So a movie for a very good (for 2019) book I read the book right after it came out and watched the movie as soon as it came out. It's been revised a second time. . .
Boring and sad about the movie... Dull, empty, meaningless. Although Glukhovsky himself wrote the script, the film is great, in terms of involvement in the plot and characters, loses the book in all respects. Something important, essential is missing. A pathetic attempt at what it should have been. I don't know why. Either the plot itself is quite primitive, or to remove clearly and interestingly what we are more accustomed to reading and writing ourselves, in our own phones, is completely unrealistic for real.
Glukhovsky is the author of the word. He knows how to be relevant, he knows how to capture his reader, immerse him with his head in events and intricacies of conversations and thoughts. The film is flat and unambiguous. The main characters are linear and predictable, although the implication is the opposite. . .
I will note that, at one time, Glukhovsky in social networks, I glimpsed, immediately after the book was published, some trailers for the future film, in my opinion, with other actors (maybe I am mistaken, I can not remember exactly), but I remember how I liked these shootings then: they were accurate, consistent, action-packed, atmospheric in full. Even if it was a cut of this particular film, it was made much more successfully than what was presented in the end. Everything fell somewhere, disappeared, disappeared. . .
To my regret. . .
About actors... I liked Yankovsky, didn't like Petrov. And, in no way, Asmus - the main character in the book looked much more subtle, graceful and touching than this character presented in the film. What I refer to the obsession with erotic scenes in the authors of the picture with the subsidence of the genuine dramatic component of a good acting, which makes the film real.
Alas, alas. ..
But overall, the swing was not bad. Because. . .
7 out of 10
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