Between the Lines updates (international writing program)
Kids were to nominate
the films they’d like to watch – one Russian, one American. Somehow, the choice
of Russian films narrowed to Cheburashka, which is not even a film. I could
have never thought it would be such a fun to watch this Soviet cartoon on big
screen with English subtitles. Cheboksary turned into Chicago, pioneers into
boy scouts, and ‘doska pocheta’ into employees of the month. Americans got
really excited watching this ‘cute little creature’ building birdhouses,
collecting scrap metal or working as a toy in the kindergarten.
American film continued
the theme of friendship with Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off (1986), though in a completely different implementation.
Fake devices to skip classes, siblings’ hatred and a pack of lies in the
family, car adoration and idolization, fancy restaurants and high school
fundraising made a startling contrast.
Did they really want to show us American culture with
this film? the student asked.
I don’t know but many
a true world is spoken in jest.
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