Amazing! She gave birth to twins ALONE in the wilderness and she (and the twins) all lived? The movie gives the impression that she continued to live out there alone after the men left but maybe it would be more credible to believe that she went to get help with the birthing.
shareC'mon! This was something of a "fairytale", and it's not like it's impossible to gove birth alone.
And, as for going to get help;
1) Anni/ Cuckoo was an independent woman
2) Walking somewhere to get help while pregnant?
Women have been giving birth outside hospitals for thousands of years and continue to do it in many parts of the world today. Anni was probably a bit tougher than today's Finnish/Russian/Sami/American women.
Did you hear about the woman in Africa a couple of years ago - she was fleeing a flood by sitting up a tree and gave birth to a baby.
Is childbirth, even when it comes to something like twins, THAT hard, ya'll? O_O
shareI think she probably drummed up her old dead granny to help her - that's what I would have done! And the children seemed to be very well dressed!
shareYeah. I'm not totally sure of where she would've gotten such nice-looking cloth, but hey, maybe Anni didn't live so far away from a town, as everybody around here seems to think. If Anni was a young Saami woman living somewhere on the Kola Penninsula, then Archangel would've probably been the nearest city.
sharekeep in mind there were uniforms of the two dead russian jeep drivers and the two women aviators to possibly source fabric from. heck, the jeep appeared merely upsided, and the gas tank of the biplane did not burn, so who knows, she could have righted the jeep, put gas in it and drove to town! just speculating with available threads.
i wonder what other possible directions the director considered taking the plot, the film seems intentionally shorter that it might could have been. i was sad the aviators did not survive. a lot of build up there just to deliver a gun with bullets and some scraps of paper. oh well
regardless, what a wonderful film, one that opens the planet's citizens' eyes to a special unique place and people. truly bioregional, especially the courage to respectfully represent indigenous lore of drawing someone away from death, not the least new age as some detracting critics have labelled it.
i enjoy all of the ideas and critique the film inspires, how it makes folks think, this shows the greatness of this piece.
from oklahoma~