Irony of Fate or Enjoy your Bath!
It is clear why “Irony of fate, or Enjoy your Bath” is a popular New Years Eve movie in Russia. It can keep the attention of those who are young and old, which is a hard task for movies nowadays. Some movies I believe it is similar to in the United States are “National Lampoons Christmas Vacation”, and “A Christmas Story.” One difference I have noticed between those movies we find comedic in America and those that are comedic in Russia is the level of appropriateness. It seems as though Americans are more excepting of inappropriate behavior than the Russians. This movie seems to have a very clean sense of humor even with the high level of alcohol use. Even though most of us in America have grown up in a society accepting of crude behavior as humor, it is refreshing to see a movie that can be funny without it. One thing I found to be occurring in both this Russian film and American films is alcohol use causing some sort of misfortune for the characters.
What makes this movie a little hard to believe is the familiarity between two towns five-hundred miles apart. The story was set up nicely in the beginning when it explained that the buildings were built and painted the same and the locks were standard; however, I just find it hard to believe that one key can open up a thousand doors. I understand the film would be nothing without this concept, but I just find it hard to grasp. Other than that, so far the movie is very good and I’m excited to finish it to find out what is going to happen to Zhenya.