Little Vera

In Little Vera, Vera starts out the opposite of a heroine. Her parents looked down on her because of her rebelling attitude toward them. Her older brother Viktor criticizes her for lack of motivation and drive toward life. She has an I-don’t-care and a tough guy attitude about everything. Throughout the film you begin to see her walls coming down before she has an ultimate breakdown at the end of the film. She takes care of her drunk father. She wants things to work out between her fiancé Sergei and her parents but Sergei also has a rebellious attitude and treats Vera’s parents disrespectfully which ends up getting him stabbed. Before her major breakdown, she is at the beach with her family when she loses it when her mother claims she never wanted to have her. Though it seems at first like Vera deserves the grief from her parents it starts to become apparent that her parents are too hard on her and she isn’t very wanted and that her breakdown is understandable. I wouldn’t say Vera is a heroine but she is a sympathetic character with the verbal abuse she takes from her parents. I also sympathize with her father. Yes he is an alcoholic but the mother seems like an extremely difficult person to live with. Sergei is not by any means a sympathetic character and seems to cause even more tension in the family then there already is.