Globalization/Глобализаця
I teach a group of teenagers out on the edge of the city limits of Moscow where I live and Soviet architecture reached (reaches) its nadir. The first day at the end of class I asked my students, whose English is incredible, what their favorite bands or movies were. The one boy of my four students, dressed in baggy jeans and a Carhart hoody, replied that he was a huge follower of The White Stripes and that his favorite movie was
Requiem for a Dream. He, however, announced that the dubbed Russian versions of R
equiem was crap because it cut out all the best scenes (i.e. the ones where the cocaine use spirals out of control and bloated purple veins and amputated arms are shown) and so much was lost in translation. He then proceeded to take out his several-hundred dollar mobile phone and asked if he could take my picture.
Say hello to the new Russia.
Posted by Aaron at March 9, 2004 12:50 PM