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icepixieOof. We just got done watching The Irony of Fate, or: Enjoy Your Bath!, which is apparently a hugely popular romantic comedy that is shown every New Year's Eve in Russia. Despite what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepingcbw may try to tell you, it is in fact exactly like a Nora Ephron movie, except Russian. So you have a cute, destined-to-be-together couple who don't like each other much at first, then they realize they actually do like each other, and unceremoniously (that word was used a lot in the subtitles) dump the fiances who are standing in the way so they can be together. And you also have them singing songs about how, if you have no house, no one can burn it down. If you don't have a dog, no one can poison it. If you don't have a wife, she can't leave you. If you don't have friends, they can't beat you up.
The fact that this was a popular song in Russia before they used it in the movie speaks volumes, I think, about the Russian attitude toward life.
And of course, it can't be Russian without more than half the characters being drunk more than half the time, so I think roughly five or six bottles of alcohol, mostly vodka, were consumed between...six people? Maybe less?
Another difference between this and [insert Nora Ephron movie here] is the length. Three hours, this was. We were all kind of zombieish by the end. So were the characters, actually, since they'd been up all night ringing doorbells and getting drunk and singing depressing songs. (There was another about a guy who asked various inanimate objects where his wife had gone and got no answer, until he asked...uh...I don't remember...it may have been another guy...anyway, the response was essentially, "She's my wife now. Sucks to be you!")
You know, I think the message behind a lot of Russian songs and literature can be boiled down to "sucks to be you."
And with that, I'm going to bed.
sleepingcbw may try to tell you, it is in fact exactly like a Nora Ephron movie, except Russian. So you have a cute, destined-to-be-together couple who don't like each other much at first, then they realize they actually do like each other, and unceremoniously (that word was used a lot in the subtitles) dump the fiances who are standing in the way so they can be together. And you also have them singing songs about how, if you have no house, no one can burn it down. If you don't have a dog, no one can poison it. If you don't have a wife, she can't leave you. If you don't have friends, they can't beat you up.The fact that this was a popular song in Russia before they used it in the movie speaks volumes, I think, about the Russian attitude toward life.
And of course, it can't be Russian without more than half the characters being drunk more than half the time, so I think roughly five or six bottles of alcohol, mostly vodka, were consumed between...six people? Maybe less?
Another difference between this and [insert Nora Ephron movie here] is the length. Three hours, this was. We were all kind of zombieish by the end. So were the characters, actually, since they'd been up all night ringing doorbells and getting drunk and singing depressing songs. (There was another about a guy who asked various inanimate objects where his wife had gone and got no answer, until he asked...uh...I don't remember...it may have been another guy...anyway, the response was essentially, "She's my wife now. Sucks to be you!")
You know, I think the message behind a lot of Russian songs and literature can be boiled down to "sucks to be you."
And with that, I'm going to bed.
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Date: 2005-12-25 10:39 pm (UTC)