You can always find meaning in this life, find something to exist for! Few of us at one stage of life think about what will happen when the next stage comes. Few people in school seriously think about what he will do after graduation. As well as studying at the university, one does not think about what fate awaits him beyond the threshold of this educational institution. Same in life. Few of us, being young or at least not old, think about our old age. He thinks about what will happen to him when he crosses a certain border, beyond which he is waiting not even for a new stage of life, but a new life.
Someone crossing this line fall into an endless yearning that the past is left behind. And they would like to return it, but it is not possible. And someone, although he does not cease to yearn for the past, still finds the strength to live in the present. Finds the strength to find a straw, which he clings to, and which allows him not to drown in a sea of disappointment, bitterness and longing. It is about such a person, a person who considered it necessary to stay afloat further, and we are talking in the new film of the wonderful Rostov film director Ruslan Kechedzhyan.
Oleg Nikolayevich, who has been living in a boarding school for pensioners N2 for two and a half years, molds figures and thereby maintains his existence, not wanting to put up with the fate of people who actually put an end to themselves, getting into a boarding school and finding that old age came somehow unexpectedly. At some point, Oleg Nikolaevich comes up with the idea to create his new work, hands. Yeah, hands. Two hands joined together. Seems like that's all. But this work is embedded by the author, Oleg Nikolaevich, the meaning that the hands are a symbol of the family. A symbol of something warm, gentle and pleasant. And in the course of the narrative, interspersed with shots of both the boarding school itself and the species of nature, Oleg Nikolaevich finishes his work.
As one of his boarding school acquaintances said, “It’s better to be rusty than rusty.” And it really is. It is better to do something, work, feel useful and necessary, do what you love, even if it takes the last strength, than to give up and accept your fate and destiny. Oleg Nikolaevich did not give up. And through the efforts of both himself and people working in the boarding school, he was able to improve his health, but he was almost blind at the time of getting into the boarding school and his right hand was numb, and continue to do what he loved!
I think that was the message of this decent, well-shot tape, with successfully selected and superimposed on the video. At whatever stage a person is, even at the stage of his old age, suddenly declared the right to life of a person, you still need to cling to something and in no case fade away. As, unfortunately, this is done by most people living in such institutions, who got there by the will of fate.
Before the start of the show, which I was lucky enough to visit, the director of the film Ruslan Kechedzhiyan said that he wanted to call his film “No Country for Old Men”, but he was already ahead of the Coen brothers and received an Oscar for his film. Strictly speaking, the Coens did not call their tape that. And they called it No Country for Old Men, repeating the title of the book that formed the basis of their work. The name translates as “No Country for Old People.” “No Country for Old Men” is the title given to the film by our film distributors.
But that's not really what I wanted to mention. How exactly that title would fit the film. This is especially acute in the scene where we are shown Oleg Nikolayevich looking at images of young people on an advertising poster. First the image ... then his face ... and it is at this moment that it is felt that our modern society really does not care about the elderly. And in such conditions, when others do not care about you, you must force yourself to make yourself care about yourself!
Oleg Nikolaevich was able to do it. Oleg Nikolayevich was able not to give up and in an atmosphere of indifference in society to those who are no longer useful from this society, he was able not to give up hope and find application. I think the example of such people should inspire anyone at any age. And for this, for the appearance of such an example to us, the director of the film and all the people who worked on it, I want to say a special thank you!