The film received many awards, and it is deserved. It’s hard to add or subtract, especially not when the film’s fame is sucked out of the finger. There is a really great script, directing and actors, in addition to personal history, the fate of the country is shown, so the work is of course successful.
Only two things I didn't like. The first small and purely technical - in the shown game there are fewer questions than in the real one, almost 2 times, and I did not see their distribution by complexity. The second is related to the fact that art has several functions: visual, educational, etc., so one of them is humanistic. And it means that even when art should depict something terrible and inhuman, it should still be shown with some smoothness, for example, Pushkin wrote about the uprising of Pugachev, but he did not describe in detail the scene of massacres and torture, although in life it was. So, a film, even if it's about the truth about one of the poorest countries, I think it's over-the-top with things like a baby jumping in shit. It was too much.
To top it off, India is a terrible country. After that, all the problems of Russia seem petty, we have houses, heating, windows, not everything on the table, but there is food every day, in every house there is a washing machine, a bathtub, all children go to school without thinking about where they will spend the night. And there, mass murder on the streets, burning the eyes of children, being thrown off a train on the go, being tortured by electricity is NORMA. People wash laundry in the river and put it on the ground, but why wash it? And the whole country is like this.
