I really enjoyed today's film, I hope every one else did as well! to be honest I did not really know what to expect through out the movie. Each time I thought I knew what was going to happen something different would happen, to me it made to movie much more enjoyable. For me it was not until about the last 15 to 20 minutes that I figured out what was going to happen.
At the beginning of Утомлённые солнцем we meet a character named Sergei, a highly commended Colneral in the russian army. Through out the movie we find out the he is a kind man who loves his family deeply and is loved by the people. Part way in to the movie we meet Mitya, a man who kind of dissapeard for 10 years. It turns out he is НКВД (NKVD). During the movie Mitya we think is this nice man, he plays with Sergei's daughter and teaches her piano and also how to dance. They seem to make him out to be this upstanding man who in turn hurts Sergei's whole family. This movie really makes you think about that time era. It makes you relize that you could not trust any one even the people in your own family. For me the ending was sad when they did take Sergei off in the black car. I am still not totally sure as to why they took Sergei to begin with. I may have just missed that in the movie it is hard to try and keep up reading so many subtitals.
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Keep in mind that there was generally no "good reason" for any of the victims of the Soviet Terror being taken away. At times it could almost seem as if you were being punished for doing too well--perhaps Kotov's charisma was viewed with suspicion and trepidation from certain party members (or even Stalin himself)? The charges would then generally be trumped up to ridiculous levels (spying for the German or Japanes, conspiring to pull down the Soviet government, etc.) and they would be pulled out by "confessions" that were done under extreme duress after hours and hours of torture.
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