It’s all a mystery… Love – the idea that there is someone already there in the world who might hold the key to your whole existence.
Doctor Zhivago (2002)
It’s all a mystery…
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Do we really need words?
Unsaid words, ungiven kisses. So many things that they could have said to each other. Instead this silence, which is like a hard, solid rock in my heart. Every time I watch this classic movie when I finally reach the hospital scene, a little before Yuri and Lara say goodbye, I feel like somebody is depriving me of air. All those unexpressed feelings get a grip of me and they just do not let go.
There are certain things in the new Zhivago version that I am particularly fond of, like the scene in the coffee shop where Yuri and Lara’s faces become one in the window or the hospital scene where Yuri stands outside Lara’s room longing to get in but never actually opens the door. But there is absolutely nothing in the world that can be compared to Omar Sharif’s full of tears brown eyes while he looks at Lara. Tears that simply do not flow and a face that trembles from agony and pain as he watches her go away.
Julie’s firm look at the Bolsevick who curses good men like Zhivago. Omar’s trembling as he walks in the empty hospital, as if empty of blood, soul and feelings. And you just know that Lara has taken his heart with her.
After that scene I always find myself wandering “Do we really need words?”. Are they supposed to help us communicate or they where just meant to built barricades between us? Like the letters on the typewriter that are in no alphabetical order so that we won’t write too quickly. Typewriter…God sometimes I am old fashioned.
Fire & Air 