As the subject asks. Which one has your heart?
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kevayreski — 11 years ago(December 26, 2014 04:41 PM)
This is one of the small things that I didn't like about this otherwise excellent movie.
Whatever about the casting (I do like Julie Christie - love Don't Look Now - but Geraldine Chaplin was beautiful too), I never got a sense of why he kept leaving Tonya for Lara)
She seemed a much more pleasant character, a better & more loving partner. They had a child togetherr. They seem to have been through more together
It reminds me of Fatal Attraction.
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I've no idea why Michael Douglas's character would cheat on his wife with Glenn Close (or her character)
And we never get to see what happened to Tonya in the end.
Like she never mattered.
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CountJohn — 10 years ago(July 19, 2015 02:58 PM)
I liked the movie, but I genuinely didn't understand Zhivago's motivation for his affair. Tonya was the sort of loyal wife most every man dreams of having. Zhivago didn't really seem like "the type" to have an affair just based on lust, but even if he did, Geraldine Chaplin is certainly a very attractive woman herself, so really there was no reason for him to be unfulfilled in that area either.
Maybe he just thought Tonya was "simple" whereas he could relate to Lara on a more intellectual level, hence why she inspired all his poetry. -
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JaneThree — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 06:56 PM)
Julie Christie is beautiful but distractingly contemporary looking, with bleached blonde pouffy 1960s hair and a tan, to boot. I also found that Shariff's Yuri seemed more tender with Geraldine Chaplin's Tanya, more connected. They seemed to belong together. I didn't dislike Lara. I've never disliked the people Julie Christie plays; they're always relatable in some way, not vain, and down to earth.
For me it's not a matter of which woman is better, but which couple is better. Without question Yuri/Tanya is the couple. I remember being upset when Tanya disappeared from the film. If Yuri had been flung apart from his family without his control, separated thousands of miles, and started an affair with Lara, it would have felt more real. But even then I wouldn't have believed they could have succeeded as a couple after the war. -
gergelyszabo — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 11:21 AM)
Tonya all the way.
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