Ночной дозор

I don't really know what to say about this movie to be totally honest and upfront. For me this is one of the more confusing movies we have seen in our class. This movie was like a cross between Star wars, Twilight, Lord of the Rings, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer all thrown into one. This was vary tough to watch and try and follow by the end I did start to figure things out but it took most of the movie to get to that point. Through out the movie we find the Light and the Dark looking for the chosen one who will tilt the tide to one side or the other. At the beginning of the movie we find two armies fighting. the leader of the light comes to conclude that bother sides are equally matched. the sign a truce that the night would watch the day and the day would watch the night until a chosen one will chose a side and tilt the balance. At the end of the movie we find a young boy Yegor choosing the dark side. I believe he chooses the dark side pretty easily because he finds out the anton tries to kill him. I'm going to be upfront I did not really care for the movie. I am curious as to how the others movies will turn out, but this was a tough movie to follow.

Возвращение

Today's film was a real shocker for me! I really enjoyed the whole thing. The whole movie left you wondering what was going to happen next. I also liked that the movie takes after the 2 brothers. Early in the movie their father comes back into their lives unexpected. The father decides to take the two brothers Andrey and Ivan on a camping trip fishing. Ivan and Andrey decide to keep a diary of their trip so they will remember it, and I think this is where I enjoyed the movie. The movie goes through as if it were a diary day by day. I also found it interesting that it seemed Ivan Hated his father for leaving, but that Andrey seemed to idolize his father. We also find out early on the Ivan is afraid of heights. Their father takes them to an island, and shows them an old tower that shows the whole island. Through out the movie the father is vary mysterious and while on the island goes to an old house and digs up a chest. He then takes it to the boat and hides it. I can't help but wonder where he had been all those years and what was in the box that he had hidden in the boat. The whole movie left me wondering what happened? you never find out who the father was, or where or what he was doing all of the years he was gone. It was as if he felt he had to come back and show the boys tough love for a short time and leave again. I found the file vary enjoyable but also leaving me with many questions.

Брат

Today's film was a vary good, although it felt more like a documentary to me. I feel this way because of how the characters acted. I felt like they were more documenting what was going on than acting it out. Danila to me in a round about way is an Honorable man. Through out the movie he never goes back on his word. If he says I will let you live he lets you live. I think if the circumstances had been different he could be a good man living a decent life. Instead his brother gets him caught up in this ring and he ends up having to make decisions to help out his brother. Through out the movie he tells every one he was a clerk during the war. I find this hard to believe. Almost every thing he does seems more like he was in an elite group in the army. I get the feeling he is unhappy through out the movie. He has to tough decision but he never shows any emotion when he does have to kill. This was a movie that made it so you never wanted to look away. I hope every one enjoyed it!

Little Vera

Fridays film I have to say was one of the more interesting films we have seen in class so far. I am not sure how I feel about the film if I lean one way or the other on it. Vera was an interesting character in the film. She is a rebelling teen who falls in love with a man named Sergei. Sergei moved in with Vera family, but he does not care for the abusive father. Twords the end of the Film the father of Vera and Sergei get into a fight while the father is drunk, and the father ends up stabbing Sergei. By the reaction of the class I don't think any one was expecting it to happen. For me it was a tough movie to watch. I think the whole family had issues they had to work on from alcohol to anger. Im curious to see what every one else thinks of this film.

Москва слезам не верит

In the movie Москва слезам не верит (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears) we find a group of women wanting more. In this movie we learn much about Russian people. To be honest I kind of found that they are proud of their culture but in a way are more like the United States than they will ever admit. We find that this group of friends dream of living a better life of riches and becoming movie or TV stars. Two of these friends Katerina and Atonina go to take care of a dog for a long weekend for family and lying about there status and how they live to 2 men. I found that through out the film all these 2 women wanted was to live I guess what we would call the easy life. Unfortunately Katerina becomes Pregnant and the man she becomes involved with leaves her, and I found it interesting that even in the Russian society at the time that men are still that way. During the 2nd half of the movie Katerina meets a man on the metro and falls in love with him. I found it interesting that they both did not like dirty shoes but fell in love after only a few days. I really enjoyed this movie and am looking forward to the class discussion in the morning.

Иваново детство

In the movie Иваново детство (Ivan's Childhood) we find a young boy trying to be strong under extraordinary circumstances. At the vary beginning of the film we meet Ivan who is with his mother and running around playing as a child should. Soon after this his mother gets killed, and we find Ivan trying to make it through a swamp behind enemy lines. He is soon found and taken to if I am remembering correct a captain of the Russian Army. We soon find out the Ivan has become a spy. Because he is young he is able to get behind the German lines without getting noticed. Through out the rest of the film we find Ivan in some overwhelming circumstances. The men who are having him sneak behind the lines eventually want him to stop and go to a military school, Ivan does not like this idea and makes it vary well known. Ivan feels that he can do a better job at recon than he was doing and if they would not let him he would run away. What I wondered through the movie is what let him to becoming a spy? I may have missed this. We do also find his picture at the end of the movie in one of hitlers bunkers. I am not sure if he was also spying on the Russian's as well? This was a vary interesting movie, for me I still have mixed feelings about it. I hope to read some of the other class blogs and see how every one else felt about this film.

Зеркало

Today's movie Зеркало (The Mirror) for me was a tough movie to try and figure out and to watch. It was interesting but I don't think there really was a plot in the movie. At the beginning we meet a boy who is being examined by a Doctor. The Doctor is trying to make it so that the boy will not stutter. The way she is talking to the boy makes it sound like he is in a trance. I am not sure where this fits into the rest of the movie. Quickly after this seen we find a woman sitting on a fence watching a man walk by. This man comes up and starts to talk to her and introduces himself as a Doctor also. I am not sure if there is a tie between these two scenes or not? This movie also bounces back and fourth between postwar and war time. I have been trying to figure out this film for most of the day. I am hoping that the disscusstion in class will help clear it up.