Russian postmodernism What can you expect from a modern film about Soviet Russia made with Western money? Obviously: the USSR is a prison of peoples and 'Evil Empire', the focus of sadists, maniacs, perverts, Nazis. Yes, even the Nazis. This is five kopecks in the treasury of the idea of equality between Stalinist and Hitlerite totalitarianism.
The disgusting naturalism of stabbed on the carpet of a pig, pornography, drunkenness, medical experiments on infants is designed to serve the idea of the incorrigible viciousness of the Soviet, Russian man. Needless to say, nationalism here is presented strictly from the negative side, love does not exist at all, intellectuals are all sloppy and alcoholics, and the common people are all pig-morphic cattle? After all, the film is about Soviet Russia, as it can be otherwise.
Advocates of such films may say that postmodernism has rejected the metanarratives of the past, and the artist is now free to create on any material. I would agree if the film was about Nazi Germany, modern Ukraine, colonial Britain – countries where crimes against humanity and the degeneration of rulers are obvious. And if the author is just working money ' under hanging cranberries ' then this is no longer art, but a banal, political, custom craftsmanship.
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