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Need help with a quote: Lara is complaining about mother's neighbors

posted 11 years ago by kevin-bergin
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... gossiping and Pasha says something like "Everything is corrupt, it will all be better after the revolution."

Or something to that effect.

Great to think he is so caught up in the revolution that he believes it will change the way people talk about each other?

Or did it?

[–] palisade-1 11 years ago

The line you're looking for occurs early in the movie, when Pasha wals Lara home after he has been handing out leaflets. Standing by the entrance to Lara's house, Lara says, "Monsieur Komarovsky has come to see my mother on business." Lara looks around and says, "People gossip around here."
Pasha says, "It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."

Great to think he is so caught up in the revolution that he believes it will change the way people talk about each other?

Or did it?

He's committed to the Revolution, but he has just finished saying he's not a Bolshevik and doesn't like them because "they don't know right from wrong."

I think the line is meant to convey that Pasha is an idealist and also hopelessly naive.

Individuals change, but human nature does not change.

[–] kevin-bergin 11 years ago

Thanks for the help.