Wow after a whole week of sad and/or depressing films, I wasn't sure what to think of this film. It had the same Russian style of comedy where it seems like it's trying to be serious but at the same time funny. I don't understand the Russians idea of comedy. It just doesn't seem funny to me.
There were some similarites to Irony of Fate. There was a woman that more than one man liked, Nadya in Irony of Fate and Nina in Kidnapping Caucasian Style. They like to make fun of drinking. They show how drinking leads to bad incidents like getting put on a plane they weren't suppose to be on or getting thrown in an asylum. Also, the characters keep to one area in the town that they are in. They have a simple setting.
Kidnapping Caucasian Style had more characters in it. There were the three kidnappers that reminded me of Laurel and Hardy. They also had more comedic songs like the one Nina sings about the bears.
Overall, I think it was a decent comedy. As I said before, I wasn't really ready for a comedy after all the sad/depressing films and especially after Mirror. I'm beginning to think that Russian comedy is similar to British comedy. You have to have a particular taste for it.
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I suppose you do need to have a certain taste for Russian comedy. I think the reason it is hard to understand Russian comedy is because it tries to teach a lesson even though it often tries to present it in a comedic manner. Most of these films though have been classics for so many years now, so to the Russians it is almost hard to see anything cynical in them. People mostly just see the nostalgia in them and the way life used to be.
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