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Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

Dr. Zhivago was a very intelligent doctor that came from nowhere and in coincidence he witnessed the killing of the soldiers of Russia to the civilians living there. He saw blood on the streets that filled the icy ground on winter.
Those days were very cold and he also felt and understood how the people were feeling on that time. And those people rallied because they knew there was no leadership in Russia anymore and they wanted a new leader. But when they did that, the soldiers suddenly attacked them with their horses and killed those civilians with their swords.
The movie expressed and explained well on what was happening to Russia. People were fighting all the time and killing didn't stop because their country was in a crisis.
Base on the movie, I think Dr. Zhivago depicted the Russian revolution as days of struggle and pain that are very difficult to endure for the people living there before.
Some of the reasons why the Russians wanted a change in their country were because the people were so tired watching other people get killed, and they were sick of fighting with each other. These people wanted peace in their country. And they were annoyed and deeply angry on how their ruler, Czar, was leading their country.
And because of WWI the Russians run out of their financial things were they started to lose food, and starvation increased mostly on the peasants living there at that time because they didn't have a lot of money to buy food for themselves.
The film depicted or described communism in Russia as a result of the revolution. Communism happened in Russia because the Russians didn't like the way they live. And they wanted to get paid the same amount of money on their jobs. That's why communism started in Russia. Vladimir Lenin was the man who led the communist people. And he thought that communism would make the people living in Russia happy and would reduce the war of the Russians with each other, and peace would happen eventually.
When Dr. Zhivago came back to Moscow, communism already started. He realized that he was in a position that even if he is a doctor, no one will look at him on a high level because they were all at the same level, and that they deserved to be treated with the same kind of respect with one another. This was a result of communism.
Dr. Zhivago at first was unaware that his house was being occupied and shared with other different families. And he was shock to know that he had a little share of the house that he used to owned and have all of it before. So then he was forced to lived in one room with his family.
This turned out to be so hard for him, and his life became a bit miserable that even if he is a doctor, he would still have the same amount of money that others have.

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