This movie is looking very interesting today. Obviously, the festival, affecting the problems including the sexual formation of the personality (as in festival cinema like), but with the official Soviet dubbing. This fact alone in the domestic viewer can cause a lot of emotions. And yes, naked 11-year-old girls in the Soviet translation of the Swedish film — oh, this 80s.
In itself, the film about abandoned people amazingly leaves behind a bright aftertaste.
Hallstrom tries to deal with interpersonal alienation in different sections. In addition to Ingmar, who is at his lonely age, the life of his uncle and a local beauty from a glass factory and the mother of Ingmar himself is shown. From different angles, a whole layer of people is considered who, due to their age, social or personal differences, remained on their own.
The bright feeling of the film remains largely due to the soft morality shown on the example of the life of a village at a factory - people, although they live separately, still try to improve the lives of everyone who surrounds them.
Atmospheres are added by a love story between two 11-year-old characters, and inserts with Ingmar’s reflections on disasters and Laika make you think seriously about the sources of inspiration for Forrest Gump.