Eight young guys, by a strange coincidence, find a newspaper clipping, which says that there is a recruitment of inexperienced actors for theatrical production. Responding to the announcement, the guys will spend some time away from the city on the ocean, where every action is the play itself. Who is the audience?
It is frightening to even imagine what the creators of this “masterpiece” thought, asking the same question, but about their own picture. Who is the viewer of this movie? Who was it designed for? Judging by the number of ratings around the world, and there are not even 300 of them, this creation for 45 years was viewed exclusively as torture, and the few who saw it in Russian clearly could not recover and get to the keyboard to say anything about it. So consider me your lifeline.
Never, under any circumstances, watch this movie. No way at all. Do not believe what you can learn from other sources. Like Wikipedia. Who, I wonder, was smart enough to put this film in the list of adaptations of “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? And the creators were inspired by something! Are you serious? It is like comparing the cause of the same flies in these very different works. In the first case, we are talking about the decaying head of a boar killed on the hunt, left as a sacrifice to an unknown beast, in the second case, the director of Genesis went to the toilet and simply forgot to wash away the remains of his breakfast. And did someone put these two pictures on the same shelf of Golding's film adaptations? Spooky.
And if someone wants more details, then judge for yourself, the first ten minutes we see running on the beach naked teenagers, shaking their stuff, while the camera does not even try to hide their unhealthy interest in them. And then it gets worse. Throughout the film, we are constantly reminded that the clothes in this film are not the main thing, and that the viewer felt the depth of the “idea”, the guys must undress. Just like that. No reason. And, most importantly, there are no other events in the story anymore. From here comes to mind a simple and very banal conclusion: the director, and he is a screenwriter, just wanted to shoot nudity, without even trying to bring any clarity or logic to what is happening. But towards the end, for some reason, turns everything as if there is a deep philosophical meaning in all this: some “divine” interference of someone from above in the minds of the ordinary younger generation. It’s so absurd that it’s not even funny.
I am sorry for the time spent watching the film and writing this analysis, and I hope that those few who suddenly open a page of this work will close it on my own words.
Take my word for it: Never watch this movie, it’s empty and terrifying for every second.
1 out of 10