![]() ![]() ![]() It DID make me want to read the book but I think the film a work that stands up well on its own. The editing cuts between his direct contributions to video diary, historical narrative and his flights of fancy at various points. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. In a momentary spell of remorse, he searches for her in the rain-soaked streets and looking back on this act in his video diary asks: "Why did I look for her? If I had found her, I would just have got back with her and tormented her again" The acting is excellent, the photography tight and claustrophobic, which suits the protagonists tiny world. Having met the "hooker with a heart of gold" who tidies his flat and, uniquely in the film, shows him respect and love, he drives her away with brutality and insults. In part one, the underground man uses recent historical events (such as the American Civil War) to demonstrate the violence and irrationality of. He vacillates constantly between rejecting everyone around him and craving their love, friendship or forgiveness. Notes from Underground takes place during a time of transformation and modernization for Russia, and to some degree explores what it means to be a modern man or an intellectual in the 19th century. He justifies logically all his disastrous decisions and questions the sanity of anything he does that is motivated by emotion. The self-defeating, somewhat neurotic protagonist manages to mess up every opportunity of improving his life that comes his way but manages to do so from a position of either moral or intellectual superiority. I still found it a very enjoyable film, which held my attention the whole way. When I saw this film, I was aware that it was a retelling of a Dostoyevky story but not one I had read it. ![]()
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