Watch "The Return" film and answer the following questions separately:
- What do you think the film has to say about the challenges of adolescence, especially considering the portrayal of the younger brother, Ivan, and his interactions with other boys close to his age, his brother, and, of course, his father?
- Why do you think the father in the film decides to return and then take his sons on a "fishing" trip? Is there, for the father's behavior or the way he interacts with his sons during the road trip?
- How might The Return be interpreted allegorically or symbolically, especially with regard to religious sumb
and make a short response to my classmate's answer for the third question 3. There are many religious symbols in the movie. The first time the boys see their father he is laying in bed The film takes place over seven days which is significant to the Christian story of God making the world in se film when the father first comes home and they are eating dinner and the father passes out the food and win, disciples. Even when the father dies and his body is laying on the ground it resembles Jesus on the cross wi director was trying to make a connection to the father and the story of Jesus. Jesus was gone, he came bacl was also possible the film was about what it is like to be Russian. The father could have been a representati' Russian people. There have been struggles and hard times for the Russian people, but they still have pride