It's done. How gratifying that after an obscure era of cinema, mountains of dead and chewed for several seasons of empty scripts and a million, no, a billion pretentious but empty shots, we can see Strange Angel. If we think of monkeys and typewriters, we can imagine the scale of this probability and our luck, alas, without passing a mountain of attempts. But a holiday is a holiday, and, with such things, one should congratulate, but not everyday, but as if reborn. Strangely, the world has not yet realized the merits of what was presented to it simply as a routine, as a morning mail. Strangely, the world does not even know what way several huge multi-layer industries and trends have gone to make the “Strange Angel” appear on the interweaving. However, there are not enough words to describe this tip of the iceberg, which decided to appear on the surface. It is the future, through the mouth of the past, that speaks to us in the present. Look, people, this is a rare, rare phenomenon, a great gift, the price of which has long and forever gone to infinity. Odes, of course, you can sing endlessly, but it is better to see once.
I will not sin with retellings and names, the plot is simple and brilliant - this is all that can be said about it, succinctly (and, fortunately, to the end) presses morally strong people, but this is what they need, isn't it? The main idea sweeps beautifully and medicinally, except that it is slightly rounded in sharp corners so that the world changes, and not falls apart, which may well be. The questions and thoughts that are put at the forefront are serious and relevant (halleluia!), although old as the world, but finally free people answer them, so let the morally strong people who have written above doubt the value, but this is what they need, isn’t it?
Directing (and here I write cinematography, acting, artistic, musical vision - since here it is really a combined height, which, in fact, is absolutely natural for a masterpiece) is elegant and accurate. The tone taken from the first series to the last is a masterfully executed combination that is worthy of the old masters. The era and its feeling were passed on, but did not eat or cycle, thank God, the language does not turn to offend this "historic" series. In general, the genre does not want to write - in my opinion, it already imposes a certain isolation and back to art. The visual and audio components are amazing. They do not interfere with the director’s excessive independence and therefore the script is only emphasized or outlined by them. Simply, did without meaningless miracle plans from above and tired violin symphonies “under the rapid” (once a chip, now a scourge of cinema), which is a victory, at least against the background of schushers like heavy. Actors harmoniously combine, give mathematically correct formulas of behavior, the psychology of images rhymes with a necklace of precious stones, which is turned under the sun.
Trying to give an assessment of all this, I will try to avoid the incredibly important opinion that I read everywhere from attentive viewers, so I will say that it is not for me to evaluate this graceful work, I will just write that I really liked it. There was and still is a sense of handmade, lovingly carved, brilliantly and without too much pity brushing aside all the unnecessary lies and illusion of cinema that was before. I write here as a boy at night in the yard, surrounded by houses with sleeping people, shouts for someone to come out and see the moon covered by a shadow.
People, this is new. This is a real victory for cinema, the world, the thinking and free man. The fact that this has happened is already proof of serious and great changes. My pure and frank congratulations to everyone, let everything come true.
If I could talk to the creators: it happens that a lunar eclipse sees a two-three night drunks and is horrified by him. But it does not become less important or less beautiful.