Word: zhivago
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...opens with credits superimposed over a crayon drawing of grass, trees, and the like, which dissolve into Alec Guiness's boots, whence we pan up to Guiness's face. And from here Dr. Zhivago begins a long downhill trek, surprising us about every ten minutes when it can't get worse but does...
Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...
...Julie Christie had been my mother I don't think I would have forgotten, but Rita Tushingham unfortunately has. Unfortunately, because it gives Guiness an excuse, however lame, to launch into the three-thousand-seventeen-minute story of Dr. Zhivago and his small circle of intimates...
...meet the young doctor as a med student in pre-World-War-I Moscow, explaining to his superior that he would rather practice than do research, on account of liking people. But as it turns out, Zhivago spends most of his life writing poems, and the only time he practices his trade is when the Bolshiveks kidnap him and force him to care for the people he loves so dearly...
...conflict is like this: Should Zhivago be allowed to live an idyllic existence, alternating between his wife, Geraldine Chaplin, and his mistress, Julie Christie, and all the while pen those poems? Or should he, like any decent fellow, devote some of his energies to aiding his fellow...