Question: why did you make no man's land?

Question: why did you make no man's land?

Answer: Well, a long time ago I was looking up online and I found something online about a baby, a mixed possibly Indian but definitely Jarawa baby, a Jarawa is a race of ancient but still alive people who live in India and is one of the indigenous peoples of India.

In the Jarawa, they (rarely) kill the children of widows, there are only around 400 of them as we know of, maybe more due to how people make babies, definitely more. They always even rarer kill mixed kids.

None of the town's folk in the story of No Man's Land are Jarawa at all, nor does the story take place in India.

An Indian man wrote as he was watching over them that the children's faces haunted him but he couldn't mess with people's cultures and in their culture they let the child be nursed by every woman in the tribe who could lactate and then they'd killed the baby.

a baby that was mixed was taken to the hospital with his mother and the doctor hid the baby from the other Jarawa because she was scared that the Jarawa will kill the baby.

Why didn't they stop the killings? Now, know that the Jarawa is a race and not just a group of people, they don't all agree with the murder. Their leaders might but they don't all agree, the reason the Indian government doesn't do anything about it is because if it was done in by ritual, basically, they are trying to conserve the rituals of the indigenous peoples of India so they can't really mess with it, they won't put you in jail for the murder.

The Jarawa do kill outsiders and this is because of some conflict they had back then some poachers were coming out and killing their cattle and they needed the cattle to eat and ended up settling for other foods but some of their families wouldn't eat them. They asked the poachers to stop but the poachers never stopped so some of the Jarawa would go out and kill the poachers.

Not all.

a preacher tried to go over there and preach to the Jarawa but he ended up getting killed by one of the Jarawa men.

some outsiders have harassed the Jarawa, insulted them, made fun of them and maybe even try to rape or sexually assault them and some were just playing with them. I understand why they don't like outsiders. Not all hate outsiders but some.

You can go to jail, like the Indian government will put you in jail for having sex with someone from the tribe. There are guards watching over the tribe trying to keep outsiders from coming in.

Some people advocate for the tribe killing some of the mixed children and children of widows.

The reason why in the story no man's land the outside and the buildings and the people looked pretty was because the fact that it was trying to portray how I saw the Jarawa, when i saw my first documentary on them, I saw they looked all so happy and nice, it seemed everything was cool, everything was calm, everyone seemed like to have a great life and some people were trying to take their land and buy it and this would have had problems making them homeless and they didn't really have money and you didn't need money because of where they lived but it would have caused problems to make them like have to buy houses and stuff.

But later on as I began to investigate more into the Jarawa and just happened to randomly run across some news articles I realized that they have another problem.

the symbolism in the story The beautifulness is a town symbolizes how things look good on the outside of their brutality of the townspeople, especially when one of the characters say you know this place isn't as perfect or as beautiful as it looks.

I used it to mean that the town has some serious issues that make it ugly and terrible, when you see the movie, you know it isn't good, but the town visually is so pretty that you'd have no idea and think it was full of nice people.

I wanted the story to be done from the perspective of the people who were, like, being killed out of culture because I wanted people in India who actually respected the Jarawa culture enough to allow kids getting killed, I wanted them to see it from people who are in that situation's point of view.

Because if I was in that situation and I knew that I was in danger but that nobody would ever help me except for maybe some nice bystanders in the society I'd be upset and I would try to fight for my rights.

I used the character Loria to show the perspective of a person who sees it as wrong and because of the bond that Loria forms with Bonnie, including Galina's mother for this, how a mother would feel in that situation if she is not on the side that's getting killed she is on the side that doesn't get killed but she is in a situation where culturally and ritually they kill her child.

So she tries fervently and harshly and with severe determination to protect that child, no matter what the others say.

The town used to be populated with a whole bunch of people but after a while that whole bunch of people left and moved to other towns, this is because they were afraid they'd maybe become next like the Jews, they looked white some of them so basically when they left they were afraid of being mistaken and some were mistaken for Russians. The townsfolk didn't hate all white people,. they only hated Russians.

Some people left because they were disgusted by the town's ideas of culture and how it trumps human life to the town's leaders.

I wanted to write it from the point of view of the murdered, the race targeted, the murderers see the loss of this part of their culture as annoying, the ones who are killed by it see the continuation of it as devastating.