A movie I didn’t want to watch for almost 20 years. Because it shows what I saw all my childhood from the window, at school, on the way out of it and everywhere. Fucking beggar bandit Russia at the turn of the century, in which banditry was raised into a cult and at the same time was such a norm that they did not even try to fight it.
And then I looked, did I feel like I was avoiding him? Not even once. The film did not surprise me and did not open my eyes to anything, it is completely normal. Except that karmic scenes about the future of secondary characters seemed an interesting find. In the rest - a completely ordinary movie about what it was outlined, purely for fans of this topic. And there were a lot of fans: as we know, then at zero a bunch of scum recognized themselves in these characters, and BMW elevated to the status of a truly boyish car. It is noteworthy that the author did not seem to be going to heroize bandits and honestly showed their unprofessionalism, stupidity and cowardice, but the bullish viewer of that time did not notice and considered the film anthem of gangster romance. Funny.
To put aside the morality and talk about the integrity of the work, I did not like that the film showed almost no urban bandits in their natural habitat – they are driven out of the city at the very beginning, and then they climb further and further into the wilderness, finally losing touch with what they should be. I understand that the film had a very limited budget, so it was probably the only way to make it. But I'm a spectator, and I didn't see that movie, I saw something about the village. Worst of the movie: The shop robbery scene that culminates is not filmed at all! We know it's happening, but we don't see it.
In general, this is a film that comes out on one actor’s game. Which has produced an additional corrosive effect on culture in its worst times.
Complement. Watched a review of the film from one former bandit from the 90s, who served time, tied up and leads his channel on the Pipe. In the half-hour video, he smashed the film like a professor of two. In short: absolutely all the characters behave unprofessionally, bull and go to hell when it was absolutely unnecessary. Four bandits are shown, who exist as if in a vacuum, do not know anyone, they do not have a roof, they climb to solve their questions, do not talk to anyone normally, yell, drive a burnt car and live as if in a surreal war. But it’s from those who were beaten and abused by these bandits, not from those who understand what the film is about. In reality, one bandit from another car would not take away, because it is lawlessness, and you can answer for it, and on the arrow, the leaders of these gangs, who should have known each other for a long time, would calmly discuss matters. The only one the four would have a real problem with is their own ploughman, who might want to take them out because they are extremely problematic. They were shown in the area of 30-nick, but such unprofessional bulls, according to the reviewer, did not live to such an age.
Previously, the rating put 5 points as just meaningless film, but after new information it is just 2 points. It is impossible to give a higher rating to an author who did not even understand and did not ask anyone what he was shooting at all.