Tuesday, March 24, 2009
russian mentality
it’s no wonder, america is such a happy country compared to russia. first of all, the antidepressants - russia does not have the drugs available. but it does not matter – find me a russian who is willing to consume the pill. popular russian opinion of these medication is that they cause brain malfunction. who needs that when you can have the bottle! everything is set to prepare a russian child to a great deal of life disappointments ahead starting with the moment a kid is born. take a look at the children stories. poor cats are forced to the street when their house is set on fire, and no one is offering a shelter. the spider’s torture of a fly is described in a great details as well as his final beheading by the mosquito. the wolf undergoes a special voice alteration operation, so he can sound like the mama-goat, the baby-goats open the door and get eaten. the compassionate bunny welcomes a fox to his house who threatens him, and makes him to leave. but all of this can be topped off by the cartoon about a penguin who gets drowned protecting his egg, that someone replaces with a stone. i just love these children stories, do you?
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I was just talking to someone how I can only watch 1 russian movie in a given period of time...I have to space it out with American films because Russian movies (even some of the 'comedies') have this totally black depression thing going. It's not just sadness...a lot of American movies have that...its this utter hopeless depression that is really characteristic of movies coming out of that country.
As far as the children's stories, I think a lot of those aren't 'russian' but are old folk tales adapted to a culture. But I agree...there is some dark stuff out there for children. I used to have nightmares about what I got read from Brothers Grimm. But yeah, even the 'cute' little fairy tales are kind of insane. But honestly, I kind of prefer a little bit of darkness than the super pc, sanitized morality tales that pass for stories.
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