Only his thoughts and not his external circumstances make him unhappy or happy. By controlling his thoughts, he controls his happiness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In my opinion, the film is about selfishness first and only then about a large-scale conflict-confrontation. Served subtly and deeply at the same time, with a brush by Romm in the French way of presenting the plot. The same lighting solutions and tonality of the storyline narrative. There's the subject of philistinism. Well-opened.
“A fool cannot be uninteresting; a fool is a social phenomenon. Without them the picture of the world would be incomplete. The fool, above all, expresses the essence of his epoch. A wise man can be ahead of an age and away from it, but with a fool this does not happen. The world of fools is extremely diverse, a foreign fool is not the same as in our country. A fool of science has nothing to do with an administrative fool. What a wonderful fool we have! Strong! Reliable! He sits like a mushroom in his chair. Try it, get up to him! A wise man can make mistakes, a fool can never make mistakes.
Ilya Kulikov - in the film he is performed by Innocent Smoktunovsky.
A film with its ideology and a deep sense of humanity. There is a certain cut, images and motivation. The open ending is absolutely natural in the film. He's truthful and understandable. A little parable notes.
“Do not leave the room; consider yourself blown away.
What's more interesting in a wall and a chair?
Why get out of where you’ll be back tonight?
What are you doing, and what are you doing?
Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky
I recommend it. Great movie.🙏