Privjet Anastasia~

I was merely curious about the Romanov mystery, I did do some research but I thought it would be even more fun if I watched a movie that actually referred to the story itself.

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Anastasia~

Although it's a bit... inaccurate. But meh.

So I downloaded Anastasia (1997), I did find several inaccurate points in the movie but I can really understand it since, after all, the real event was quiet bloody and brutal. Plus this movie supposedly meant for kids and... brutality does not belong to children movies at all.

I bought a matryoshka doll once from some souvenir shop in the airport (no I haven't been to Russia), then my mama suddenly referred that matryoshka doll to the story of the 'missing' Princess Anastasia. 

My mama suddenly told me stories like: "That matryoshka doll is the only thing that kept Anastasia's memories of the royal family." I have no idea why mum kept telling about this matryoshka doll story  and its connection with Anastasia (I guess she believes with the rumor about Anastasia surviving, I don't really know though) but what I know is that Anastasia along with the rest of her family died about 90 years ago, all of them were shot to death and buried deep in Yekaterinburg. But I heard that the Romanovs' skeletons were later found and they are now buried in St. Petersburg. 

It's a movie that brings back my childhood but at the same time trying its best to keep my love for history, and it's just amazing. How my childhood was mainly filled with movies about the good vs the bad, and I think Anastasia seems to have done a pretty good job in bringing my childhood days back to me again, plus I shivered throughout the whole movie.

I don't know, I guess recalling for the fact that in reality, I must say the story of the bloody murder of the Romanovs is pretty... mysterious in some way. Since after the news about the murder there are rumors spreading too, especially about how their youngest daughter, Anastasia, managed to survive

Somehow with Anastasia, it's no longer about the story of bloody murder of an imperial family anymore. It's already about something else, in a whole new level of storytelling. I felt that the movie is so magical, I even forget about the whole murder thing.

The songs are incredibly amazing too, my most favourites are of course, Once Upon a December and Journey to the Past. 

Then I discovered that some people actually have Anastasia's music box and when you open it, it started to play Once Upon a December. Ugh how I want it oh so badly now.

I also knew Rasputin from this movie, at first I didn't really get who his name was and I even thought the protagonists were calling him "Lenin" since he's the principle figure in the Russian Revolution and all. So I think it's pretty much normal if he's the villain in the movie, but then I did  some browsing in the internet about it and I was wrong ahaha..

 I think his character here in the movie isn't so scary (of course it's because it's a cartoon) as his counterpart... physically (I literally shivered just by seeing the real Rasputin image, somehow) Rasputin was said to be one of the many people that caused the fall of the imperial family, but his relationship with the imperial family in reality was entirely the opposite from his character in this movie. In fact, I heard that he was actually rather close with the children, especially Alexei. When it comes to his death, Rasputin was said to be quiet hard to be killed, and I guess that's why they pictured Rasputin as some living corpse whose anatomies constantly got separated everywhere. Eh.

But I still don't get how Lenin doesn't make any appearance in the movie.

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до свидания (Do Svidaniya) ~

Dadah

-Nibras Sakkir