1. Why didn't Pasha tell Sergei about his family when he got back from fishing? Why not just hand him the note and say "i'm sorry. Please read this and call the station." I just do not understand.
2. Pasha stole some fish then got sick and cursed Sergei. Why? He just didn't like the taste?
3. Why did Sergei stay on the station? Because he knew he was dying from poison fish...or because his life was over without his family?
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1. Why didn't Pasha tell Sergei about his family when he got back from fishing? Why not just hand him the note and say "i'm sorry. Please read this and call the station." I just do not understand.He is somewhat afraid of Sergei, and he is, not unreasonably, afraid of his reaction to the news. After the note blows away, and Pasha does not tell him, it becomes increasingly hard to do so because he should've told him immediately.
2. Pasha stole some fish then got sick and cursed Sergei. Why? He just didn't like the taste?The fish is full of small bones and he wolfs it down. He gets bones stuck in his throat.
3. Why did Sergei stay on the station? Because he knew he was dying from poison fish...or because his life was over without his family?The fish was not poison, and it would not have hurt him unless it had become radioactive. This is unlikely since Sergei does not treat Pasha as if Pasha had just fatally poisoned him. I think his throwing up was just an instinctive reaction or a precaution. Radiation is increasingly used to preserve food. For easy markup in Firefox & Opera, see http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42255 share
thank you, and it all makes sense what you wrote. Now that I think about it and read a lot of comments about this film, I understand that Pasha was indeed afraid of telling Sergei about the family, and then he grew increasingly afraid and even paranoid
shareBy the time Pavel received the message about Sergey's family, the abuse Sergey had committed against Pavel had increased to a level that Pavel was unsure how Sergey would react. Would Sergey go off the deep end and would the abuse escalate to a dangerous level? Eventually Sergey did fire a loaded gun at Pavel two different times, so yes Pavel did have reason to be concerned about Sergey becoming completely unhinged.
shareIn regards to your first question, I don't necessarily think it's a case of Pavel being just scared of Sergei's response to the bad news. My feeling is that Pavel is a sandwich or 2 short of a complete picnic basket himself and at times demonstrated he was partial to some of the treatment that Sergei dealt him, plus enjoyed learning stuff from the older guy (about fishing etc.) I don't really think he wanted him to leave and that's why he's so reluctant to pass on the news.
shareThis film was made with a great attention to detail. There are no plot holes. To answer the first question, when Pasha was receiving the transmission about Sergei's family, the radio operator told him something along the lines "just give him the transmission, don't say anything, and leave him alone". It was said with such intonation that IMHO the radio dispatcher himself wasn't sure if Sergei could handle himself adequately in such a situation. Pasha, a city guy who never truly understand the seriousness with which he should take the life on the desolate station, *beep* his pants and didn't say anything at first, and the longer he avoided telling, the scarier he got as other events unraveled. Sergei got mad at him for not taking the measurements correctly and then proceeded to tell Pasha that one guy was shot dead in the nearby house for "cheating" on the work. Pasha went there immediately and saw a bullet hole in the ceiling so it was true. So in Pasha's mind, this was almost like a warning "people got here killed for cheating work". Now imagine what happens to people who don't deliver radio transmission.
2. Pasha got sick because he was eating so fast that he swallowed the wish bone. That's of course really dangerous situation. He cursed Sergei because he decided to place the blame for everything on Sergei, for being cold and hungry, for being exposed to radiation, and for almost dying out there chocking on a fish bone. You also need to allow the possibility, that Pasha would not always act adequately under stress. But it wasn't really in his nature. In the end, he realized that he has done bad and returned to the station.
3. It's pretty obvious that Sergei decided to stay on the station because he had nothing left on the "continent". He didn't care if he was going to live or die from poisoning.
. Pasha stole some fish then got sick and cursed Sergei. Why? He just didn't like the taste?