Saturday, January 22, 2011
Little Vera
This film was about a troubled girl(Vera) who is basically rebelling against her family. Vera argues with her parents nonstop and goes to parties where are fights and drugs. She leads on a boy named Andrei but she falls in love with a player named Sergei. Eventually she decides to get married to him which she seems to do to piss off her family. She family doesn't like Sergei and the dad at one point stabs him. After this point vera tries to OD on pills and alcohol. The movie ends with Sergei moving back with them and Vera saying she loves him and he doesn't say anything. This film was different from another film we have watched so far because it showed the internal conflicts in a family and was against drinking. I found it strange that when Vera was getting married Sergei moved into there house no questions asked. That would never fly in America but is very common in Russia. One person who we didn't see much in the film but is probably the one person holding the family together was Victor. He comes home to talk to Vera when she's rebelling, he saves Vera when she overdoses, he gives the family antidepressants, and is the pride and joy of the parents. I almost feel sorry for him because him family depends on him so much and he starts to get in trouble with work because he keeps going back to help his family. Over all this movie shows how alcoholism harms the family and how ones persons actions effects the family.
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Victor is a very understated and interesting character in this film. On the one hand he does do a pretty admirable job of holding things together with his family back home (considering the awfulness and difficulty of the circumstances)...but it's clear that his own family situation in Moscow is also in pretty bad shape (with it being strongly suggested that he's a) either broken up with his wife or b) that she doesn't want to have anything to do with his family).
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how engaged couples would move into a parents house, no questions asked. That definitely would not be approved of in our society.
ReplyDeleteThere really was no other option...even if Sergei would have had a job (and he doesn't), there just wasn't housing available, especially as the USSR was starting to tank.
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