[InvisibleChurch]

What’s the cinematic point of showing the mother in the coffin as she is having dirt put on her?

[ReformationFan]

Good question. I’m not sure though. Perhaps to emphasize Yuri the boy being all alone in the world now that his mother is gone? Although he does have the Gromekos.

[HomeAtLast]

What’s the cinematic point of showing the mother in the coffin as she is having dirt put on her?

It's Yuri Zhivago's perspective of what's going on. He's a little boy as it is happening, all he knows is that his mother is in a box and going into the ground.

[OKSooner]

I don't know but I think it might have something to do with his sinful attraction to Lara? Like she reminded him of his mom or something? (Was it Julie Christie, or a likeness of her, lying in the coffin?)

(Looking like I'm pondering deeply and trying to look Freudian as a type this...)