Ya obyavlyau vam voynu

06 September 2020

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The main character in the Soviet way is flawless in everything, up to an exemplary moral appearance - a concentrated man who suddenly descended from a poster about the builders of communism (“alive” such in the 80s hardly anyone saw) and fell into the era after developed socialism, where co-operators and racketeers for some reason began instead of communism. It is interesting that such a hero appeared even in 1990 (the year of the release of the film) - there was still an opinion that everything was fine with the Soviet system, in general, and if it were not for bribes in storage rooms, not soft-bodied policemen, not living hotel administrators ... Mayakovsky expressed this best in his immortal poem about Lenin: "... the extraction of coal and ore is expanding - and next to this, of course, there are many, many different rubbish and nonsense: you get tired of fighting back and chewing back ... a lot of different scoundrels ..." The hero, who defeated the bandits, needed to become the boss himself to arrange everything properly.

Life has shown that this is not the problem. The movie looks tortured. There is no desire to revise it – there are many others that reflect the “perestroika” period in the USSR more adequately. And shot with great skill.

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