#Yes I know this is Katya centric I got distracted

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the great thing about goncharov's thing with clock & time themes is that it really drives home this sense of urgency, but when you look at the narrative as a whole, they're not running out of time during the course of the movie. That's just what it feels like to the characters.

Their actions have impact, sure, but could it even end any other way? By the start of the movie, they're already locked into their respective doomed narratives and they all collapse onto each other. Despite the constant ticking of the clock, it's already too late. Doomed by the narrative and their own choices, these characters never would have reached another ending point.

And that's why it doesn't matter if Katya dies in the end, or if her death is just staged. Someone else already pointed it out, but it truly doesn't matter - what matters is the Loss of Katya. She disappears from her life as we know it, from Goncharov's narrative. Here it becomes apparent that it doesn't matter if she chose to disappear (faking her death) or if she is simply lost to everyone who knew her by a cruel fate.

It's the same in the end, because we know there was a love in Katya's and Goncharov's relationship, we can argue if it was healthy, but it was there and it was real. There was real love in her scenes with Sofia. But Katya wasn't happy, she would continue to carry this constant sadness and grief and guilt within her throughout the entire movie and no matter the choices she makes, there is no end result that Katya could choose to be happy.

Everything Katya does is out of love, she doesn't act in pursuit of happiness, hurting herself in the process. So by the end of the movie, despite the way her character is developed, we know Katya will choose other people's happiness over her own. We know that even if her death is staged, she won't end up in happy circumstances. She's doomed by the narrative and her own grief.

#goncharov #Yes I know this is Katya centric I got distracted #I'm biased ok #I just rewatched goncharov and hhhhhHHH #'time is of the essence' IS IT ANDREI? IS IT??