About questions and answers I liked the movie, but not immediately. I don’t like to watch the life of oligarchs – they live and live for themselves.
So I got into the story as soon as my daughter got lost. Predictably, it was expected that Dad would come to his senses and look for her, and the pamper would run away, then surely get into trouble on her unprepared head. . .
But different stories of different people, told simply, unpretentiously and somewhere too mundanely primitive – from life as it is, from their characters, from their choices, from their level of awareness of themselves and the world around them – quickly dragged me into this plot.
The film is long, somewhere even meditative, because you watch it completely calmly and detached - without empathizing with any of the characters represented in it for real. And you realize that the main question of the film is the search for each person himself. All roads, here, lead to Goa. But they could lead to any other place on Earth. India is just a beautiful, fabulous entourage, exotic and spicy, often frankly repulsive and simply unpleasant. Here you can live, here you can die, here you can leave forever and never return - sometimes it is disgusting and insignificant. India changes people if they want to, and even if they are unconsciously ready. Coming here, many are looking for easy, carefree ways that could not open in Russia. Instead, all the sisters get earrings. Everyone gets paid, sooner or later. Pan or gone. . .
What is Homeland? You think about that sacramental question when you see the title of the movie again. And when you look at this question does not arise. Everything that happened could be in Russia itself - not the essence of the place, the essence of the meaning.
And that’s what you start looking for inside yourself when the movie becomes a memory. That’s what I liked about the movie.
Stop again, ponder, dig inside yourself, plunder the peace of your own soul, if it is present at all, or try to find it by asking yourself. One me. Honestly, without trying to hide or forget. . .
It's worth it.
8 out of 10
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