Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Anastasia-Story of Magic and Recovery

Anastasia is a quite old cartoon, production of 20th Century Fox but it is a very good classic base on the true story of the last princess of Russia, Anastasia Nikolaevna. This story begins with the introduction of the grand atmosphere of the Romanov family. During that party, everyone is said to be "shining brightly" by the Empress of Russia but none "shone" brighter than her granddaughter, Anastasia. Everyone was having their hell of a time but nothing good ever last. The happy atmosphere was bring to a halt when the wicked monk, Rasputin emerges before the Romanov to seek revenge for banishing him. Along with him, he brought a weird cylinder which marks the trade of Rasputin with the devil. He eventually sold his soul so that he can have his revenge. He bestowed a curse on the Romanov's saying that all of them will die overnight. As the old saying goes "no evil ever prevails", his curse was not able to be completed due to the escape of Anastasia and the Empress with the help of the kitchen boy, Dimitri but Anastasia dropped her music box when escaping through the wall. When boarding the escape train, Anastasia tripped and fell, knocking her head in the process and was unable to join her grandmother in Paris. Ten years later, after the revolution of Russia, everybody is living through scraps but the rumors of the survival of Anastasia never fades. Dimitri, now a handsome young man along with his friend, Vlad went on a quest to seek out a good duplicate of Anastasia. On the other hand, a beautiful damsel who was raised in the orphanage and have completely no idea of her past, Anya set out on her own journey to seek the truth. Along the way, she met a dog, Pooka which brings her to Saint Petersburg where she stumbles among the two gentlemen. At first sight, Dimitri knew that Anya would play the perfect role of the duplicate Anastasia because according to him, Anya possesses the Romanov's blue eyes. Together, they went on a journey to seek their own fate but unknown to them, the story unwraps in a rather special way. I highly recommend this cartoon to everyone since it is a good combination of fantasy, love, courage, brain and etc. Hope you enjoy it too^^

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