Inside of watching this movie, my boyfriend and I went to Goldstream Park to explore. We discovered a world of moss covered trees, snow & cedar paths, and rocky trickling streams. I found the smallest pinecones I'd ever seen. We found the biggest fallen tree I'd ever seen. The forest was silent and still and beautiful. I mentioned to my boyfriend's father that I wasn't sure how I would relate all these great things to Russian film. "That's easy," he said. "It's all about realism." Yes, I thought. I suppose it is.
If you are interested in 7 Up, here is some of the 21 Up film. {Thanks to my classmate Glen, for finding that!}
I was fascinated with 7 up in the Soviet Union. Thanks to "Glen" for finding a link for me to watch 21 up! Seeing how life goes for the kids you have "met" - now that's reality TV. It was actually done for TV, I believe. One line in 21 up really hit me. "Democracy is a fight with no rules". Now of course there is the common confusion of political and economic systems at play here...but substitute Capitalism for Democracy and it makes more sense. "Democracy" Glasnost style brought corrupt and unbridled capitalism to the USSR, leaving some who had been raised with the cradle-to-grave safety net (even if a bit tattered) of the State, in major culture shock. The same young man says "War is a sort of business"...and "ordinary people just go out and die". Hello, Haliburton.
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