Crazy love The romantic almanac “Short Circuit” tells five completely different and in some ways even unique stories, not similar to each other, but connected by one common idea. Five author’s views, five visions of the situation and five different thoughts, diligently conveyed to the perception of the viewer, who understands the very theme of the almanac and the raised essence of the problems in each story. Generally, I want to say in the introduction and conclusion, and much more want to write specifically about each short film.
The first short, with a catchy and rich title “Shame”, is a rather peculiar plot with a huge amount of irony and ridicule of stereotypes. Boris Khlebnikov demonstrates cartoon and cartoon characters, approaching the task with irony. Unknowing the purpose of the youth, trying to somehow survive in a cruel world without rules, the classic gopnik, constantly squatting and chewing seeds, a separate courtyard in some remote and inconspicuous area in the spirit of “Crazy Help”, and it is to this film that the first novel is close in spirit. No wonder the director is the same. The protagonist is too different for understanding and perception - on the outside he is alone, but on the inside he is completely different. His absurd and incomprehensible way of achieving the goal, the very desire to convey the idea, essence and thought, forces to take risks and ahead, leading to different consequences. And love is everywhere, even in the mud and madness that is happening around. It is not for nothing that there is a saying that “beats, therefore loves”, not for nothing that every mother explains to her daughter that the boy who pulled her hurt for a pigtail is actually not an evil hooligan, but a stupid man in love, who does not understand how to express his feelings differently and attracts attention sometimes with absurd stupidity that causes only pain. The ridicule of the existing types was extremely easy to perceive, and each share of irony is visible as vividly as serious ideas. It is not for nothing that the first introductory short film has such a loud name. It is a very interesting thing, done in a very original way.
The second point follows the novel “To Feel” from the screenwriter of the second “Boomer” and the director of “Euphoria”, Ivan Vyrypayev, tells about a Polish tourist who came to Moscow. The short film is made in a mocumentary style, and the documentary filming is supplied with various chips, such as pressing pauses, turning off, rewinding, inserted dialogues of discussion, since in fact the plot tells about watching the film of the heroine and her young man, on returning home. It was not without irony that the first words uttered during the call to the homeland were: “Airplanes fly here, and tanks drive through the streets.” This is how foreigners see Moscow, albeit not all, but the short film does not claim any objectivity and general unshakable truth. The key here is the appearance of a male character in the “just from Adler” type. A kind of street “romeo” tells, under the guise of absolute nonsense and nonsense, really a few clever phrases, trying to convey that rational knowledge of the world is absurd. It is not possible to grasp everything by scientific method and by reason. We live in chaos and chaos around us. To learn to be human, we need to know how to love. Be able to feel and feel emotions. Very clever novel in a very ironic-stupid wrapper. You don’t have to understand it, you have to feel it!
The third short film is a sensual, emotional and rather cruel novel “Urgent repair” from Peter Buslov, who put both parts of “Boomer”. The repertoire of torment, experience and cruelty is preserved to the fullest extent, as is the visual style and handwriting of the director. Perhaps the most powerful novel of all. The action takes place in a dark chamber, where the main character, stunningly played by Ivan Dobronravov of the shoemaker, dreams of meeting a girl, from the bark to see through the shabby glass of the basement windows could only see beautiful legs, shoed in beautiful white shoes. How amazing was played on the table a fairy tale of shoes, as actors, how beautifully swept the spirit of romance and despair, with the strain of tension closer to the end of the story. The work turned out so flawless and sensual that you literally live a small alternative life in this story of sad love and romantic tragedy of circumstances. Here you can praise every angle and every frame, the story is directly shown visually, in actions and actions, and not spoken in the language of the text. And this merit of the director here plays a key role. The most expressive production of the entire almanac, grabbing the soul and leaving a strong mark. Bravo! Brilliant! Masterpiece!
The fourth novel, this time from Alexei Herman Jr., is called Kim and tells about the difficult fate of a prisoner of a psychiatric hospital in a remote place from civilization. The hardest thing of all, distinguished by its atmosphere of doom. Gray depressive tones, heavy clouds envelop everything that is happening, and sharp threads of rain pain mercilessly penetrate every detail of a small plot. A sad story that can touch and make you worry. Decent work that will definitely find its viewer.
And finally, the final in the almanac is the novella by Kirill Serebrennikov “Kiss of a shrimp”. Such a crazy name only aggravates the essence of the name of the almanac itself as a whole, and the idea that only a thread passed on the other, the previous four short films here bursts out of real madness. The novella is an elegant curtsey to Roger Corman and Ed Wood, embodying the frenzy of thrash aesthetics to its fullest. Singing freaks, gay kisses, female eroticism, dousing blood and a bacchanalia of the absurd, acting as the main character in a shrimp costume, to become monsters and monsters in the films of Ed Wood. A real firework of bright emotions and positive charge, serious notes are felt in the hilarious production. The short film is still about love, like the whole almanac, and this time mad love reaches its climax, becoming naive and absurd to the point of ugliness. Even all the cruelty shown here is extremely comical, and the demonstration of the naked female body brightens up the aversion to kissing between men, presenting the finale more romantic and beautiful, not devoid of the inherent elements of classic thrash handicrafts. Simultaneous irony over the genre, a successful banter, and at the same time an expression of respect. Love is everywhere. The love between order and chaos, the love between life and death, there are no boundaries for love either in terms of sex or in terms of self-expression of feelings. Absolutely crazy thing, bringing to a short circuit and giving a storm of positive emotions and the desire to applaud for all this buffoon on the screen. Just a wonderful novel to complete an equally beautiful almanac.
In integrity, “Short circuit” looks very successful production, with competent ordinal placement of short films and their submission. All five stories are unique, all five leave a strong impression and the work of each of the directors of this project was truly successful! The brightest representative of the modern Russian art house, with the right approach to the implementation of very smart ideas and an abundance of embedded meaning. The film is absolutely admirable!
9 OF 10
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