Go right ahead. List the many genres in this movie. Or more like, list all the moods you received in the movie. For me? Laughter,happiness, deep sorrow, anger or fristration, and a little bit of some thrills were put in there.
I knew from the beginning that I would focus on Katya(mainly because I thought she would be the same character, and, if there could only be one, she is.
They way it started out made me miss Spring and Summer. Just the way she walked down the street without a coat. I guess I just usually picture Russia with a lot of snow.
Followed by the Katya and Lyudmila watching the apartment, I was thinking the whole movie would take place there. As in, the movie would have a time span of 1 month.
I was very wrong.
When the girls call the guys, I was lead to believe that the girls would maintain these relationships with these guys throughout the whole movie. They would all fall in love, and eventually there would be a problem towards the end of the film which would eventually be solved.
Wrong again. Dead wrong.
Antonia stays with Nikolai through the whole film. I...don't quite recall seeing her before they get married.
BAM. The movie switches right when Katya says she pregnant. The movie isn't cute all of sudden, but DAMNIT, I REALLY CARE ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS. IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY, GIRLS!! End of Part 1.
"Part 2. Okay, got my tea, and I'm ready to figure what's going to happen. OH. We're like...20 years later." When seeing everybody, it's very depressing to see what they have become. Characters seem lonely. Life isn't quite going the way everyone's wanted it to. But Katya has a stable job, which is up lifting. I enjoy how they are all still friends. Thank goodness they have each other.
I hated the part where she meets the ex boyfriend who has a family. It's kind of disturbing. At first I thought that it was the father of her child.
Wrong again.
But that part showed to me a change in Katya. I just feel that she wouldn't have done that when she was younger. Try and sleep with a married man. I'm glad she didn't go through with it.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, which I'm sure that most of were waiting for him to come, Gosha arrives. At first, just by looking at him, he didn't seem like the perfect guy. I thought he was just some guy hitting on her.
Nope. Wrong again.
This guy ends up reminding me of 'the dreamy right man' the girl protagonist finds in American romantic comedies. He's just really weird, but certainly brings hilarity. "I yell in my sleep." Best line throughout the movie. His dialogue with Katya reminds me of the writing in a Wes Anderson movie. WHICH HAS SOME DAMN GOOD WRITING. He can cook, and he's the nicest guy ever. He just not the type of guy the girls have been hating throughout the whole film. He's an excellent role model. And just leaves me to look at him and say, "I wanna be like that guy!"
The 'thrill' in this movie just meant the fight he has with the guys. 2 to 5. Or would it be 3? Well, it was just hilarious, and the most masculine part in all of the 2 hours and 30 minutes.
When Rudolph re enters, it's awkward and he gives guys a bad a name. Not being able to recognize the woman you've impregnated...is really hard to think about. Luckily, Gosha is there.
A great film with a great ending line. "I've been waiting for you."
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I like (among all the other fun things here) how you point out that the film so often defies our expectations.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice also how there is a lot of symmetry to the two parts of the movie. Generally, if something is mentioned or there's a scene of something in the first half, it's often repeated in some strangely altered way in the second. For example, Rudy telling Katya to get lost at that park bench on Gogol Boulevard--and then twenty years later Katya telling *him* (now known as Rodion) to get lost, at that very same park bench! Also, the conversations about television making the world unrecognizable in twenty years...and also the bikes driving people off the dirt paths by the dachas in the first half, and the motorcycles doing the same thing in the second!
I also agree with you that it's interesting how much of a warm weather flick this is. There you go: Irony of Fate for the winter months, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears for the summer!
Ya i notice that too, it was kind of weird wacthing a film that had warm weather, well not warm but no snow and but they still had jeans and sweaters on.
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