Honestly, the first third of the film I was frankly bored, but then still interested and watched until the end. Like many, I don’t think it’s a sequel, but a different movie. Even the profession of the main character Vitaly (Y. Lyubimov) is different - if in the first film he was a translator, then here he is kind of engaged in the
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Honestly, the first third of the film I was frankly bored, but then still interested and watched until the end. Like many, I don’t think it’s a sequel, but a different movie. Even the profession of the main character Vitaly (Y. Lyubimov) is different - if in the first film he was a translator, then here he is kind of engaged in the construction business, and even then he was no longer a boy, he was 30 years old, of course, over the past 10 years he could retrain, which only does not happen now. His wife Christina, who is also in her 20s, settled on the farm, although she is interested in, and perhaps once studied, psychology. Their family life seems to be quite prosperous, but very depressing, neither of them looks happy. He's trying to find better orders for himself, she's just looking for herself, how all this happens, we learn mostly from flashbacks. Not the last role in the fate of both will play Vitaly’s friend psychologist Pavel (E. Tsyganov) – Vitaly, he will slip a more suitable, in his opinion, life partner, not suited to him, Christina to some extent will stimulate to do something. If you listen to him, he was right, believing that Vitaly and Kristina were at different stages of their development, by the way, and the age difference between them is decent, because when they met, Vitaly was a grown man, and Christina was a high school student. It is possible that the new partner is better suited to Vitaly, but all this happened against the background of quite strong and difficult changes in life, especially in Christina’s life. He may also be right that Christina and he are stronger, but it turns out that he was purely manipulative and selfish. Yes, Christina after all sorts of vicissitudes in the end in the financial sense got on her feet, but the psychologist himself does not look very great, quite sloppy and unshaven, and the one with whom Christina lives together looks very fantastic, there was no one who would shelter her, except for a guest worker, all friends turned out to be pseudo-friends. It remains only to be glad that the heroine did not break from everything that fell on her head. In this film, the main character is Christina. On reflection, I decided that some truth of life, which sometimes seems strange, may well be present in all this. I realized that this is a film about those people, about that generation that I already know very poorly, often the film looks exactly like any foreign film about the same topic - and people are similar, dress the same, even household habits and housing are similar, and even alcohol drink the same and the same. It’s sad to see the “professionalism” of all these hipsters pretending to work, with the show-off reigning alongside stupidity over everything. And Christina starts to do something when she is kicked out of this environment and finds herself in a completely seemingly hopeless position. Although both the main characters seem to have succeeded, but you do not feel much joy for them, there is a rather sad feeling. The film is quite good, although a bit long (2 hours 15 m), but you can see it. The cast is also not bad, remembered the young actor Nikita Sanayev in the role of a completely mean, arrogant and immoral major Artem. Lyubimov and Gypsies were not particularly impressed, and Olerinskaya looked quite good in the role of Christina.