I ended up staying at school last night to watch a movie called Songs From The Southern Seas about a Russian man named Ivan who lives in Kazakhstan with his wife who bears him a dark skinned son, which immediately arouses suspicion that his wife was having an affair with the neighbor. The entire length of the movie is really more about the prejudices we have and a search for identity. For example there is another person in the movie who is of German descent and longs to see his family, yet he has grown up in Kazakhstan and can only speak Russian, something his employer reminds him about quite frequently, yet his desire to seek out his true heritage is so great that he goes back to his family. A very touching and well done foreign movie that I probably would have never seen on my own.
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