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For this week's Hairy Harmonies, we have two stories of destruction for the greater good. In each, we start with a bad situation, and things get worse to fix it for the better. Neither film shows the aftermath. The contrast is that the first is about an entire nation in crisis, and the second is about an individual.

Конец Санкт-Петербурга (1927) Silent 1h 13min 21sec
aka The End of St. Petersburg / Konets Sankt-Peterburga

Synopsis: The struggles of a peasant and how he returns to St. Petersburg after WWI as a rebel.

Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be one of Vsevolod Pudovkin's most famous films and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors. Compared to Sergei Eistenstein's stly, Pudovkin’s is more fluid and psychologically motivated, wholly dependent on the specific characters within a given scene.

Promising Young Woman (2020) 1h 53min 53sec

Synopsis: A woman grieves a lost friend who was sexually assualted years ago and seeks retribution.

I'm not saying any more about it, but boy does it have a lot of warnings.

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Content Warnings

Конец Санкт-Петербурга no warnings listed on imdb nor dogdies, but:
war, poverty, explosions, flashing lights, gun violence, people die

Promising Young Woman (2020) 1h 53min 53sec

Sex & Nudity: Mild
Violence & Gore: Moderate
Profanity: Severe
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Moderate
Frightening & Intense Scenes: Moderate

flashing images
car honk/tires screech
someone leaves without saying goodbye
gaslighting
stalking
watched without knowing
cheating
kidnapping
spitting
screaming
obscene language/gestures
hate speech
bugs
alcohol abuse
someone drugged
restraints
sexual content
sexually objectification
woman slapped
r*pe mentioned
sexually assault
woman brutalized for spectacle
mouth covered
struggle to breathe
asphixiation
choking
unconciousness
torture
hand damaged
blood/gore
razors (scalpel)
someone dies
character dies
someone dies by suicide
hospital scene
mental illness
anxiety attacks
PTSD
melt down
mentally ill person violent
"Man in a dress" jokes? (breast plates/misogyny)

Letterboxd:

• https://letterboxd.com/film/the-end-of-st-petersburg/
• https://letterboxd.com/film/promising-young-woman/

Links to films:

• Конец Санкт-Петербурга (1927): https://tankie.tube/w/oHfk9bK1TfmfcgzHuqEJqg
• Promising Young Woman (2020) : https://tankie.tube/w/pJz3niUVxbZZ4iZ4KPun3e