Originally Posted by
Jean
Woofer: there's a C/Orange thread somewhere, and I long ago promised to post there; I will with time. I have no problem with cruelty in movies, but I have big problems with ideology and hypocrisy, and the satire of that movie seemed to me exactly the direct flipside of (thus, essentially the same as) what they were trying to criticize, ridicule, expose, whatever. (Their Russian is absurd, of course; in such cases it can always be said that it was done on purpose, not out of ignorance - youth slang, what do you want)