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Lilya 4-ever: run, don't walk,

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to your local store and rent it. Netflix has it.
Though it is the unrelenting story of a girl, deserted by her mother, and her consequent and seemingly unstoppable descent into modern hell, yet the director manages to show how the human spirit cannot be destroyed.
If her relationship with the male adolescent doesn't twist at your guts, you're gutless.
What a great film week for me: Bus 174 and now this little gem.

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I watched this heart wrenching film a few months ago with my wife - MMasztal 06:35:08 12/28/05 (1)
But side from it being a good "film", sadly, it's also very real. We are both former police officers and were foster parents until we adopted twins this year. Living in the US doesn't mean it doesn't happen here. We saw the same kind of story way too often while on the force and with fostering. It brought back some bad memories.
- Hey, I just got an email from my best - tinear 08:50:56 12/28/05 (0)
  friend who has been on the police force in a medium-sized town for a little over a year. He responded two days ago to a domestic violence call. He saw the woman in severe distress inside the house and, as he forced the front door, the husband blew her away with three shotgun blasts.
  Nothing to do with the movie but... yeah, Lilya is intense. Good for you fostering and adopting, I'm a former child protective services worker and I remember cops saying "Y'all go into these houses to remove kids without a gun? Ya'll're crazy!" (Sav'h. speak).
You just love Russian girls - Victor Khomenko 17:04:17 12/27/05 (4)
Will put it on the list - thanks!
- I'm very curious about your opinion on this one. I can't - tinear 04:03:03 12/28/05 (3)
  forget the girl and it's not her appearance, per se.
  - Ordered... - Victor Khomenko 06:19:11 12/28/05 (2)
    I was just kidding of course.
    But it is not surprising that some of the best humanist films come from the former Estern Block countires - places like Poland, Czech republic, Russia, Kazakhstan, Yugoslavia. Perhaps to them the humanist ideals are still like open wounds, while to the Westerners it is like last year's surgery?
    Did you see Depuis qu'Otar est parti... (Since Otar Left...)... there is so much human suffering and determination to survive in those simple women's faces...
    - I've heard about Otar before. I'll put it into the queue. nt - tinear 16:20:10 12/28/05 (0)
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    - Re: Ordered... - Audio Pharaoh 14:31:15 12/28/05 (0)
      " But it is not surprising that some of the best humanist films come from the former Estern Block countires - places like Poland, Czech republic, Russia, Kazakhstan, Yugoslavia. Perhaps to them the humanist ideals are still like open wounds, while to the Westerners it is like last year's surgery? "
      Very well put and so true !
      AP
      
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