Claim for claim It is very unpleasant when the director “raises questions” and “raises topics”, without giving answers, and this is what Balabanov is trying to do. The film shows all the “troubles of Russia”: banditry, alcoholism, prostitution, mediocrity (although some will consider it underground). That's all I know. We see outspoken freaks burning their lives, but why idealize this whole dump? They all want happiness, but they do everything to avoid this happiness.
The idea of the “bell tower of happiness” has already been raised at least in the work “Bom-bom” by Pavel Krusanov in the form of a “devil tower”.
The film from beginning to end is a pathetic pseudo-being ride on the depression of Russian despair.
Questions have been posed for a long time, and not Balabanov, only who will give the answers?
I am so sorry for the time wasted. He believed that Balabanov was one of the few directors who could “give a good movie”, but now this pillar has swung.
P.S. The soundtrack just doesn't work. You need to respect the viewer at least a little, and not press him with this sound garbage.
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