Folks are fond of demonizing others, those who are not "us". I
find this fictitious movie shows the real world, rather than
such biases. Our hero is a Russian, one outsiders might demonize
with some label, and yet the movie plays out another
perspective. In many ways covers much of the same hypocrisy as Apocalypse Now, and so obviously
why I am fond of it, but it is from a different approach, and
offers a few other tidbits as well.
A few quotes I am fond of:
Arkady Renko: I'm just a plodding investigator, no style. Completely out of my depth. Oh, yes. Three bodies, three people, shot down and mutilated in Gorky Park, and me, I have food on my lip.
Arkady
Renko: Too many people in our society disappear.
They fall into a gulf.
Professor Andreev: What sort of gulf?
Arkady Renko: The gulf between what is said and
what is done.