Sunday, January 23, 2011
Little Vera
The film we watched was called Little Vera and i found this film to be just depressing. The thing i noticed was how the make most of the scenes in this film very shady or sketchy looking. They made it just look like a very poor terrible place to grow up in and it really set the mood for the entire film. This is in sharp contrast to the movie Moscow does not believe in tears where in that film many of the scenes are in very beautiful scenic places. The reason for this is to give a good appearance of the Soviet Union and Little Vera gives off the exact opposite kind of vibe to the viewers. Another thing i noticed about this film was all of the drinking in it and how badly it effected the characters in the film. It seemed like whenever they started to drink in this film only bad things happened after. Vera's father is the character in this film who really becomes a bad person when he drinks and it negatively effects every character in the movie. I feel some extreme sympathy for Vera she just cannot seem to catch a break in the movie, and she seemed to be kind of ignorant of her whole life situation. I wasn't suprised at all when i saw her try and commit suicide at the end and honestly i can't really blame her.
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I'm not sure if Vera ACTUALLY was trying to commit suicide at the end of the film. I think she was just trying to not feel the pain of losing Sergei rather than end her life, but I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the different treatments of drinking: Definitely! In *Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears* a bunch of people sitting around a table drinking vodka leads to everyone shouting "Gorko!" to get newlyweds to kiss. In this movie, on the other hand, it leads to a father stabbing his son-in-law!
ReplyDeleteAs for whether Vera tries to commit suicide at the end, I concede that it's a bit hazy and she herself may not be entirely clear what she's up to--but the fact is she takes a *huge* number of pills at once, which generally only can mean one thing. Plus she is lying on her back with a picture of herself as a child plus a sparkler (perhaps replicating the pose of someone in a coffin at a funeral?).