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Reference to Dostoyevsky

posted 13 years ago by italiancaliforniadude
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I was just wondering if anybody could share some insight into the reference to Dostoyevsky at the beginning of the movie. It occurs when the youngest daughter ends a discussion with her associates "boyfriend." I am under the presumption that there are a great many parallels to the characters in this film to some of the main characters in Dostoyevsky's novels. I am just an engineer though so I do not have much background in this subject.

Any thoughts?

I did find this:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/columnist/2007-12/03/content_6294765.htm

[–] TopFrog 11 years ago

I don't think any parallel to Dostoyevsky was intended, but I suppose if one was so inclined one could see the daughters as embodiments of the physical, the intellectual, and the spiritual, in a parallel to the way that the Karamazov boys represent these qualities in The Brothers Karamazov.

[–] AtoZ2014 11 years ago

I don't know, but I imagine it was "intentional," or it wouldn't be in this film. ItalianCA's guess makes sense to me!