Reviews on movie Strangers of Patience (3)

I got the idea, and I didn't like it. If you want to reveal the topic of pathological love, then you will need very hard tools. Cruelty, fear, anger, and violence on both sides can be transformed into pathological love. Pathological is her diagnosis. And her prognosis is poor. Here, they want to show us such a light variant, with a minimum of violence and justifying beauty. Lavronenko with good eyes. Would that hit you? - All by myself. And if you don't smear the floor, maybe it's not violence, maybe it's love. It seemed to me that the author himself believes in such a possibility that he is not joking at all.
It's not even about hitting you or just restricting your movement. Deprivation of free will is the most cruel violence when you lose the right to be a person, when you are considered a property, a thing. There is no love between owner and thing. Only a free person can be loved. If someone thinks otherwise, he is a psychopath, and stay away from him.
There are few events in the film, but a lot of beauty, and this corresponds to the task of justifying moronism without extremism. The author seems to be looking for an excuse for vice in beauty. In my opinion, a harmful idea, as well as the idea of the coexistence of love and violence. She's dangerous at home. Even if it's just authorial irresponsibility, it's not the kind of ideas we need right now. The movie seemed boring. The ending was outrageous.

4 out of 10

Take yourself together, daughter of a samurai
Pull yourself together
Become quiet sounds from edge to edge
Pull yourself together, daughter of a samurai. Pull yourself together
From edge to edge, the sounds become quiet.

An artist needs inspiration to create like air. So, fresh impressions should be streamed. Fountain! Waterfall! Do not water the flower - it will wither, dry completely. Where do you get myrrh for the soul? Everywhere! Communication, ideas, imagination, and also ... - the muse is necessary. And then, enthusiasm for novelty overrides logic, common sense, rationality. Recklessness comes to the fore. A slave crawls at his feet looking for favor. But the moment of satiety is fleeting. His time is short. Presumption is boring. And, a new muse... necessary. So the artists walk - from the muse to the muse, from the diva to the maiden. Forever! “Wanders of patience” is such a trap. “Wanders of patience” is a clouding of the mind in stupor. Hardly to "sado-maso" in peak flight. With weird quirks. A world of two in exploration.

In The Forgotten Flute Melody (1987), the situation was comical.
There's nothing between us, absolutely nothing. I'm just taking her corner.
- Don't talk about this to anyone but me, okay? To live with a young, beautiful woman you love and not to live with her is a perversion!
We have a dramatic thriller by confusing and unravelling his relationship with her!
Of course, the shop was a shock. No wonder. Shopa didn't make a sound. But how eloquent was it at the same time... So I want to be filled with delight - ah, Shop Shop Shop. What you are, after all, Shopa! Wordless, shy, silent, but eloquence, complete. Even in excess. From delight to hatred, I had to go through the film and return to enthusiasm. The role required it. All without words. It's just on the record. Shop!

Unfortunately, her partner disappointed her. Fake obvious from the first shot. I didn't believe the image. Which Lavronenko photographer? What "artist" is he? “Art historian” is Sergey Zverev, for example. Well, Valentin Yudashkin or Vyacheslav Zaitsev as a last resort. He is far from Alexander Vasiliev, as well as Nikas Safronov. It would be frankly ridiculous in red pants, raspberry jackets, with a bow scarf, in panties... Agreed? Here! Everything in me seemed to rebel against the imposed. I don't believe it!
What else caused that? I think that early, high-quality works in the cinema are clearly texture – “The Return” (2003), “Exile” (2007), “Liquidation” (2007). Is that where the lead cloud came from? Nope? He's a man with a faded gaze, so I'd probably say he is. In this case, “extinct” does not mean lifeless. Rather devoid of boyish illusions, saturated, impatient. Baggage baggage on his way, filled to the top. Love, family, divorce, death – everything has already happened. It's made of knots and tendons... They're still there, too.

And all this drama around the plot goes to hell. Under your feet. Crumbles to dust. Of course, for the viewer, accustomed to say the Indian cinema, here a lot will seem close, dear, believable. But the lubricant of serial melodrama is very clear. This is exacerbated by earlier, more qualitative “episodes” of the domestic production of similarities in “stories”. Remember, for example, “Hostage” (1990) by Sergei Ashkenazi or “Prison romance” (1993) by Yevgeny Tatarsky. Algis Matulionis and Alexander Abdulov could reverently expand their ranks dedicating "knighthood" for the skill of Konstantin Lavronenko, but the director, unfortunately, gave him a less respectable place. However, Alexandra Zakharova and Marina Neyolova are hardly ready to accept Maya Shop for such a “maid of honor”.
A movie for an unassuming audience. Lovers of melodramas in cup after cup, in mug after mug. It's just something to swallow. Pity. That's too bad.
5 out of 10

I was lucky to see the film “Wanders of patience” in the framework of the film festival “Let’s live”. I was lucky, because few movies I watched go, so to speak, to the piggy bank of my loved ones. This is the case.

So, in order: the film is holistic and harmonious from A to Z.
The script is trivialized. All the hooks are behind the strings. No random details. Every detail is justified and has its implementation. The finale is unexpected and also completely justified. Interesting author and directorial findings. Smart and accurate dialogue.

Wonderful acting. The roles of the main characters were performed by talented Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko and aspiring Polish actress Maya Shopa, who has already received a number of awards for best female role in this film. And it's no accident. Impeccable performance of the deaf-mute heroine, the creation of the inner movement of the character. Without saying a single word, the actress perfectly managed to convey the whole range of feelings that she experienced during the ongoing story.

I want to talk about the role of the dog. The nature and behavior of which exactly corresponds to the author’s idea. Which in turn adds another bonus to the director’s work. After all, it is known that with animals on the site, as with children, it is very difficult to work.
Also, I want to mention the operator’s work. Very beautiful film, beautiful plans, interesting angles and camera movement. It's absolutely perfect. I forced myself to follow the movement of the camera by force of will, but I honestly managed to do this rarely, which is a sign of the highest skill of the operator and of course the director of the editing. But what struck most, usually (this is how our eyesight is arranged), when we look at a color picture - a photo or a movie, and then suddenly there is a c / b, it immediately catches the eye, you immediately notice this substitution. In this film, the photographer takes black and white photos and the chromaticity changes all the time, but in some incomprehensible way it happens so organically that you almost do not notice the change in chromaticity. In my opinion, this is the main achievement of the operator and colorists. Some people in the audience said it felt like the whole movie was black and white, and I felt like the whole movie was color. Somehow (I don’t know if it was designed this way or if this effect happened by chance, but I think that there are no accidents in cinema and especially in such a major director as Aleniki), black and white photographs turned out to be part of the color world, well, let’s say we are surrounded in color life by black and white objects and things. Because they're black or white, we don't perceive them as an image. Well, if I am not quite clear, it remains only for everyone to personally look at the picture and understand what I mean. )

Of course, I really want to tell the idea of the film, reveal the author’s idea and explain the author’s, director’s statement, the super-task, since there was a clear misunderstanding of the picture by some viewers in the hall, but I cannot do this, for obvious reasons.

Summarizing all of the above, I want to note that the film did not just take place, there was a big movie. In my opinion, the picture deserves the highest awards and, of course, the audience’s attention. Watch a good movie!