The Great Water

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02/03/2013 Interesting premise that mixed together Stalinism with all its brutality, Christianity that despite its oppression eventually prevails in additional of some strange character, looking like an angel, in the midst of the cruel reality of "reeducation" camp for children of the 'people's enemies.' Still, the movie is pretty confusing and even though I tried very hard to like it, I could not because of that. See more 03/22/2009 Beautiful. Beautiful. See more 12/25/2008 This is a film that is guaranteed to absolutely mystify 99.9% of viewers of a non-Eastern European (communist) back-ground. I could be mistaken in my own understanding of this film, but having read much literature by Solzhenitsyn in recent years, I saw in this film a magnificent allegory of the spiritual condition of communist eastern Europe generally. Every scene in a supposed "orphanage" signifying the dramatic "re-education" of the masses ensuring the absolutes of communist ideology were sacrosanct to the state. The perverse morphing of the Cult of Stalin (Tito) with the mythology of the Great Patriotic War (WW2 for the rest of us), symbolized by a disgusting sex scene between a disfigured Red Army (or Partisan) veteran and a teenage girl of the "Stalin (Tito) Youth", was very off-putting, but it was not to be taken at face value- it was a symbolic union. The mysterious presence of a beautiful woman with a bible and the "voyeurism" of the two young boys of the orphanage that challenge the communist orthodoxies taught in the orphanage with their orthodox spirituality appears to symbolize the undercurrent of the free thinking minority that sought to reclaim their nation's hitherto cut off spiritual heritage. A very pregnant film this was indeed. See more 12/03/2008 good and interesting. there's a war between religion and communism. See more 09/05/2008 very interesting and poignant film - an insight into communist yugoslavia, filmed entirely on location in macedonia, and two extraordinary young characters. See more 05/02/2008 really great watch. i love seeing the world from the perspectve of teenagers, esp when told by them when they are adults. everything is washed through their memories, no one knoes what is true, what isn't... it's hard not to get involved in the story and get mesmerized.... See more Read all reviews

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