Male Female Relationships in Films



Male Female Relationships in Films

Introduction

In literature, writers often focus on romantic relationships of couples, their feelings and relevant events of their life under the impact of their love. Sometimes, writer considers married couples, unmarried, cousins, class fellows, depending upon the plot of the story. The socioeconomic changes in Russia over the period of past few decades have changes the ways in which relationships have been portrayed in media. This essay discusses the relationships of couples illustrated in three different Russian films.

Kidnapping

This is a Russian comedy film. The theme of this film centers on the kidnap of a bride which was a cultural tradition in several Russian Tribes (Kidnapping Film, 1967). Shurik, the hero met Nina, the heroine on his way back from Caucasus. It was the point when Shurik's donkey had become stubborn and had refused to move forward; as soon as it saw Nina, it started moving. Saakhov, one of the wealthiest persons of the town, wanted to purchase Nina in order to marry her. Nina's uncle knew that she would not agree for marrying Saakhov as she had already started spending lots of time with Shurik; they planned to kidnap her.

Saakhov being a clever person, tried to involve Shurik in the kidnapping activity. Since Shurik was not aware of the local culture and customers of the town, it proved to be easy for Saakhov. He convinced Shurik that it was a part of local culture to kidnap the bride. Shurik decided to execute the kidnap because he had already developed intense feelings for the beautiful girl, Nina. Before Shurik could kidnap, he came to know from a person that Nina had actually agreed to marry Saakhov and she wanted to be kidnapped in order to marry him. Shurik, at first fell into grief as he was in love; later he realized that actual love is to give the lover what she wants; under this feeling, he agreed to help Nina and Saakhov.

As Shurik and Nina were camping, Shurik greeted her with an emotional good bye. He then helped the kidnappers. Eventually, after the kidnap of Nina, Shurik realized that the kidnap was real and no other than Saakhov was the master mind behind it. Meanwhile, Nina tried to run away but her uncle forced her to stay in the room.

The film reveals innocent love of male and female. The male was in addition to loving deeply, also ready to sacrifice his strongest desire in the name of his love. The film does not portray the conventional male dominance; instead it narrates the story where the male tried to understand his mate and wanted to make her happy, even if he had to sacrifice his own love. Although Shurik himself wanted to marry the girl, he agreed to execute the kidnapping activity in order to help her, so that she could marry someone else whom she wanted to marry. This situation portrays the universal fact about love that love does ...