The word "ideal" is an outdated word? What conflicts and personal tragedies! So unlike ours, purely petty-mercantile. There is a fundamental confrontation between the system of people who arrange life and people who move life forward. The battle is not between people, but at the level of ideals within the consciousness of each hero. And if some of them are finally absorbed into these harbingers of the darkness of the soul - the twilight of rational self-interest (and notice how the power of this side of society unites and unites people in a kind of corporation, to monopolize the benefits - resource units according to the scientific: titles, privileges, power, money, clothes, food, prestigious women, etc. - in the film the "main" set is presented). That part of people close to this “corporation” is only slightly touched by the corruption of this existence. There is a conflict between the creator and the consumer.
Externally, this is presented as a reaction to criticism of colleagues about the loss of professional skills. And also in the form of a swamp of philistines to the attempts of victims to get out of it. Already, to our great misfortune, it has been shown that people who move society are forced to fight alone (and this is only 1973!) - everyone independently makes a decision, as well as tactics and strategy - there is no commonwealth and only their enormous intellectual and spiritual fullness help them to get out of conflict with each other and join forces in creativity and creation. But these are completely “harmonious” entities—and what was it like for the rest of us who saw the “success” of a “corporation” of rational self-interest? So it came to the end that the children in school began to conduct “business”.
The film is so beautiful that it reminds us that petty mercantilism is not the last word in life, let alone the main thing! That there are still ideals-ideas that touch on such strings of consciousness that can lift both man and society high above the present vegetation.
And how accurately the philistinism is transmitted by the actors - it is clear that such an environment is well known to them or has already been mastered. By the way, I was pleased with parophrase - the appearance of the poet through the balcony!
Great scene at the festive table. So tense, so open, so superficially unpretentious, so internally filled. And the dialogue in this particular scene reaches the heights of Chekhov in its minimalism and significance. And in general, the conversations are so literary and verified - such a smart Russian language!
And a wonderful act of emotions and their shades by actors, especially actresses and especially Irina Miroshnichenko. Here the whole palette of skill - from "holding" the face - which corresponds to the whole personality, to the constant playback of the mini movement of the head and facial expressions, from the change of feelings on the face, according to external stimuli, to making a decision "to yourself." And all this diversity simply reveals the pores of a huge tree of pleasure from viewing, and the fruits are the meanings and ideas transmitted by the authors to us, the audience.
8 out of 10