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THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Full Reaction!
🕑 Added 2022-05-31 16:25:54 +0000 UTCHey there! Thank you for being a Patron! Here's the full reaction to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER!
This is a Level 5 Patreon Tier Movie Request from Ian Forbes!
This was definitely an interesting film that had a LOT going on, at some points to the point where I did get a little confused, but definitely by the end of it, I pieced everything together and understood what had happened. Despite me getting a bit confused at points, this was again, a very interesting film that was understandably slow for the first chunk of it, but made it all worth it in the last sprint of the movie!
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Comments
Juley
I’ve seen several reactors watch Red October and they were all confused about the word “defect” and it still kind of amazes me (in a good way). I grew up during the Cold War. I was in my mid-twenties when this movie came out. The word “defect” was in our vocabulary since childhood. It simply means to change sides. The Soviet Union was shut tight. Nobody got in or out. It was notoriously oppressive in the U.S.S.R. and people would try to escape to America (or other Western countries) and request asylum. Very few succeeded, but there were a few famous ones who did. Mikhail Baryshnikov is the most well known. He was a world class dancer in the ballet. I’m sure there is video of him dancing online. Technically he defected to Canada, but then came to the U.S. He actually starred in a movie called “White Nights” about a famous Russian ballet dancer that had defected to the U.S. Then he was on a plane that had to make an emergency landing in Russia. He had to find a way to escape again. The stuff in Red October was also a familiar theme for us. It was a real poker game between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Both sides were spying on each other, but still had really limited information about the other’s capabilities. In the scene where Alec Baldwin is briefing everybody at the White House, all they had were a couple of really grainy pictures of Ramius from a distance. That would be true. There was no way for anyone to just take pictures and send them out of the country. Technology has changed that. Even though Putin is now trying to shut down access to outside information, a lot of it is still getting through. The reason why so many Russians left the country in the first couple days after the Invasion of Ukraine was the fear Putin would shut down the borders again. They remember the oppression of Russians during the Cold War. It’s nice to see that young Americans haven’t had to retain the knowledge of that time.
T.J. Gengler
Hey, my brain has been running on half wattage for weeks now. It's all good.
TheOGBojangles
Side note, I completely misunderstood the part where Jack says to his daughter that he's gonna get her BEAR a brother-- I really didn't get he was talking about a stuffed bear LMAO my bad I thought he meant another kid Peanut brain moment!
