dangermousie | Cheesy Memories of Childhood

OMG. I found Рабыня Изаура (La Escrauva Isaura/Slave Girl Isaura) on DVD.

Please, someone, tell me it's a bad idea to get it.

LEI was a Brazilian telenovela and it was the first one shown in the then-USSR when I was a kid. People sort of went insane for it. I remember having to go to a hospital for a month and refusing to go until I found out they had tv there. And all the kids in the kids ward, and all the nurses, would gather in front of the TV every single time and zombie out on it. Hey, still not as bad as some women who'd go to registrar's to change their names to the names of the characters.

Isaura was a slave to a wealthy Brazillian family, even though she was educated. The evil son of the owner wanted her with evil and hideous passion, and even murdered her first love in a fire (accidentally killing his own wife as well). But that's all right, she ran away and met a hunky millionaire, who defeated evil owner's son, married Isaura and emancipated all the slaves. Ehhhh, I was mainly about Dead-wife's brother/dead-first-love's sister OTP.

I think I also just talked myself out of it, heeeee. There is so much even I can take.

But I can still hum the theme song all these years later.

Seriously, I so should NOT.

ETA: My best and oldest (we've known each other for over 11 years now) friend in the whole world just got a livejournal. At