I think you also underestimate the resilience of the West, our capacity to live up to our values.
Regardless as is true anywhere but especially after something as traumatic as the Soviet Union: Russia needs genuine spiritual revival. I am not talking about the external trappings of Orthodoxy and lip service to political incorrectness.
Here is Russia’s entry this year into the foreign language category for the Golden Globes. Almost 100 countries made submissions and Russia’s made it to the shortlist!
“Loveless” directed Andrey Zvyagintsev
In Loveless, a Broken Family and a Lost Nation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/movies/loveless-review-andrey-zvyagintsev.html
“” “” “” Regardless as is true anywhere but especially after something as traumatic as the Soviet Union: Russia needs genuine spiritual revival. I am not talking about the external trappings of Orthodoxy and lip service to political incorrectness.
Here is Russia’s entry this year into the foreign language category for the Golden Globes. Almost 100 countries made submissions and Russia’s made it to the shortlist!
“Loveless” directed Andrey Zvyagintsev””” “”
That is what ‘oppressive tyranny’ like Russia does. /s
I mean exposing her ills putting it into an art form to submit for international awards entry.
Isn’t it a start in a right direction following your own logic?
As for a movie itself the problem it is telling about is not new and you can’t blame it on a ‘regime’.
Russian family is screwed up to some degree I agree but the problem is the combination of WWII and decades of socialism which did to it practically the same that the Democrats did to a black family since the Great Society.
The important point is it changes. In earlier 2000s there were up to 90 divorces per 100 marriages in Russia and now about 50.
Single motherhood is in a similar decline as well.
No, the West has a great capacity to live up to Western "Values".
Let's use your criteria to examine this, first up, Motion Pictures.
As you point out, Russia gets favorable notice in the Western decadent, highly corrupt, self congratulatory, morally and ethically lacking Golden Globs, a Politically Uber Correct exercise similar to the Academy Awarts, Because Zvyagintsev produces a fiction denigrating "average" Russian Society, (It will be a couple of years before Zvyagintsev will be required to make the boy a prepubescent transsexual to get a nomination, so it's good he got it now).
And The New York Times, the Bastion of American Truth in News and that which is Wholesome?
This is the criteria you cite right after accusing Russia of "external trappings of Orthodoxy and lip service to political incorrectness"?
"Loveless" is a FICTIONAL Motion Picture that complies with the FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA narrative to denigrate Russia, Conservatives and people struggling to live a wholesome life that is pushed by the New York Slime and was "Reviewed" there for that purpose.
You're gonna have to do much better.