Watched Anastasia for the First Time in a While on This First of Hopefully Not Too Many Boring Weekends. Once Upon a December was a Chilling Masterpiece

That last part of the scene where she is dancing with her father....just wow....so much raw emotion...made all the more tragic now that we know what her fate was in real life. But even without that, the image of her dancing with her father who she forgot due to the bump to the head, memories taken away from her because evil took advantage of civil unrest.

There's a quote in Revolutionary Russia by Orlando Figes at the beginning of Chapter 5: "It began with bread." A series of bread riots turned into a revolution because of horrible natural conditions that led to flour not being able to make it to the capital which resulted in factories closing and thousands of laid off workers who would be understandably upset. No matter the failures of Czar Nicholas II in real life, a man and his entire family were butchered because people were upset at their current living situation.

Man must not live on bread alone.

Just those kind of thoughts made that scene really powerful to me.

Submitted March 23, 2020 at 09:32AM by AccurateIllustrator2 https://ift.tt/2WATnch