Recalling this story about fate, although it was a comedy from the former Soviet Union, I still managed to buy a disc and watch it again.
The male protagonist, a doctor who is about to get married, gets drunk with his friends on New Year's Eve and is put on a plane to Leningrad. Drunk, he goes to the same place as his home, thinking that he is back in his own home in Moscow.
(In that era, every city in the Soviet Union had the same road name, and many residences were designed in accordance with the standardization, almost all of them were exactly the same - in fact, is this not the case in many places in China? Which city does not have Yan'an Road, Zhongshan Road, Jiefang Road What about Renmin Road? The workshops built in the 1970s and 1980s are all the same, so don’t think it was an absurd arrangement by the director. Maybe one day this kind of thing will happen to you, I hope you don’t get drunk. )
The hero slept in someone else's bed and was driven out by the heroine, and soon the heroine's lover arrived (he came to propose to the heroine), and the heroine's fiancée was anxiously waiting for her groom in Moscow, This special New Year is as if you went to a stranger's house for New Year's Eve dinner, who happened to be married.
As a result, various misunderstandings arose, and the hero became more and more inexplicable and could not explain it. In the end, the heroine's lover was gone, and the bride who was waiting for him in Moscow cried.
Fortunately, the male protagonist can play the guitar, and the female protagonist is also good at it. There are six or seven large sections of guitar playing and singing in the whole film, all of which are Russian national-style melodies, which are really nice.
So, the hero and heroine fell in love on this odd New Year's Eve.
While the hero still returns to Moscow after dawn, while he lies in his home thinking it was just a dream, his Leningrad lover unlocks his door with his own key.
Ryazanov's work "The Trick of Fate", although it seems an impossible coincidence, has many inherent inevitability and logic, such as the same urban planning and housing of that era, the men who were drunk and the people who lived alone. Women, as well as people's instinctive desire for adventure, the romance in their bones - unexpected, reasonable.
Everything is fate, and fate plays tricks on each of us.
Interestingly, the male protagonist looks exactly like Putin. Considering that it is a 1975 movie, could he be Putin's distant brother?
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