poor kid stand back up after a heavy loss. Robots will fall, the tune of the flute will be heard again. Imagine the rich kid to be the USA and the poor kid to be Vietnam. 12 minutes of Ray's cinema will tell you why America lost the war.