One thing that I found interesting was the mockery of the United States of America. This film would have been an eye opener for citizens of the U.S. for it stated that they are supposedly the free country of the world yet they continue to allow segregation. It was clearly bragging because Russia is a very diverse country and it continues to accept people no matter what their skin color was.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Circus
Alexandrov's Circus was a very unique film. It wasn't exactly a thrilling fun movie for the first half. In fact, there wasn't anything that caught my attention until the main circus event scenes (the cannon ones). I enjoyed these scenes because I got the feeling I was sitting in a circus tent watching the performance. I give Alexandrov credit for this, however I was not impressed by the love story (because it was far too predictable).
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Perhaps the Americans who saw this film at the time of its release had mixed opinions about the shot our country took in the category of racial acceptance. Personally, I took it as almost a joke and found it quite funny. I could also understand if others found it offensive and got upset. Perhaps yet other viewers saw it as a need to improve upon the situation at the time in order to compete with the Soviets.
ReplyDeleteThough keep in mind that this is a movie almost nobody in America would have known about at the time. It would have almost certainly had circulation within the Soviet Union back then...and it has been "discovered" here in the West only relatively recently (in the last twenty-thirty years or so).
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