May 1, 2022
dostoevksy hot takes: adaptations of the idiot always make nastasya too sympathetic and rogozhin too unsympathetic
#nastasya is MEAN she’s cruel y’all have u looked at her. first thing we see her do is be mean to myshkin when she mistakes him for a servant#meanwhile rogozhin IS friendly he’s chaotic and passionate and very violent but. he’s also the opposite of cold#not friendly but…affectionate? warm? capable of love? he’s passionate and hot in both hatred and affection - пойдем#узнаёшь как любит рогожин!#SURE it was before a little attempted murder… but what’s that between friends#and he isn’t cruel he’s VIOLENT and explosive but he isn’t sadistic#(NASTASYA is sadistic)#rogozhin#nastasya filippovna#the idiot#the idiot by dostoevky#dostoevky#myshkin is an awkward incapable saint they always get that right#the 2003 version was pretty good about this actually i like the rogozhin there very much and i like velezheva’s nastasya#& she is by far the bitchiest nastasya maybe even a little too stone cold#the BEST version of this all is wajda’s nastazja which is incredible beautiful perfect amazing albeit unorthodox (and only better for it)#fyodor dostoevsky#nastazja 1994#idiot 2003
