The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Director: Norman Jewison
Watched: May 24, 2018
Rating: 7/10
Ah, the things we could learn from The Telephone Game,
Amusingly confusing with half the film in poor English and (in the original version) deliberately unsubtitled Russian.
An entertaining and heartwarming watch- though largely implausible, overdone, overlong, and predictable,
A cheesy but completely unlikely ending that teaches love and harmony, because "I do not mistrust... not really sinceriously. I wish not to hate anybody!"
Anyone who gripes that this Cold War satire is outdated should try replacing "Russians" with "Terrorists". ---- Gogyohka literally translates to "five-line poem." An alternative to the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules. Five lines with one phrase per line. What comprises a phrase? Eye of the beholder- or the poet, in this case. #Gogyohka #PoemReview #GoldenGlobesBestPicture #War
Ah, the things we could learn from The Telephone Game,
Amusingly confusing with half the film in poor English and (in the original version) deliberately unsubtitled Russian.
An entertaining and heartwarming watch- though largely implausible, overdone, overlong, and predictable,
A cheesy but completely unlikely ending that teaches love and harmony, because "I do not mistrust... not really sinceriously. I wish not to hate anybody!"
Anyone who gripes that this Cold War satire is outdated should try replacing "Russians" with "Terrorists". ---- Gogyohka literally translates to "five-line poem." An alternative to the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules. Five lines with one phrase per line. What comprises a phrase? Eye of the beholder- or the poet, in this case. #Gogyohka #PoemReview #GoldenGlobesBestPicture #War