Starik
is this guy a pedophile or just a loving uncle? I honestly can't tell.
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Yeah that whole camera scene was giving me the creeps. And he was kinda pissed when that messenger knocked on his door.
Of course I'm gonna TELL you the right thing to DO.... I'M A HYPOCRITE!!!!
Pedo. I think he's a caricature of Lavrentiy Beria. Now...you can't believe everything on wiki, right? Apparently, he was a pedo and one of his hobbies was...well...ya'll can check the profile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrenty_Beria
Though Beria had fallen out of power by the time most of the series takes place.
ambiguity is great when it comes to somethings that need to be understated, but I would assume that if they wanted to imply that guy is a pedo the can sure as hell do a better job at it. Is it poor writing or shoddy direction that led to this ambiguity? who knows but the actor does do his best to go along with it.
sharePedo. Or, at least, he's one in the book.
shareI'm inclined to go with the former. It reminds me of a line from the British mini-series about Lily Langtree which went something like - "Did you ever notice that each year his lordship comes here on vacation he has a different set of nieces who get younger as he gets older." A great series, although a bit dated now: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077042/
shareLewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland which plays a part in the story, took hundreds of photographs of little girls (including the real Alice), some of them in various states of undress. Didn't know about Beria's inclinations, so I figured this was the possible connection.
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That's interesting, as Starik is the one who came up with the Alice in Wonderland code stuff.
Who is Beria?
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Beria was the chief of the secret police NKVD under Stalin and one of the most feared and loathed persons in the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrenty_Beria