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Maybe it does in some or other ways, but in others, not as 100% as some make it out to be.
Notorious well known and also much criticized for his "music" Bulgarian-born Russian male pop superstar Philip Kirkorov even had a SONG "Alenkiy Tsvetochek", and it was one of the most earliest songs of his career, released in 1990, and obviously inspired by this fairy-tale and possibly this Russian animated movie.
Well, yeah, that too. :)
It looks more IMPLIED than "fake", and besides, though GOD FORBID, I will never be THAT up close and well known personally in this matter in order to judge and conclude if on film it ever LOOKS "real", if you get my meaning, then again, neither would I want to with murder either, though first matter in more ways especially so. And for understandable modern and otherwise socially sensitive and highly emotional reasons to boot.
In today's day and age, it is also apparently known as "MK Ultra".
P.S. On a side note, its interesting how only once in the whole movie, and by Mr Alexander and in this scene to boot, was the word "rape" even used, throughout the whole movie, it is mostly referred to or alluded to as either "the old in out" (although it also refers to instances of consensual sexual activity in this film too, which we do see as well), "old ultraviolence" (but then, does "ultraviolence" only or even MOSTLY refer to sexual violence in this film or violence, physical, in general, that we ALSO do see) and "sex and violence" etc, and I wonder if this was in any way intentional or incidental? And yeah, its all understood of course, but possible to debate without fury OR controversy too much, like other forms of violence, perhaps?
Sorry, I also meant to say, with English and other FOREIGN subtitles.
Me too.
And that scene also had a surreal and darkly humorous vibe to it, I bet loads of filmmakers later like David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Harmony Korine etc etc got some inspiration from it, as well as this film in general.
I thought too but I wonder what they were, and also, when those elderly folks were beating him up they took it away from him, but does he ever get it back?
In my view and that's mostly me, you absolutely do not have to mate.
"that such a domineering young man of Alex's nature could come from the loins of such a meek and milk toast father."
People can turn monstrously criminal for a variety of reasons personal and sometimes objective and societal, its not all about parenthood.
I thought that was just done because while he was in prison they needed either company or more money so they rented the room out. They also didn't know or expect that Alex would be released so rather soon.
This was done in a way already before that...
But what did you think of all those other points I've mentioned (i.e. parents being unable to stand up to Joe speaking so ill of their, even if criminally responsible, son, not offering him further shelter (would they be able to afford it?), the lodger "mysteriously" knowing about "many horrible things" Alex did even though he was only charged with one crime and the overall message and meaning of that scene?)
Cheers.
And there is apparently MORE to this topic in the OVERALL picture than whether or not you feel "sad" (however relatively!) or you think they are getting "just desserts" by receiving death penalty even if you fully know that they are 100% GUILTY.
On the latter point about disagreeing with victims' vengeance and also not being on the side of death penalty, I actually got this information from an excerpt in a Russian 1992 show "Theme" ("Tema") that was about death penalty in Russia, and it was the late Galina Starovoitova who said that "we shouldn't ask victims here for permission, they are unable to be fully objective, with all respect to their loss and suffering" when it comes to executing the culprit topic.
Both its presenter Vladislav Listiev and Galina Starovoitova were murdered in the 90s, the former one shot dead on the evening of March the 1st in 1995, the later female was killed in 1998. Both seem to be gang assassinations, hired killing, the first one in particular at the time has shocked the nation.
And sometimes, it does happen subtly, plenty of people with criminal pasts for instance may or may not keep anonymity one way or another and certain systems do assist with it.
I just wondered if the boss say would've replied in a way less snarky or snappy with "mind your own business" (many or some people to an extent however small consider such replies either rude or off-putting) it would not have raised Mary Anne's curiosity in order to research his past like that and then reveal it at work.
Besides, the boss at least in his own way DID protect Walter and wasn't on the side of those folks picking on him at work when they found out. And those people at the company did not, openly or subtly, in any way "reprimand" him for it, so much for "protecting a criminal (any or the most severe or otherwise kind" being "frowned upon universally" like that.
Is it ONLY THE "LEFT" that does it, ALSO...
Does it not depend on what kind of person it is and/or - for instance, what they've done, and is it not true for instance that in some aspects, killing someone IS the only way to eliminate their threat etc?
Or are they just being wrong for the sake of wrong or rather - for very selfish reasons without properly (and successfully) thinking it through?
P.S. What are the left ANYWAYS compared to the right, and I assume you mean "left wing"/right wing type of stuff? And do you STRONGLY disagree with them, agree or NEITHER, yes OP Blade 13?
P.S.S. In some ways it IS a solution, albeit, often an EXTREME, SEVERE and highly OVER THE TOP one.
Also, would you say its better or worse or even DIFFERENT, with different KINDS of criminals, and with something like a "child molester" being in an especially HIG category one as such?
But in this movie and in that instance, we were apparently meant to think that the boss was right and in what ways is protecting a former criminal really wrong and frowned upon by whom?
What I really meant to say was - could the boss have acted differently with Mary Kay as opposed to angrily or otherwise tell her to "mind own business" in the name of handling the situation well, or maybe state "Sorry, confidentiality, can't comply" or something?
And some bosses ARE respectable. TV Tropes web site in this case also however claimed that he was acting as a "reasonable authority".