Personally, I (without claims to objectivism) liked the picture in the first place - well, except for the excellent, very reliable play of the older Mikkelsen (just surprisingly resembling Dzerzhinsky, then Yankovsky) and the extremely suitable soundtrack - this is its multi-sense, so much different in it can be seen (if desired, of course): and the general absurdistic comedy - including through certain images and deeds of the characters; and the simple private external tragedy of the position of a lonely person with the subsequent sudden acquisition of a plausibility of what is a very nuance of the person, but not gaining a lot of his/herophysimiologically from the social situation, but from the other side of which he/herophysiology, but also from the fact, which he/herophysiologically suggests a rather a rather a rather nuance of his/herophysiologically nuance, but from his/herophysiologically nuance, which he/herophysiologically.
And the ambiguity of this film I saw (perhaps mistakenly) both in the purely formal side - in the mixture of signs of different genres - and comedy, and tragedy, and fiction, and a kind of everyday ultra-realistic life description, and in some lightness, superficiality of presentation. That is, the authors invested a certain number of meanings and subsenses in their picture – look at, they say, the viewer, but all somehow light strokes marked, only delineating the contours and leaving the viewer to think up what he, the viewer, saw in this film. By the way, precisely because the authors give the viewer the opportunity to think, rather than driving him into the predetermined framework of the author’s ideas, the ambiguity of “The Watcher” is very good, yes. Of the shortcomings of the film, I will highlight, perhaps, its predictability: you perfectly understand what and how will happen next. Is this the fault of the filmmakers? I don’t know, it’s hard to say, quite possibly, it was thought that the plot unpredictability did not kill the ideological content, the message of its creators, did not distract the viewer.
7 out of 10
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