The vicissitudes of love If you omit the associations and comparison of this picture with the true masterpiece of Ryazanov, then closing your eyes to various kinds of flaws, you can safely say that such a movie can be watched. Another question is to watch who and when, but here the interested viewer, who may have experienced in life the situation brought to the title of the picture, will decide for himself how curious he is to look at the love story of a shy representative of office plankton and a harsh namra-chief.
The bright characters of Ryazanov, as well as sparkling humor, were replaced by modern actors trying to play out the vicissitudes of love in the office life of a business company. The story was good, beautiful, but not funny. The main mistake of the film is in its genre, and perhaps in a very poorly developed humorous part. Although not tempted by good examples of Western and Soviet comedies, the viewer may find something amusing and funny in these attempts to squeeze a smile. But pretending to be a comedy film leaves a good aftertaste of melodrama, in which the place of humor is sacrificed by the stringing of intrigues.
The creators give the finale of the Ryazan comedy with a kiss scene in the car, accompanied by the phrase “so this novel could have ended thirty years ago”. Then surprisingly platitudes collapse, and the plot acquires real interest, explaining the modern scheme of eliminating competitors. True, this is not much use, with all the romance - the central villains remain unpunished, and how good a stepmother will be the heroine for the two daughters of the main character is also a very big question. But to stretch the plot timing was considered unnecessary, ignoring the side storylines, very well complemented the main story as development.
Casting in the film causes very contradictory feelings. With secondary characters, a lot came out well: good girls, great Pavel Volya in an interesting role, bright Okhlobystin teaching the essence and basics of business sharks, but the more important the hero - the more boring or sloppy he is served. About the replay of Basharov and Zavorotnyuk to chew excessively, they paint almost every project. Zelensky then wildly overplays, then on the contrary, weakly mumbles under his nose without the slightest emotionality. The character turns out not to be a modest employee, but some aspiring actor trying on masks - so he decided to give out a drunken woman, here philosophizes in the rain, here embarrassingly gives a report to the boss ... That, in turn, also missed the image. Well, what is this mound?! The creators went the way of the series “Don’t be born beautiful”, exposing at first some squeezed teacher of mathematics, and then trying to glamorize her into a beautiful business woman. Khodchenkova hardly fits that other image, but play the main characters love stories no matter what happens.
On the screen there is more domestic melodrama than romantic comedy. Although the authors struggle to cross this fine line. The story of office love with a set of final intrigues is possible, flying without much boredom, but the humor in the film pumped to the full program. In general, there is a feeling that KVNRs need to give out roles with improvisation, for a more vivid manifestation of their talent, rather than being forced to get used to an image that they do not succeed too much.
The script is verified according to the American template and is even filled almost entirely with foreign music. True, the main themes of the film “From Dusk to Dawn” from Tito & Tarantula do not fit into such a movie at all, however, taking Western samples on the technical part of our films should be beneficial. And although the caricature and funny comedy from the modern “Office Romance” did not work, it gives the viewer a good love story, and love films are always in demand and warm hearts. So that such a movie can safely watch, the main thing is not to calculate with expectations.
5 IZ 10
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