I don't expect the show to spend much time in Moscow next season, and I'm afraid that Lev Gorn is just being too busy with his several careers (actor, photographer, painter).
Hahahahaha. Great summing up. And yes, I was thinking of you during those Arkady scenes, as well as me, at the prospect of him being written off. NOOOOOOO.
The whole thing with Philip's son was most interesting to me for the background - the depiction of the mental hospital, and then of the group apartment, its lighting, furnishings, that kitchen!!!, etc. Seemed very true to life to me, and an important contrast to how the characters in America live, and what they take for granted.
That is true enough, but I think there is another element at play in that image. It's the low-angle view of the house that makes it look as if it is extra-ordinarily large and 'looming' over the viewer. It has in that way the power to transport the viewer back to his early childhood when everything 'loomed' over them and the unknown which such things represented gave that youngster "the wiggins" - to use a turn-of-phrase from the Buffyverse (though I remember using that phrase in grade school in the mid-1960s! We had a kid with the surname of Wiggins. Maybe we [my school] started it?).
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I don't expect the show to spend much time in Moscow next season, and I'm afraid that Lev Gorn is just being too busy with his several careers (actor, photographer, painter).
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The whole thing with Philip's son was most interesting to me for the background - the depiction of the mental hospital, and then of the group apartment, its lighting, furnishings, that kitchen!!!, etc. Seemed very true to life to me, and an important contrast to how the characters in America live, and what they take for granted.
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the depiction of the mental hospital, and then of the group apartment, its lighting, furnishings, that kitchen!!!, etc. Seemed very true to life to me
It was indeed! They are really good with such details.
Have you checked Lev Gorn's artwork online?
http://www.celesteprize.com/lev.gorn
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The art: not my speed so much, though perhaps seeing prints in person they'd look different than they do online.
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I think that it is mostly the big shadow cast by that small tree (see the picture above) that makes the house look sinister.
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