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I totally agree with Anonymous. How can anyone say that this movie is sexist? if it is so sexist then how come it is Anya who saves Dimitri during the train sequence? how come it is Anya who comes up with the idea to use the dynamite? how come it is Anya who breaks Dimitris nose, nearly screws of his hand, slaps him, outdoes him in wisecracks, and clears a jump on a horse while Dimitri falls off? And most importantly, how come it is Anya who defeats the villian at the end of the movie? Of course Dimitri saved Anya as a child, and he saved her from drowning at sea, and he tried to save her from Rasputan. But he was not doing it to be sexist. He was doing it because he really loved Anya, and when you love someone ( weather you are a man or a woman) you would probably do anything you could to protect that person. I think Anya protected Dimitri, just as much as he protected her. It is ridiculous to say that Dimitri couldn't stand the fact that Anya was richer then he was. What made him miserable was the fact that Anya, the girl with no home or family, actually had a real family in Paris. Dimitri had wanted to be Anyas family, but when he found out that the Dowager Empress was Anyas real grandmother, he knew that it would not be right to ask Anya to leave her grandmother (whom she hadn't seen in 10 years) to marry him. He also knew that he could not ask Anya to marry him and let him stay at the mansion in paris with her (even though he probably would have liked that even better then eloping) because he knew that he did not belong in high society. Dimitri felt that Anya would be much happier living with the real family that she had always wanted. The fact that Anya gave up her crown and her title to elope with Dimitri was supposed to be symbolic. At the beginning of the film she sings "Journey to the past" but the lesson is that you can never go back to your past, and Anya can not go back to being a princess anymore then she can go back to being 8 years old. again.
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