Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! Part One

Upon choosing Russian Cinema class, I was under the assumption that we would be watching merely action-esque films, such as war propaganda and things of the sort, but upon watching the beginning of Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! I was genuinely surprised. The comedical aspect of the film is much different than that of American comedy; the humor was very straightforward and did not require much analysis to understand unlike conventional American comedy which gratuitously uses innuendo to portray comedy. However, this is not with out saying that American and Russian comedy do not have their similarities. In concern to the charater of Zhenya, his plight is universal; he became intoxicated and woke up in somewhere he was unfamiliar with. This can be compared to the current day American film The Hangover; the four main characters losing their friend who is to be married within the span of two days due to being heavily intoxicated the night previous.