Remembering the other films of Viktor Shamirov, as well as the series “Big Second”, which I liked, I decided to watch his latest film “Lesser Evil”, 2022. True, there is data that will be not only the film, but also a series of three episodes, but I did not wait for the series, although it hints at the structure of the film, consisting
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Remembering the other films of Viktor Shamirov, as well as the series “Big Second”, which I liked, I decided to watch his latest film “Lesser Evil”, 2022. True, there is data that will be not only the film, but also a series of three episodes, but I did not wait for the series, although it hints at the structure of the film, consisting of three parts, just there it will all be more detailed. Why did you say that? Because the film is again conversational, again a little declarative, like “Big Second”, again the authors convey their thoughts through the conversations of their characters, which is understandable, because we do not see any events in the film, only conversations. And again in the focus of the relationship between people, two characters - Vika (Polina Agureeva) and Max (Alexey Rozin) are long married, two other characters - their longtime friend Pavel (Victor Dobronravov), who returned to his hometown from Moscow after a long absence, and his casual acquaintance Alice (Yulia Grevtsova), whom he brought to visit his friends, accidentally meeting her literally on the way to them. Vika and Max lead their own routine life, in which Vika lets Max look after her, literally serving her - she came from work, he puts her favorite green salad and mug in front of her, she takes it for granted, they are already used to it. Vika is an artist who has recently focused not on her work, but on teaching, he is an IT worker, works at home. Suddenly, Max informs her that he met Pasha and invited him to visit them on Saturday. With the arrival of guests, life begins to slowly take a different turn, after a while we become aware of some of the secrets of the characters. And then, after a heated discussion of one such secret by three of them, Alice, who positions herself as a truth-teller who must speak out, comes out with her proposal to solve their problem (although the solution lies on the surface, well, come on). And then events begin to develop in the light of her proposal, at the end of the decision we will not see. Well, what can I say about this movie? At first, I barely watched the first part yesterday and postponed the viewing until today. Then it got a little more interesting. Again, Alice acted as an oracle, she is generally such a modern presenter, she is younger than the rest of the characters, who spoke in this spirit: “There is no right decision ever”, telling about her decision, which entailed a complete rupture of relations with her mother, which she, however, does not regret, leading the life that she quite accidentally develops, enthusiastically engaged in the business of selling goods for sex pleasure that happened to her. This statement reminded me a little bit of the statement of the heroine in the film “Life itself” that there is no reliable storyteller. It is not known what decision the heroes will make, but no one can say in advance whether it will be right. The actors were very successful and played well. In the end, I liked the movie (almost).
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