Yes, hyperbolization and conscious absurdization can (and should, in fact, if you approach the picture as a pure comedy) surprise, amuse and deliver purely visually humorous sensations, causing certain sensations of the superficial plane of perception. But no, it's not that simple in this movie. And I’m not even talking about the theme of the national enslavement of Europe by the so-called “foreigners”, which is especially painfully perceived and voiced for some reason by the Russian audience, and which is actually covered in the film.
No, there is much else in the picture: a broader theme of a person’s subjective perception of people who are unlike him, many people, echoing the ability to find ways of communicating with them, finding a common language for mutual and fruitful agreement; and the themes of a person’s mental sensitivity towards his relatives and relatives; and the themes of the strange – but no less important for society – friction of social and political activists, no matter what direction; and the themes of the harm of stagnation both in the personal and individual sphere of a particular person, and in the socio-cultural life of society. In general, in the film you can actually see — if you want, of course — a lot, a lot that makes you think. Moreover, this is much shown not by the cloth, formal and boring cinematic language of boring morals, but through cheerful buffoonery, burlesque, which, of course, is a little distracting, on the one hand, but also makes it easier to perceive, on the other.
8 out of 10
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