saw the mutuals were having fun with some old movie from 1973 so I watched it to see what the fuss was all about and yes the main guys were definitely gay but why do I not see anybody in the tag talking about katya and sofia because jesus fuck. “I’d have fallen into darkness had it not been for your hand pulling me out into the safety of your embrace. I’m eternally grateful to have you by my side.” “and I, you.” THE SHEER FUCKING DYKERY H O L Y SHIT
and that’s not even mentioning the sharing each other’s clothing or the bathing scene because FVSKFJXHFWKS??????
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goncharov (1973) starters
unrealism tw. quotes taken from fanart and fake screencaps. adjust pronouns as needed.
❛ tell them i send my regards. ❜
❛ time stops for nobody, not even us. ❜
❛ what you should fear right now is not how much time you have left but how horribly it shall be spent. ❜
❛ my people are all dead, but so are those bastards. ❜
❛ selfishness is a luxury one can't afford in a position of power. ❜
❛ and dark, dark, yet darker it becomes. ❜
❛ you of all people should know. ❜
❛ you've seen its colors. you've lived it. ❜
❛ and yet you run from this simple fact.. ❜
❛ fairness does not exist in this world. ❜
❛ damn them as they would damn you. ❜
❛ damn them as they would damn us. ❜
❛ what a shit show. ❜
❛ does it ever end? it doesn't. ❜
❛ they say we should not stop the flow, but it's the highest, most primal of evils. ❜
❛ and yet we are content with letting it toy with us. ❜
❛ we cannot stop the flow, doing so only brings the ruin further. ❜
❛ november is the cruelest month of the year. ❜
❛ this pain, it follows us everywhere. like our shadows. ❜
❛ you got the best of it. and then you got the worst of it. ❜
❛ this world is cruel, perhaps too cruel for people like you. ❜
❛ the clock will strike for everyone, even for you. ❜
❛ they neglect to tell you how dangerous hope can be. ❜
❛ call it forgiveness with teeth. ❜
❛ i didn't know pain until i met your eyes. ❜
❛ you look better in red. ❜
❛ you wasted time you never had. ❜
❛ i fear someday your faith in yourself will be your end. ❜
❛ you never stop being a dog, you only change who you belong to. ❜
❛ i believed you to be my friend. ❜
❛ oh you poor, naive fool. ❜
❛ you will have to tell them i am sorry, for i have no sorrow left. ❜
❛ don't waste your time praying for my soul, i am too damned ot be saved. ❜
❛ you can't stop time, even if you break the clock. ❜
❛ you've taken so much from me, and yet i still can't give a damn about you. ❜
❛ of course we're in love, that's why i tried to shoot you. ❜
❛ if you loved me, you wouldn't have missed. ❜
❛ do you ever think about the past? ❜
❛ leave, and never return. ❜
❛ i wonder why we always meet on the edge of things. ❜
❛ they can't kill me in a way that matters. ❜
❛ you will be forced to choose or the choice will be made for you. ❜
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How did you get that lil picture of Ocalan on ur blog description?
Alas, it is Goncharov, from the 1973 film Goncharov, which is a true classic mafia film so much beloved by Tumblr.
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ok ok the QUILT SYMBOLISM. in the scene where everyone is tending to their wounds and anticipating answering Andrey's invitation to the ballroom dance, the group sleeps in that old shack. they bandage up Mario's arm and Valery refuses to help because he's stubborn and they haven't had their moment of understanding yet. they all sleep under this big quilt. it's pretty hard to see in the dark but it was specially commissioned by Matteo JWHJ0715 to represent the story of the movie. there's a lot of recognizeable russian and italian things on the quilt and it basically tells the story of the movie in abstract. the group is, in essence, a quilt. people with so different lives all struggling together before their inevitable, tragic ends. it can also point to Goncharov's struggle of identity between his heritage and his Italian mafia life that has consumed his life. he has a russian accent in flashbacks but speaks with an italian accent in the present because he's been in Italy so long.
or something, I don't know
LOVE THAT you know, the oldest surviving example of a quilted linen piece is actually one that was found in a cave in mongolia and is currently kept at the russian institute of sciences-- I think there's really something to the idea of taking a piece of cultural heritage and putting it in a box somewhere far from home that really speaks to the story of goncharov and andrey, both of them isolated and far from anything familiar, particularly with historical motifs appearing in that scene where they destroy part of Pompeii, these ideas of legacy and cultural seperation and carelessness with the those things, even when they're so important. I'd wonder if that quilt appeared again anywhere, maybe dirtied up in the later scenes, while they're all casting aside the things that mattered to them and their cultural values in favor of trying to truly live the lives of mobsters and focus only on winning an unwinnable cycle of violence.
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