Overall, I enjoyed seeing this movie. It made me laugh, as well as incorporating a romantic feel into the storyline.
Throughout Zhenya's troubles, I noticed how marriage was brought up. It must be important to Russians in finding a husband or wife by a certain age. Marriage could be seen as a universal thing, but here in the States, more and more people are choosing the single life or are just choosing to be together without the label.
With all the apartments made to be the identical, did the government expect its citizens to lack individualism? And how did they treat their citizens?
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For much of Russian history (and particularly during the Soviet Union), individuality and "standing out" have been looked upon with a certain amount of suspicion. This is one of the great paradoxes of the Russian character: it almost seems at times to revolt against its own undeniable uniqueness. And this may be at least a small part of what gives everything (Russian) its absolutely peculiar and distinct flavor.
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