Today we had the opportunity to enjoy Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. This movie was a very good movie. I am not normally attracted to this type of a movie, but I actually really liked it.
The three girl friends were the main characters in the film. They were great friends, but somehow very different from one another. Antonina represented a very, very modest girl. She didn't want much. She only wanted someone who she loved and would truly love her back. This is not to say that the other two did not want this as well, but this is all that she wanted. She didn't care about the money or the fame. Lyudmila, however, is the complete opposite. She is looking for a man with alot of security. She wants them to be rich and famous, therefore making her rich and famous. I find Katerina to be in between these two polar opposites. We sometimes see her wanting the more famous, wealthy men. I think that alot of this comes from the influence of Lyudmila though. Later in the film, more in the second half, we can see that she is more looking for the same type of thing that Antonina found.
One other difference that I noticed between parts, besides the change in Antonina, was that there was almost a change of luck in general if you would call it that. Everyone seemed quite a bit happier in the second part, whereas everything was kind of falling apart throughout the first part. In part one, Katerina is doing really crappy work. It is alot of hard labor. In the second part we see her being the boss figure of a plant.
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I also enjoyed this movie and also noticed that there was alot of luck. Even though Katya had a horrible beginning, she came back and ended up better than everyone else.
ReplyDeleteI like your suggestion that Katya shares qualities of both Lyudmilla and Antonina--as if she's kind of caught between them, and this tension needs to become a type of harmony (granted with the assistance of some good luck) before she can be happy.
ReplyDeleteI too don't normally go for "chick flicks"--and I guess you could say Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears sort of qualifies as one of those. One of the things I like most about the film is its amazing attention to detail--you can learn so much about Soviet and Russian culture just from looking carefully at all the scenes and backgrounds. *Everything* in that film is very carefully placed and shown. In addition to being a very memorable story, it serves as an invaluable cultural document.