The Home Song Stories & PPIN

The Home Song Stories, the autobiographical second feature by (Macau-born) writer-director Tony Ayres, is a story of a boy, Tom, his sister May and their mother, Rose, a Shanghainese singer who lands in suburban Melbourne in the 60s with little English and no money. Rose's only assets are her beauty, her cheongsams and an ability to seduce men. What unfolds is a tale of epic emotions. http://www.homesongstories.com

"Everything that happens in The Home Song Stories actually happened in real life," says Tony. "I had an extraordinary, wild traumatic childhood, largely due to the erratic behaviour of my charismatic but mentally unstable mother. My sister and I were buffeted by these events, but survived, mainly because of our love for each other. But also because, in spite of everything, we knew that our mother loved us. As a film maker, I knew that I was compelled to tell this story eventually." To me, there's a clear message conveyed - Things happened in our childhood have great impacts in our personalities & behaviors. If unfortunately, we were hurt or mistreated while innocent, somehow we need an approriate channel to release the pain. Probably throught counselling, recounting the stories, open up the scars, etc. The ultimate goal as the film director said is "to accept, to forgive & to love……"

It reminds me of the unique IMD pre-course assignment: Personal and Professional Identity Narrative

PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Personal and Professional Identity Narrative is to provide you with a “working document” that will help you to orient yourself as you make personal and professional decisions in the course of your life. If you take the process of reflecting on your life seriously that the PPIN provides, it can help you to better understand the key events of your life and their continued influence.

PROCEDURE:
We are asking you to complete a 10 to 15-page draft of your PPIN before arriving to the programme opening dinner. You will be given the opportunity to re-visit your PPIN during the year, and to modify the contents as you reflect on your learning from the programme. A relatively complete working document would be a narrative of between 15 and 20 pages.

DESCRIPTION:
The PPIN will be a narrative essay describing:
where you have come from, i.e., the central influences—people and events—in your life,
where you are now in the course of your life, and
the general direction in which you feel you are headed, i.e., your sense of a provisional life plan, however indistinct it might truly feel...