Recommend the "Trick of Fate", which has been in Russia for 40 years, to commemorate the director of this film who has just passed away on November 30, Russian "tragicomedy" film master Elidar Ryazanov (Eldar Ryazanov)-
Two cities, exactly the same address, a man accidentally breaks into a woman's room on New Year's Eve-dog blood misunderstands the chain and lovers eventually become married. "When I came to an unfamiliar city, I felt like I was at home." This line of the male protagonist in the film, which looks like a literary traveler, contains a secret of the collective memory of the former Soviet Union. The Chinese who are familiar with the "tube building" are not unfamiliar with the source of the apartment, which was built in batches and thousands of "buildings" in the Soviet planned economy era, commonly known as the "Khrushchev Tower". The black humor in the film begins with a drunken man who is "lost" and "misidentified" in the same apartment space in Moscow and Leningrad. This is an allegory of space. The address is no longer unique, the definition of "home" is difficult to original, and the individual is out of it. Those who are good will probably not only think about the “good brothers” of China and the Soviet Union, but can also criticize the kitsch of the post-modern consumer society: the so-called “copy” metaphor refers to both the architecture and the ideology, institutional chain and the chain behind it. Relations of production.
space also becomes the narrative itself. Ryazanov used parallel editing to show that two women were waiting for the New Year in similar apartments in two places: one waited until the unexpected guest fell from the sky; the other did not return. Coupled with the flow of mirror-moving passages that focus on the narrative in the nearly enclosed space in the Leningrad apartment, the audience is given a game-like impulse to "find the difference" between two twin sets of the same structure and different furnishings. The rich scene scheduling in this film makes the space a microscopic museum displaying daily life, such as the scratches of the full-length mirror, the hollow picture frame and the faucet of the period style. As an accidental intruder, the actor leads us to explore the most common private living space in the utopia that was built in the name of the collective.
One last digression: In the film, the protagonist and heroine met in an apartment called Leningrad. The actual filming location was located at 113 Vernadsky Avenue in Moscow. Ryazanov's other kind of humor is right.
At that time, the daily furnishings in home life-mirrors were also important props for the space modeling in the film
One of the clever compositions in the film; the male protagonist Lukashin at the home of the female protagonist Najia in Leningrad
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