Love? Explain to me how this is possible: you are looking for a film about schoolchildren of the 81st year, where everything seems to be without surprises (nudes, drugs, black women and so on), you find, you watch... And everything seems to be great: the idea is wonderful (first love, first experiences, first difficulties, first tragedy), and the actors are excellent (they are pleasant to watch, they play great), and the songs are wonderful (and “We’ll have it differently”, in my opinion, is generally great), and it looks easy and the atmosphere of those years feels, but you see the credits, and in the soul, except for disappointment, there is nothing. I suspect it's all the fault of the crude script... And now everything in order.
I downloaded the film in anticipation of seeing something like “You Never Dreamed,” “The Prank,” or even “Valentine and Valentine.” I desperately wanted to see how a brisk, lively, kind, talented, sincere and absolutely charming boy with a bang falling over his eyes from When I’m a Giant, becoming a little older, finally decided to confess his love to the girl. I saw something indistinct.
Andrey. I have no complaints against M. Efremov. He's playing great, but who is he? Andrei Loskutov is not a lover Roma Lavochkin, who cuts off phones, records his voice so that the beloved, locked up by her parents, does not go mad from separation, writes a letter every day. This is not a romantic Igor Grushko, ready to fight when they insult your beloved girl and write songs about her, which the whole class listens with bated breath. This is not the same Ephraim Petya, wearing a photo of “the same” on his belt, secretly writing poetry to her and sleeping at the box office to buy tickets to the theater. He’s just a selfish cocksucker with no idea of responsibility or, judging by his actions, logic. Returning with a friend from the store, he chooses an average girl in the crowd, who is quite suitable for the role of a life partner and then everything according to plan: a walk on a tram, a trip to Leningrad, a rented apartment, a stamp in a passport and independent life. The hero, like, declares that he does not want platitudes and cliches, but at the same time burrows into them with his head. There is no outburst or love here. And love, too. It seems that the young man just decided to play adult, but the rules of the game did not have time to read, there was no time. This, of course, will not jump out of the window, or fight, or go against everyone and everything, if only together. Andrey does not even have the courage to openly come to Natasha’s parents and say that they are going to get married.
You will remember with what trepidation Petya Kopeykin looks at Goroshkina and waits for her to pronounce the name of her beloved. And his eyes are full of regret and disappointment when he hears the truth. The eyes of a lover, indecisive boy who trusts his feelings only to paper, which was rejected. And if Kopeikin wanted to hug his shoulders and say that everything will still be fine, then Andrei at the end wants to ask: “Well, have you played?” Now at least you will learn without adventure.
Natasha. Heroine Mashnoy to become her failed husband. She doesn't feel anything for him. First, she makes plans, writes ads for renting an apartment, and after a few minutes cheerfully, as written, mints not her words about the ship and the captain. There are three or four similar scenes in the film.
In short, the motives of the heroes remain unclear to me. And like the ultimate quintessence, the final scene. “Our song is good, start over.”
In conclusion, I want to say: this film is highlighted on the page of M. Efremov as one of the best with his participation. Maybe it is, but... I think everyone has completely undeservedly forgotten the movie Blackmailer. Here is his hero, also a high school student, uncompromising, principled, talented causes respect.