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To: SeekAndFind

To me, “Zhivago”, David Lean’s masterpiece, is the greatest film ever made. I can call forth a line from that film to parallel everything we’ve been experiencing in America these past 40 years or so.

The writer of the present article invokes a scene: the suddenness of the switch from a pseudo-European, gentrified Moscow to a hellish, ideology-driven nightmare left Zhivago nonplussed as he entered what used to be the family townhouse.

Tonya: “This is comrade Yelkin, our local delegate”
Z: “Welcome”
Tonya: “and this is comrade Kaprogina, chairman of the residence committee.”
Z: “Welcome”
Comrade K: “It is not for you to welcome us, comrade”. There was room for 13 families, IN THIS ONE HOUSE!”
Z: “Yes, comrade; this is a better situation — more just”

Anyway, it does my heart good to have a writer use the film as a metaphor like this.


21 posted on 08/25/2023 8:56:52 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Migraine

One of my favorite scenes as well. It was perfect to show the smug, self-righteous nastiness of the petty communist bureaucrat given their bit of power to make people miserable (probably people they had always been jealous of).

I can imagine all the lefty Karens of 2020 through the present taking those jobs.


27 posted on 08/25/2023 9:48:36 AM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendment nullification or secession??? )
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