A fairy tale of ‘surplus value added’... Surplus value is the value created by the unpaid labour of the wage-worker in excess of the value of his labour-power and appropriated free of charge by the capitalist.
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Surplus value is the excess of the value produced by the labor of workers over the received or wages.
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No, not without Karl Marx, please. Scary, cumbersome epigraphs for a very cute film. One hour as one moment. A journey back four decades in a time machine. And the pleasure of contemplation. We're in the USSR in 1979. It is difficult to say where exactly on the borders of the boundless Motherland we carried. City. Perhaps these are Moscow or Leningrad suburbs - there are no landmarks, neither the Kremlin walls to you in the frame, nor the grandeur of St. Isaac's Cathedral. It is possible that this is the regional or regional center of the country. We're following a middle-aged man. He looks 35-40 years old. The editorial board of a magazine or newspaper. Not a very pleasant explanation with a bald master (however, rather "comrade"). The question of money and the beginning of the series of torments ...
Evening. The wife at the door, you got it? You didn't? Explanations, displeasure, torment, annoyance, slight quarrel as a result. Soviet existence in all its glory. If we look at half the windows of this nine-story (the presence of an elevator in the paraphernalia) anthill, the mise-en-scene will be similar to ours.
What are we doing here? Expanding Homo Soviticus? Remembering? Could it be because of an unforeseen event: repairing our car? A picnic on the side, so to speak. A time traveler? Wait, wait, wait...
Here we go. Our character, Alexander Pavlovich Reznikov, began to move, turning to a young neighbor in the hope of borrowing the necessary amount. What is it? Again? Failure? But I think we've found a way out. The solution is moved to the morning. Patience, only patience, dear viewers. We're on target. The buffoonery of this duo will be playing. It is unlikely that we could make a mistake, preparing to watch and making a choice in favor of this tape. A couple more minutes.
Okay. In those years, it was jailed. Jail. “Youth” offers “experience” in easy “cutting” money. “Experience” – he is a “wedding general”, must occasionally wave his hands, turn his head, make notes in a notebook, say a few short lines and ... everything. The rest of the youth takes over. “All genius is simple” (Leonardo da Vinci – Joseph Goebbels).
Wait, wait, wait. This is somewhat reminiscent of Ostap Bender’s presentation of Kisa Vorobyaninov, ... before you is a giant of thought, the father of Russian democracy and a person close to the emperor. And meaningful - yes, w-zhzh! - in confirmation (" Kisa and Axis were here). No, of course, the scale is somewhat different, and the accomplices do not act so harmoniously due to the polarity of views on life, but there is certainly a common one with Ilfov-Petrovsky characters. Let's smile.
And it inspired-awakened "Don't Wake a Sleeping Dog", 1991 duet Alexei Zharkov - Vladimir Soshalsky. It's fun to take money like notes.
- Do you think this is what a minister looks like?
- Calm down, master. It's about to happen.
And here is "sculpting the humpback" as in a master class. A miracle of miracles. Do you remember?
What about 1979? It's a different time. The odds of perestroika? Here, the creator levels the plot harmony to the evaluation and reflection on the characters. You mean?
I am talking about Physicists and Lyrics (hello to Boris Slutsky), technologists and humanitarians, artisans and poets, and, if you will, right-hemispheric and left-hemispheric “species” of our society. Potential difference. Integrated and implanted into our world. So different. Each camp has its followers, its defenders. Yura is the epitome of youth. Pure matter. Machine, money, rags, co-op, female success (in the sense of ladies), as an element. Its purpose is concrete, but not abstract. Lyrics (memories of poems at the institute), as well as people (students, workers) - a means to achieve the desired. His counterpart is abstraction itself, a figurative type of thinking of his credo. He is sensitive and trusting, sentimental and conscientious.
Never merge long winters and summers:
They have different habits and a completely different look.
There are no two roads on earth, this and that.
It's putting on your feet.
Solo together. They will. But harmony doesn't work. Krylov fox and crane. Look, look, look...
Time travel is coming to an end. If you are interested in the vignette, feel free to go on a trip to its source. It'll be interesting. Talk to yourself, too. My own. You know yourself better. Enjoy your visit.
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