Moscow doesn't need tears

Spencer 2022-03-22 09:02:44

Yesterday, I watched the classic Soviet film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears". It seems that the first time I watched this film completely was in the audio-visual course in the second half of my freshman year, about 2007. It has been 14 years since I first watched it. . If it's just the title of the movie or some of the classic scenes in it, you've known it from the first day of learning Russian. Russia has always had a tradition, guessed to be handed down from the former Soviet Union, that is, in the first few days of the New Year (January 1), TV stations will broadcast old Soviet movies on a loop. In 2009, the New Year's holiday was boring in Kursk, and it was in this movie, such as "A Taunt of Fate", "A Station for Two", "Autumn Marathon"... For my foreign language at that time In terms of level, especially in terms of life experience, it is already stretched to keep up with the plot. All impressions of these films are the sense of atmosphere and ignorant sense of humor. Zhang Ailing wrote in Lust and Caution that the way to a woman's heart is through the vagina. Language, then, is the gateway to the heart and culture of a country. If English is passed to my ears, I will try my best to get the content, but Russian first enters my heart, there will be a kind of spiritual trembling. If my brainwaves were scanned at this point, there should be some peculiar changes in certain areas. However, is this change due to my love for Russian language, Russia, Russian literature and art, or is it the spiritual experience of ten years of struggle, denial, effort, joy, and peace that has merged into the blood? I can't answer this question, just like I can't step into two rivers at the same time, I can't assume my life.

After you have basically passed the level of mastery of Russian, and then watch this movie, you can analyze and speculate the plot wholeheartedly. The story of three foreign girls from factories "chasing their dreams" in the metropolis of Moscow. Like the people around us, like ourselves. Different from the cool articles in Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai's various women's illustrations, a two-hour movie shows the three girls' first half of their lives in a three-dimensional, multi-faceted and profound way, worthy of winning the 1979 Oscar for best. Foreign Language Film Awards. Tosia honestly found a young man with ordinary duties in Moscow, gave birth to three children, and went to a small house on the outskirts of Moscow to grow tomatoes and pickled cabbage on weekends. It was simple, trivial and warm. Lyudmila is the kind of girl who comes to Moscow to gamble on her life. She looks cute and flirtatious. She is a so-called "good man" in the subway, the Lenin library, and various social occasions. When she is forty years old, she is alone. The exclaimed, why is this kind of woman always standing beside the general (not outstanding in appearance, bloated, fat, vulgar, boring.) And Tosia replied gently, dear, you have to accompany this person to the desert , Frontier, it takes twenty years to become a general's wife, you need to grow up with a man. Ekaterina also made the mistake of vanity and dizziness. She became a single mother raising her daughter alone, and finally became the leader of the factory with her own efforts and perseverance, a woman who is independent in thought, life and material. In the few years when they first entered the society, these three girls could see their own shadows, and they also wanted to live an ordinary life willingly, to get something for nothing, and to fight back by themselves... At that time, these few The problems faced by girls are also problems that I cannot solve. I feel that it is bound to be a tragedy for women from other places to work hard in big cities.

Later, with the growth of experience, especially in the past two or three years, I became more and more aware that many things and many scenes must be trusted to determine the fate of a person's life. The family I was born into practiced half the sky for women, and even practiced most of the sky in practice. Only after being honed in society did I gradually realize that women are very weak, difficult and unfair in many parts of the society. He also gradually realized that among the three girls, Tosia, who was mediocre in both appearance and mind, was actually a first-class woman who won by lying down. A stable family, a car, a house and a villa, a reliable husband, respected by her in-laws, and a few good friends, the most important thing is a peaceful mind without big desires and ambitions. In the second half of the strange film, the other two heroines expressed their heartfelt admiration for it. I was not reconciled a few years ago, but now I agree with it very much. I have to admit that for most of us ordinary people, "silly women" is the best way to survive. Ekaterina in the play is a typical second-class woman's life, which is much better than the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth. It is also the upper limit of our struggle for women who are not chosen by God. I can't help but sigh, every time Every rising strong woman starts by leaving unreliable scumbags...

I came across this film by chance yesterday, and I couldn't help but watch it again, but I found something new. Although the time is changing, the situation of the three of them is changing, and the social class later can be said to be worlds apart, but the friendship between them has not changed. Going to pick up Ekaterina, who gave birth to a daughter alone, going to Tosia's wedding together, Lyudmila was asked by Ekaterina to find Rudolf's mother to take her place, and later Ekaterina became a grandfather. The leader can still cry with his best friend in the kitchen to chop Chinese cabbage, and three women in their forties after Gosha disappeared, which is very touching. In fact, many situations in life cannot be chosen, which is very helpless; however, there are also many emotional connections between people that we can cherish and grasp. As he went to pursue it hard, Qi Qi sighed, it is better to get along well with the people around him who are available at the moment.

The so-called classics are basically cabbage, and you need to poke them away layer by layer. What we see in the classics is just our own reflection.

Yesterday, I saw an article by Mr. Mu Xin on Lao Tzu. He said that the reason why the Tao Te Ching was so vague was intentional. He didn’t want or disdain everyone’s understanding. Waiting for your soulmates and fellow travelers. In the same sentence, when watching movies, books, and paintings with aesthetic value, you must first watch the classics, which are particularly easy to distinguish. Books are sold in the discount area, and videos are in the free area. Really ironic. An extremely boring and brain-damaged drama, because opening VIP for 15 minutes more has caused controversy on the Internet, really, it is better to wash and go to sleep. I remember clearly that the high school Chinese teacher shared his reading experience, and never read books written by living people. I have also experienced that these old movies and novels are outdated, overestimated and overestimated, and now I gradually find that I am low, and my accumulation, knowledge, aesthetics, and experience are not up to the mark. Now I often feel that these masters are hiding behind their own works, covering their mouths and laughing at my shallowness, ignorance and arrogance.

By the way, there are also two classic scenes in it. The first one is that the deputy director in his fifties went to the dinner table and said, at the age of forty, life has just begun. In the second half of the film, Ekaterina Suffice it to say. The second, after Guosha and Ekaterina reunited, the heroine asked the hero why she had to wait so long, and the hero said it was eight days (the cold war for eight days); the heroine shook her head and repeated Why did she wait so long for this question.

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  • Adrian 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    In many literary and artistic works, you will read the sentence that Moscow does not believe in tears, and I have heard this business card for a long time. But I've never been interested in watching it. Thanks for the appointment of cctv 6 best films, let me calm down and watch it again. Sure enough, the Oscars. Three different women, different choices in life created three different outcomes. There is no good or bad, no right or wrong, this is real life. Real, touching and inspiring. Life starts at the age of 40.

  • Cheyenne 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    1981 The 53rd OSCAR BEST FORIEGN PICTURE, drag and drop.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears quotes

  • Lyudmila Gurina: Don't cry.

    Lyudmila Gurina: You know what Moscow thinks of tears.

    Lyudmila Gurina: We shouldn't be sitting around, we should do something.