What you call 'White Land Ottawa' reminds me of the movie Dr. Zhivago, or specifically speaking, its snowy scenes.
All the decisive incidents of the film, including its very climax, occurred in the middle of blizzard or on the snow-covered fields.
It was on the day of white Christmas when Lara shot at Komarovsky, her mother's lover and her raper.
It was through a boundless snowy field while it snowing heavily that Zhivago ran away from the Red Army. Then he managed to reach Lara's studio flat, nearly dead but alive anyway. The staircase to her door was also buried in the deep snow.
Zhivago and Lara spent their last fatal days at the deserted villa of his father-in-law's in Varikino, when it was midwinter. The windowpanes were all covered with frost blooming brilliantly into geometric patterns. When Zhivago swept snow off the desk, lighted up a candle and then wrote poems at midnight, Lara awakened to the horrible sound of wolves howling and went to him to relieve herself of her fear. He embraced her gently to her comfort, going out together with her to the veranda. The white night of the arctic desert, bleached whiter by a carpet of snow and the moonlight, created a mysteriously eerie beauty. A family of wolves, attracted by the candle light shimmering through the window, disappeared in a flash at the snapping sound of his fingers.
At last, Lara rode away, leaving Zhivago alone, on a horse-drawn sledge together with Komarovsky across the infinitely vast snowfield. Lara kept looking back over her shoulder, trying not to lose sight of Zhivago, while he hurried up the second floor as she was almost nearing the horizon.
I heard that the film had been shot in Canada.
Hope I will have an opportunity some day to take a trip across the snow-covered plains of Canada. I shall try finding daffodils flowering among the snow while riding on a horse-drawn sledge as in the movie scenes--since Zhivago and Lara' love story was as beautiful as daffodils blooming covered with snow.
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