Goncharov 50th gonchiversary bash !!!!!! 50 years with the greatest mafia movie ever made, crazy how fast time goes.
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completely platonic cigarette lighting with the worstie while u nurse a broken rib
🚬 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🚬
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andrey by alexandr fedotov
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Ok, I know we don't like to talk about it because of the scene context, BUT that scene with Andrey and Goncharov in the art museum where Goncharov tells Andrey "In the Bible Judas kisses Jesus on the mouth as an act of betrayal yet most artist portray it as a kiss on the cheek, I wonder why that is" and Andrey replies with clear confusion "I don't recall reading this in the Bible" and Goncharov goes "No no, I'm pretty sure it happened" and then later during Andrey's betrayal scene, Goncharov tells him "Are you portraying this kiss or are you a coward?" as a way of saying "I understood you were gonna do this long ago, but I can no longer run from my destiny, I can no longer run from time" and then Andrey kisses him right before shooting him in the heart it's just so good and it's even better when you know that mobs and people in the mafia in general kiss others on the mouth as an oath to be loyal to them till the very end and it's so good this movie makes me wanna eat glass I swear to god help me I'm obsessed
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Okay but are we ready to talk about the malleability of identity in Goncharov, particularly the way Andre(i/y)'s name is spelled?
We see it spelled both ways in the film, with a y in Katya's letter to him and and i on his (presumably real) passport. The passport is official and might be "correct," but is it true? What's more vital, words issued by the government or by a (would-be) lover? Is it like a pet-name to him? Then there's the Westernization aspect--hiding his Soviet background, conforming by changing the i to a y. (I mean as soon as he speaks you hear the accent, so--on paper he can be someone else, but he can't fully escape his reality. )
Praying for someone to uncover a scene where Goncharov himself writes Andrey's name and then I will go TRULY feral-academic with whatever spelling he uses.
Also I know there's an anti-theory out there that it's just a mistake (LOOKING AT YOU, CINEMASINS), but come on. Guys as careful as Scorsese don't make mistakes. Even the credits have different spellings, depending on which edition of the film you're watching. The man knows what he is doing, okay?
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Something I haven’t seen mentioned too much in Goncharov analysis, but is maybe my favorite minor detail in the movie -
So like 10 minutes in, right after the first icy bedroom scene with Katya, there’s this little scene, maybe 90 seconds in all, where Goncharov is passing a port, and he stops on the dock for a cigarette, and the camera follows his eyeline out to this seabird perched on the last of the ice as the bay thaws out, and it follows it as it takes off over the sea. I’ve seen one or two little things referencing it as Goncharov picturing an escape from the web of violence he’s become enmeshed in, and that’s fair, but it’s also only half the story.
The bird, you ever notice it looks sort of... out of place? Big heavy feathers, sharp beak, doesn’t really look like any of the other city birds you see int he rest of the film. That’s because it’s a Steller’s Sea Eagle, a bird not native to Italy at all. Their habitat is almost exclusively the North-Eastern Russian coast (and a little bit of Korea), about as deep into Siberia as you can get. Siberia, where Goncharov would have been posted at only 16 had his uncle not used his position in the Russian mob to pull some strings, ultimately changing the course of his life before he even really understood what he’d agreed to.
So in this scene, which is barely even long enough to mention, we see that even in Goncharov’s moments of escape, his mind is drawn back to the moment that shackled him to the life he now finds himself in. Even in his fantasies, he cannot envision a way this all ends differently.
And doesn’t that make the last dream sequence with Andrey as Goncharov is bleeding out hit all the harder? After a lifetime of singleminded obedience, he’s finally pictured a different world - too late.
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as a person whos interested in folklore and mythology, seeing goncharov develop into what it is has been weirdly fascinating. like this is folklore happening in real time and speed up 130% bc of the internet
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Ppl are recommending Goncharov based off of the plot and subtextual lesbians or whatever, but I’m gonna plug it specifically on the basis of it having the most balls-to-the-walls indulgent train fight scene I’ve ever seen in a film. Like Goncharov didn’t have 2 be good it just had to show us that gratuitous closeup of Katya pushing Andrey up against a dining car table
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