"Blind choice - he is the right one" Alexander Mindadze does not focus on the ominous word “Chernobyl” and generally avoids geographical and chronological certainty.
Man-made disasters have occurred and will continue to occur in different parts of the world for very different reasons. But is the knowledge of the tangled tangle of causes so valuable, even if we were in the very epicenter of the event?
A lot depends on the party worker Valery, who already knows about the reactor. The main character of the film is endowed with any power, he understands the seriousness of the situation and he has a choice. And this choice is not even duty and duty, it brightly, as in war, illuminates life and death. “Every minute... right now,” Valery says slowly. Between rescuing (not only your own) from the death zone and buying new shoes, the choice seems obvious. And what if the disaster has no place in the Saturday consciousness of the layman, clinging suddenly to the past of the drummer in VIA, then someone’s wedding?
What would you save in the first place from a fire? This question, for some reason, is present in interviews with poorly trained journalists. But according to Mindadze, the answer may be the most disheartening. “Blind choice is the right one,” someone in the film throws a subtle phrase.
One writer called the symbol of the XX century Disneyland with looking behind him barbed wire Gulag. So Valery from time to time comes off the Saturday carousel and with animal horror looks into the smoke on the other side of the river. And later, a heated consciousness will unite these two incompatibility in the final frames of the picture.
8 out of 10
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