“I always bring a video camera with me.”
From the program "The Director Himself"
First of all, I would like to express my attitude towards amateur cinema. Among such films there are interesting, and sometimes even truly masterpieces. But no less often comes across a blunt curve on the camera, such as “Life in a tumble”. Not exactly amateur cinema, considering the cast, but looking at the end result, which in my personal opinion is the worst film in the history of cinema, it becomes clear that the creators have not moved so far from "amateurism." Did the creators of the film “Zero” take the case seriously or repeated the “achievements”? Kokshenova and his friends I will tell in my review.
And the film begins with a few young people standing in the entrance talking. And then comes up, perhaps, one of the main claims to the whole film. I don't understand what they're saying. And it's not that some of them speak indistinctly. The problem is that they speak quietly, often standing far from the camera, which, due to its technical characteristics, is much better at coping with loud sounds that drown out the already quiet speech of the characters. The solution to this problem is quite simple.
But back to the movie. The guys continue to stand in the entrance, talk about something, and then go to ride in the subway. At this point, another film problem emerges. Music. I have always believed that the film should only be the music of the country where it was shot. I’m not talking about classical music, I’m talking about contemporary music. In my opinion, this is complete nonsense code characters go past the classic Soviet houses of the 70s, and against the background of all this sounds a song in English.
Meanwhile, the heroes rolled into the subway and decided to go home. That's where the murders start. To guess about the personality of a maniac is not work. He commits murders right under the windows, and leaves the corpses in plain sight. This continues for a while. Heroes walk from the entrance to the entrance. A maniac kills people and burys them in the snow for the sake of decency.
Now for the pluses. Perhaps the main thing is the fact that the filmmakers approached the matter seriously and blunt curve on camera, as a result, we do not see. What we’re seeing is a mid-range amateur film, with a director and a couple of actors having some potential that I hope will be realized properly. For all its shortcomings, Zero is a very interesting project, which is interesting to see for the sake of general development.
5 out of 10