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“Good Morning, Sleepyhead”

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Princess Mononoke (1997) background art

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sport related matsuhanas with bright backgrounds

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matching tattoos

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made these way back when HANAPIPPI was revealed and fixed my life forever

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so tired of seeing goncharov fans on here being like “omg goncharov/katya/sofia polycule!! katya has two hands!!!” when the whole POINT is that katya CANT have both, she has to CHOOSE, and it’s ultimately left ambiguous whether or not she made the right choice……..like i get wanting happy endings for the characters but i feel like this kind of shallow interpretation of katya’s respective relationships with goncharov and sofia just cheapens the story!!!

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What we know about Goncharov so far:

PRODUCED by Scorsese, but DIRECTED by Matteo JWHJ 0715, get it right.

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino star, along with Cybill Shepherd. Released in 1973.

About Soviets in Naples dealing with the mob. Greatest mafia movie ever made, natch.

Ice Pick Joe is under rated.

Homoeroticism between Goncharov and Andrey is extremely popular in the modern day, bordering on explicit text and desire even through their rivalry and sublimated competing for Katya.

Katya is underused in the movie, and is a complicated character who is both the femme fatale, the center of a love triangle between Goncharov and Andrey, Goncharov’s wife, and also manipulating everyone.

There’s also a scene where Katya kisses Sofia? Tumblr lesbians go crazy.

Had political undertones and commentary, possibly about the failures of the Soviet Union, or leftist ideology vs. realpolitik.

Is over three hours long and kinda slow at times. Violent. Not as easy to watch as the memes and shipping would have you believe.

However conversely film bros who reduce to a badass gangster movie are missing so so much.

Has clock symbolism. Themes of how the characters are trapped in cycles of violence, revenge, hubris, tragedy. Lots of Catholic imagery.

Snubbed at awards, lack of official releases has turned it into a bit of lost media, despite how influential it was.

There have been talks of sequels/remakes through the years but nothing has ever come of it.

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"When I first married you, Goncharov, I was nobody. My father's daughter, my brother's sister. When I walked towards you at the altar, I felt that was the moment I would finally become someone real enough to have flesh and blood to call mine. Katya wouldn't sound so empty on my lips. And with those same lips I called your name, and smiled at you in front of God, and kissed you in the dark of our room. And all I became was your wife. Oh, I was a good wife, wasn't I? A wife when you needed someone to bed, a sister when you needed someone to argue, a mother when Andrei needed to cry... is it all women are in your eyes? Actors, pretty dolls to dress up and spin around according to your needs? The party needed for me to believe in the cause, so I did. My father needed for me to marry young, so I did. You needed for me to love you. And it comes to this, at last. I started being Katya, at being myself, not upon falling in my role, but at the discovery of an unwillingness, of an inability. My inability to be loyal to you, Goncharov, is what saved me. And what now kills you all the same

Katya Goncharova - Goncharov (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese

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Look there are a lot of perfect moments in Goncharov but to me you absolutely cannot top the moment Sofia lights Katya’s cigarette. The sudden silence, the mutual understanding of I love you and I will burn you to ashes. The way Sofia’s fingers linger on the box of matches, the way Katya blows smoke like she’s building a screen for the two of them to have a moment of alone…

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CYBILL SHEPHERD as KATYA in MARTIN SCORSESE'S GONCHAROV (1973) dir. Matteo JWHJ0715

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I know most of the fandom is enthralled by how the relationship between Andrey and Goncharov develops (and I am too! it's a beautiful film, with a compelling power dynamic!), but I really think we need to talk more about Ice Pick Joe.

and more specifically, we've gotta talk about his ice pick, and how he uses it.

it's implied that he's killed a lot of people with that ice pick, but only one of those deaths is shown in the film. it's a hard scene to watch, and some people might want to skip over it, but I think the brutality is part of the point. there's a reason that it's played out with such excruciating detail.

see, ice picks are used as weapons all the time in movies, usually with a stab to the throat or ear, leading to a quick but bloody death. but in Goncharov, the scene is played out slowly, with Joe tying Amarro to a chair before almost carefully putting the pick through his eye socket.

sound familiar to anyone? it should. for a lot of reasons.

Amarro Fiamberti was the name of the first psychiatrist to ever perform a transorbital lobotomy. it was only due to his research that Walter Freeman was able to come up with his own lobotomy technique: one involving an ice pick.

Walter Freeman died in 1972, just months before Goncharov went into production.

and then there's the fact that Joe's ice pick is stolen (where did you steal it from, Joe? from whose operating table?) and the implications that he has his own struggles with mental health (the mention of his sister's murder, the humor he uses as a coping mechanism, the camera angles that give a sense of unreality to any scenes that are from his perspective).

I don't think any of that is an accident or a coincidence.

in my opinion, Ice Pick Joe's story is a tale of revenge - not against someone who wronged him, but against a medical procedure that wronged thousands of people.

and murderer though he may be, he's still my favorite character.

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after finishing the film all i could say was goncharov katya epic divorce arc WHEN!!!!

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Haven't seen goncharov (1973) yet? In that case go watch it RIGHT NOW, but if you don't have the time for a 3h 32mins film (which is understandable but you have to make the time at some point) and you want to understand the memes I have you covered. (Keep in mind that there are gonna be important spoilers in this post)

Important characters:

Goncharov

Katya Michailov - Goncharov's wife

Andrey - Goncharov's lover (or almost)

Sofia - Katya's lover

Minor characters

Mario Ambrosini

Ice pick Joe

Valery Michailov - Katya's brother

Important scenes

The Boat Scene: a scene in which Katya almost dies.

Beer Bottle Scene: an infamous scene in the movie

Anchovy scene: a scene with heavy homoerotic subtext between Goncharov and Andrey

Dressing for dinner scene: a scene where Katya and Andrey are shown dressing up with cuts that give each of the things they wear the same importance as survival items, from Katya's high heels to Andrey's dagger

Bridge scene: goodbye scene between Katya and Goncharov. Beautifully made as you can see Katya second guessing her choice to betray him but she's too far in to turn back

Fruit stand scene: a heavily homoerotic conversation between Katya and Sofia while they are buying apples

Important plot points

Katya betrays Goncharov

Andrey betrays him too for money

Goncharov has betrayed Katya's family too, and Andrey is a living reminder of that

Goncharov is shot at the end, resulting in his death

Katya fakes her death at one point

Katya's father is killed at the beginning of the movie and she feels responsible for it for almost the entire movie, until she finally accepts that there was nothing more she could have done to save him, only to die alone in the boathouse

Even though Katya loves Goncharov, when she has to choose between him and Sofia, she chooses Sofia

There is a love triangle between Goncharov, Andrey and Katya too

Other important things

The clock symbolism is just so important in this film it deserved to be here

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pearls.

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