Petya is a local fool who thinks he is a traffic cop and stops everyone. He doesn't care about his rank, he just does his job because he thinks he's the smartest. It's one storyline. And the second parallels this story and tells about the fate of the rest of the city.
The most memorable thing about the film is the final scene. Well, the last 20 minutes the prisoner showed up. Why the first part of the film was made is not clear. Why are we being shown this? To show the character of the main character? It is hardly clear that someone who runs with a wooden gun is not quite normal. To show the life of a single city in 1953? I don’t think we even know how people lived there. I don't understand. And the ending really, despite all this turned out to be normal, which is rare in such films.
The main male role of Petit was performed by aspiring actor Egor Pavlov. This would be his first film role, by the way, very good. With his task he coped well, but still his hero I do not particularly like by nature, so there is a corresponding impression.
In general, it was not clear. On the one hand, against the background of the rest of today’s Russian films looks more or less good, but here, in fact, a meaningless film. It is worth watching only for the sake of one ending, well, for fans of clever festival cinema, too, I think, will do. But the ordinary, ordinary viewer is better not to watch this “miracle”.
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