This movie is so romantic! I really enjoyed it. Movies in College are much better than that crap that we had to watch in High School.
This movie does have an immense repetition to it. It's far more repetitive than in part 1. An example of this is that damn doorbell! The Viewer really notices the interruption every time Zenhya and Nadya get close. In the end, they even express they're frustration towards this. It also creates excitement because Ippolic could be at the door ready to become angry, and all the viewer wants is for Nadya to have a nice evening without getting hit.
I'm sure I'm not alone when I think about the ending for Ippolic. I thought he was to stay out in the cold with only the burning of his anger at Zenhya to keep him warm! But that is most certainly not the end of his role. He completly switched roles into something as common to Zenhya. He gets completly SMASHED. He returns and basically tells what someone could call poetry. This is almost like a rebirth for him, because Zenhya has discussed with him that his strength is his flaw. He's too strong willed, and is left to not enjoy life and it's accidents. When he returns he curses the ways of life now and its utter boringness. He wished that lovers would climb to eachothers window and do everything for eachother. He really wants lovers to go crazy for eachother. He recapps the story for the two amd makes it seem like a legend.
The end really made me believe they would never see eachother again. Until the end when she returns, Zenhya asks her how she found her way, which is silly. His friends return to see him, making the conclusion of the move TOTOTOTOTALLY heartwarming.
Good Movie. Great Job.
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And note some of the strange symmetries inherent in the Ippolit shower scene: he also is trying to wash and cleanse himself (in a way that parodies Zhenya in the banya earlier--note that both are drunk as they bathe; and he also tries to sing in that scene (perhaps parodying the ever-musical Zhenya and Nadya).
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree that Ippolit delivers a stark message in that scene that can almost read as a dark, straightforward interpretation both of what happens in the film and of what happens in life in general.
Wouldn't it be interesting to imagine an alternative version of the film shown from Galya's and Ippolit's perspectives? And might that not be one of the darkest films imaginable?