{"id":1106,"date":"2020-05-01T03:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2020-05-01T05:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:39:50","slug":"locks-in-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/nkhumalo\/locks-in-anna\/","title":{"rendered":"Locks in Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anna<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Nikita Mikhalkov illustrates the shift in the Russian political awareness during Perestroika using the development of his daughter from child to young woman. As a young child, Anna is not yet cognizant of the malevolent forces at play in the world. Her worst enemy is borsch, her least favorite soup. At this time, to an extent the soviet government was still able to distract its citizens from its internal inadequacies. Magnificent shows of military and industrial might kept unease at bay for now, but theatrics can only do so much. As she grows older, she slowly begins to lose her childish qualities and begins to notice structural issues within her society. Her father notices \u201cthe locks she [Anna] forged\u201d and realizes that he might never gain access. The lock metaphor demonstrates that the creation of these boundaries was not immediate but a gradual shift that was facilitated by the natural aging process and the collection of experiences. Locks are installed to keep intruders out and to protect precious possessions. Anna now holds delicate emotions that she does not want to be tarnished. In her interview with her father, she points out that soviet clothing is not great quality, and the new clothing is better. This moment marks the beginning of the development of her social consciousness, and consequently, the beginning of the national revival that took place during Perestroika.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This film prompted me to consider my own coming of age story. While I appreciate this wonderful documentary, I would hate to be Anna and have a camera following me around during, arguably, the most tender moments of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Anna, Nikita Mikhalkov illustrates the shift in the Russian political awareness during Perestroika using the development of his daughter from child to young woman. As a young child, Anna is not yet cognizant of the malevolent forces at play in the world. Her worst enemy is borsch, her least favorite soup. At this time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-12-perestroika-and-the-new-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}