Overall, I enjoyed this movie.
While the three girls who were roommates in the worker's dormitory all have some similar qualities, they are also very different. Lyudmila is the party animal out of the three. When Katya is asked to watch her uncle's apartment while he is away, it is Lyudmila's idea to have a party and pretend they are very rich and successful women. We do not really see too much of Tonya, except for when she gets married. She seems to be the most serious of the three women, and she settles down very early in her life. Katya is very easily influenced by the people around her. It does not take much convincing from Lyudmila to get Katya to agree to throw a party in her uncle's apartment. She does not know Rudolph for very long before he gets her pregnant. Also, Gosha is constantly reminding Katya that he is in charge of their relationship because he is the man in the family. But I think the main reason the three women are able to remain friends is because they have all come to Moscow looking for happiness.
Gosha and Rudolph are very interesting characters. When Katya tells Rudolph that she is pregnant, he tells her that she should have been more careful. He says he will not be around to help her raise her child because it is not his fault. Gosha is very sexist, and even leaves Katya when he finds out that she makes more money than he does. Gosha intrudes on the lives of Katya and Alexandra, and is constantly reminding Katya that he is in charge because he is the man in the family. I don't know if Katya is really in love with Gosha or not. I think she has just been lonely for so long that she does not mind the way Gosha has taken over her life.
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Though I think Gosha may be a bit more complex than you're making him out to be. Note, for example, that he cooks and has no problems working in the kitchen. It simply can't be stressed how extraordinarily unusual that kind of behavior is for a Russian male.
Also, keep in mind that he *does* come back at the end--which suggests that he is now willing to live with a wife who is making much more money than he is, and that he may be compromising his "ideals" and stereotypes about how things ought to be more than might initially seem to be the case on the surface.
Ahh, yes, that's true.
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