really better than I expected!

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2006)

Whenever I decide to watch a movie adapted from a Russian classic I am often disillusioned with the results.There are so many great Russian classic authors and their compelling,decisive, gripping,gritty real styles affected me so much.Pasternak is one of them.Doctor Zhivago was rejected in Russia at first due to Pasternak's difficult relationship with the Soviet government. In 1957 an Italian publisher smuggled the manuscript out of Russia and published the book in Russian in Milan. The book was finally published back in Russia in 1988!! Howe ironic isn't it? Well naturally Doctor Zhivago is a very long movie which defies convention some people may find the movie tediously long but it isn't actually though it's not exactly loyal to the plot of the book I guess that's the best David Lean and his team could.The performances of all the players from Omer Sharif to Julie Christie are really good.It may sound slow but the nature of the book since this is the best way to describe Zhivago's idealism and principles standing in brutal and horrific contrast to the horrors(corrupted ideals) of the Russian Revolution.All in all the movie was better than I expected!