This 80's Moscow movie, I was amazed after watching it, except for the content of the last 30 minutes or so that surprised me. The film is represented by three women, Katya, Antonina, and Lyudmila. Through their half-life ups and downs, the film vividly demonstrates the full vitality of Moscow women, their desire and appeal for love and family.
The film also reflects the former Soviet Union's respect for intellectuals' traditions and the atmosphere of the times. For example, the female supporting actress Lyudmila chose the library as the place to fish for the "golden turtle son-in-law", and the target audience included academicians, engineers, poets... senior intellectuals at that time High social status, not low income, is considered a privileged person. It really makes it unbelievable that it was not as good as selling tea eggs to make atomic bombs.
The heroine, Katya, was ill-mannered when she was young, but was rejected by the other's family when she got pregnant unexpectedly. She had to raise her children alone, work and study without giving up her dreams, and later grew into a large factory manager who managed more than 3,000 people. This 40-year-old woman is beautiful, independent, decisive, and very attractive.
But under the camera, she has never met mr.right, not lonely. She dates married men only to satisfy her physical needs.
She despised "sissy", she said: those who go to concerts and plays are all sissies. (So the real men of the fighting nation all ride bears?) Later, Katya really met a manly senior fitter, Guo Sha, who was tall, capable, upright and kind, and was able to go to the hall and the kitchen.
But he is really a chauvinist, who believes that men have a higher status than women at home, and does not accept that women earn more than men (this is not the Qing Dynasty, it is the Soviet Union that has not yet disintegrated in the 1980s). But Katya's position and income are higher than him, so Katya and her daughter have been hiding the truth from him.
Katya's daughter was harassed by the little boy, and Guo Sha took her friends to teach the gangsters a lesson. After Katya found out, she expressed her disapproval in a stern tone, and Guo Sha put her face down: Don't talk to me in this tone, or I won't come in the future.
On the bright side, Guo Sha is reminding Katya not to bring the strong woman's arbitrary style into the family, but from the actual perception, this is simply a prank. I thought Katya with strong self-esteem would dance. When she got up to tear it apart, she never expected that Katya was just stunned for a moment, her attitude softened immediately, and she apologized to Guo Sha. Is the back and waist of the fighting nation aunt all white? It is said that machismo is the tradition of the fighting nation, and the men of 9102 are still like this.
Guo Sha learned about Katya's real social status, and her little heart couldn't stand it. When Katya's friend found Guo Sha, he was struggling. Guo Sha said that in Katja's mind, position is more important than character. When did Katya say that? This is a hat for Katya, a little eye in a macho body.
The machismo and masculine self-confidence may have something to do with the male-to-female ratio in Moscow at the time. The film mentioned that the ratio of single men and women registered in the factory singles club was 1:2, and there was even a huge disparity in which a 40-year-old single man was "targeted" by five unmarried women.
The film also tells about two other girls with different personalities, who have different life patterns from Katya.
The simple Antonina married an equally honest husband, lived in the countryside and worked as a worker for half her life, perfectly inheriting the life style of the older generation of the working and peasant class, having a bunch of children, living a beautiful life, and loving her family and friends. Likewise, the women in this family must give men enough dignity and decency. When my husband was introducing the seed growth process to his future daughter-in-law, he was persuaded by Antonina not to be so verbose. The old man was displeased, how could he interrupt me? The screenwriter appreciates this kind of simple life, and borrows Katya's words to say, I don't envy anyone, only your (Antonina) life.
The glamorous Lyudmila, an adventurist and opportunist, sees Moscow as a big lottery and hopes to one day win the lottery and enter high society. She found a celebrity athlete, Gu Lin, who loved her, and it seemed like a good marriage. After marriage, Gu Lin began to drink heavily and lost his job. In the end, the two got divorced. After all, Lyudmila did not live the life she wanted. This may be the screenwriter's trick. There are unfortunate traps hidden under the unearned happiness bubble, which is a wake-up call for girls who hold a Lyudmila-style concept of marriage and love.
Filmed in 1979, the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the social and political environment of the former Soviet Union at that time, it attracted the hearts of the people of the fighting nation. In today's view of the film, the characters and stories are not out of date. In particular, the character Katya has the ability and perseverance, and the courage to call the shots in my life (except for the traditional compromise to machismo, which makes people feel a little caught off guard).
If the background of the times is switched to the present, in the context of women's self-esteem and self-love in China, when Guo Sha ordered Katja not to speak to him in that tone, Katya's response may be a rude sentence . It's not training, or it's rough, and it's beautiful to live alone.
All in all, it's a beautiful film, and let me end with an equally beautiful, lyrically restrained theme song—
Everything will not appear in an instant. Moscow was not built in a day. Moscow does not believe in tears, but only in love. On the silvery white fields, there are green trees everywhere. Pedestrians get warmth from Moscow, and the earth gives small trees green affection.
Moscow has beautiful mountain pear trees, oak trees stand tall, and rows of (wood ash) trees, with dense branches and leaves in no time. Moscow will be covered with new green in the near future, and small trees can be found in Moscow. soil of.
Moscow does not hide her sorrows, she has gone through hardships and hardships, but she can conquer all difficulties and obstacles. Moscow's love is not lightly thrown away, this love is faithful and simple, the most powerful force in the world is the caress of a mother.
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