#sofia anselmo

And it only took a couple weeks past the meme’s prime to finally finish it for real

In films, a married woman is forced to remove her sense of self to the role the partiarchy has assigned to her, but here, after Goncharov denies his feelings for Andrey for the final time (or so he thinks), he becomes a mob boss. He has to become the masculine, and unflinching Goncharov. While Katya does suffer from her marriage, it is only after she’s married that she discovers who she is outside of her family, falls deeper in love with Sofia, and makes deals behind her husband’s back, making her also a vital person in the mafia.

How did they manage to make bisexual lighting work in a mafia movie made in 1973(plus a black and white version because I thought it looked nice lol) anyways goncharov yuri rules

All the thanks in the world to @kurtcobainsgreencardigan for managing to track down a clear screenshot of our favorite Be Gay Do Crime Girlboss!

SURE Scorsese refined the storyline and updated the setting for contemporary audiences, but do you REALLY think he could’ve invented the dynamic tension between Andrey-Goncharov-Katya-Sofia and the existentialist themes of Time Inevitably Bringing Us All to Ruin from whole cloth???? Bestie, I’m sorry to say that’s the filmbros getting in your head

Also, sofia is almost always presented as completely unshakeable, but we know for a fact that someone has tried to kill her (confirmed when she mentions the bomb from her past) and that may in part have led to her reoccurring dreams of immortality.