There is such an expression - 'make iron while hot' and it is best understood, apparently, only people engaged in the film industry. As a rule, it was from their desire ' to make money' a pattern was revealed, designated by the same Deadpool as ' the law of the sequel' - a continuation either worse than the original, or exactly the same. So, despite a two-year hiatus, the creators of the original series ' In the cage ' failed to repeat their success. To put it mildly.
By the way, I watched the series for the first time in the summer, so I did not have to wait long for the new series. I can imagine how disappointed the fans of the first part were.
First of all, I would like ' to praise' a rich, but idiotic scenario. Why did many viewers scold the original? For the so-called “Black Noir” & #39; although the project was a firmly removed Russian noir in the most classical sense of style & #39;noir' despite the sports orientation of the tape. Very fascinating, fascinating with an excellent visual, which makes it impossible to break away from the screen, as a result of which the entire series could be watched in 1-2 days.
In the sequel, only a gloomy but stylish visual remained. The creators adopted the principle of "#39; take what was in the first part, and do more"' as a result of which the project really turned into a black woman - with tears, snot, vodka and drugs mixed. The atmosphere of despondency and despair, fierce hopelessness presses on the viewer from the very first frames. The visual, which is beautiful for nothing, is terribly depressing. The right mood for watching such films, but what is happening on the screen is very depressing.
Heroes as if no conclusions were drawn from the events of the first season. All their development, which was clearly observed in the final, was nullified. They regressed to the state in which they were at the beginning of history, or even regressed. For example, the conflict between father and son, seemingly exhausted, flares up on far-fetched occasions again - although in the finale of the first season it was not observed. The relationship between a major daughter and a wealthy but irresponsible mother is not even in a dead end, but in the abyss. The most cute and pretty heroine of the aspiring actress Zepur Brutyan, who inspired respect for her inner core, willpower and unbroken character, in the sequel turned into a hunted victim, always aching, interfering with alcohol with drugs and amusing herself with promiscuous sex. From the behavior of this recently sweet girl, whom I wanted to fall in love, now naturally sick, and her actions cause disgust. The heroine was naturally spoiled, unhappy Brutyan even has nothing to play there. And those lesbian innuendoes, why are they? Is it because being gay has become fashionable? And why did the heroine have only one scene with Priluchny in the 4th episode, if in the first season the chemistry between the actors was obvious? But there was a new romantic line in the hero Priluchny with not particularly impressive (neither appearance nor talent) actress Vera Kincina - and very curved and poorly spelled out, standing out in the plot is not particularly high-quality script ugly seam in the middle of a flat surface, with a bunch of sticking threads. If you pull one, all the tissue will fall apart. By the way, the line stupidly removed from the plot Agatha Muciniece.
Casting. The chic secondary hero, a drug dealer in a bright performance of Daniil Vorobyov, apparently, was replaced by a star ' Internov' Ilya Glinnikov - and, with all the efforts of Glinnikov, the replacement is unequal. Unfortunately, the intern is still very far away from Vorobyov, and even though his hero, in general, is an interesting character, Vorobyov’s charisma and potential are clearly lacking. But the new antagonist from the honored artist Rosa Khayrullina turned out anywhere! A gloomy, dead-pale grandmother who does not take off her black glasses and gloves - by her one appearance it is clear that this woman with a very terrible past and great opportunities is not worth contacting her. She smells of some mystical fear, involuntarily amazed by the reverence with which her numerous retinue of a whole army of thugs treats her. Perhaps only such a terrible woman could give birth to a villain from the first season. The second find was Gela Meskhi - a talented actor, more familiar in positive images - here depicts the head of the guard of the elderly bandit, and in a negative role looks more interesting than in past roles of good guys. His verbose, coldly restrained killer and assistant, completely devoid of all emotions - one of the most interesting and creepy images of the sequel, and I would not be surprised if this character will present the most surprises.
As for the rest of the characters, Zepyur Brutyan from series to series depicts suffering, from which her heroine, like, has already got rid of in the first season. Here we add irresponsible and unbridled behavior - and her heroine begins to irritate no less than Alain Mikhailova, deprived of acting talent, who became the main on-screen pathner of the Armenian beauty in the second season. Priluchny again portrays himself from all his past projects at the same time - gloomy and driven himself into a dead end & #39; the last hero of the action movie & #39; (in the first season, his hero at least developed and was more interesting). The same can be said about Vladimir Epifantsev. Well, Ekaterina Malikova was not surprised by anything.
The essence of the second season and further events can be predicted from the first four episodes. We can safely say that the low-grade script regressed all the main characters, saturated with unnecessary and unsuccessfully pasted storylines, and the resulting ' Frankenstein's monster' finally turned an interesting project into a typical ' black' And if the series is worth watching because of anything, it is because of the acting of Rosa Khairulina and her henchman. The season itself clearly on spectator points from a level below the average (4 out of 10) will not rise, but taking into account the merits of the first part, the project receives legal ones.
6 out of 10
A movie (series) for once. Like 'White Bim Black Ear' as 'Dogville' as 'Slicing the Waves' as few other terrible and brilliant paintings, to view which for the second time simply no strength of mind and perseverance.
The picture is true in every detail, without excesses and equivocals for good or evil. There are boundaries: absolutely positive and absolutely negative character - one on each side, and between them everything is human, ambiguous, gray. And even they were corrected for humanity: negative - a positive ending to the story with the mother, and positive - terrible revenge. And no one will be completely dirty or completely clean. The absolute has no place in real life.
Thanks to the serial format, the viewer has respite, the gloom does not drag out hopelessly, several parallel lines dilute the overall mud, although each of them can compete in gravity.
It’s not that depressing, it’s just about living somewhere where most people hope not to be and where a minority hopes to get out. I hope not the other way around.
I will not be clever, look for hidden meanings, look for psycho-philosophical overtones. Let's be clear. . .
It's a great show. Great actors. True for some reason Priluchny turned off the entire rich actor’s arsenal and left one emotion and one facial expression. Great soundtrack, staging fights, fights. It's cool.
But a hopeless depressant, no positive hero except a raped girl and a sick guy. Everything sucks. Dirt, drugs, booze, toss, debauchery. You can watch and hang yourself.
I don’t know what motives and ideas the director might have. Why film it and show it? Very painful realization of creative impulses.
For me, the opening of the film is actor Daniel Vorobyov! The drug dealer's aesthete played brilliantly. That's brilliant. I'll watch his other films.
The series has a atmosphere so dense that it can be cut with a knife. What is it? Well, ooh...
Now I'm thinking. You can, of course, answer briefly: about the harsh world of semi-criminal fights without rules, but this will be a description of only one facet of the story, because equally it is a series about family (about very different families), and revenge, and even a dream (and someone else will say that it is about hopelessness, darkness and horror of the reality around us).
It seems to me that in this case, our TV series really jumped above their heads, they managed to create a truly textured and stylish (oh yes, finally!) work that does not play with the viewer in giveaways. It is filled with dirt, meat, mat, drugs, sex, cruelty and violence. There is almost no light in it, only fog, dimmed lights of nightclubs or dim light of unsettled apartments. This series is not comfortable to watch, because it does not chew the story, in some moments the line of the narrative is outlined with a dotted line, and the characters seem to have no past, just appearing inside the world created by the authors, but at the same time they all have a character that is clearly read and gives the opportunity to imagine their past, and someone – and the future.
The first couple of episodes... can’t find a word... let it be – surprises, and the last two episodes can even be said to be admired (especially that same revenge – wah!). I really liked this series, there is something genuine about it. I am glad that it was shot in Russia.
If anyone is going to watch, just in case, I warn you: fights, drugs, mate, sex and violence are waiting for you in an evil, unpleasant and sometimes nasty world. Does this not deter you from watching? Then go! This is at least a noteworthy curious experiment, as well as a whole story, which consists of disparate and multi-format pieces.
Drugs, fights & nbsp; no rules and & nbsp; very, very much mate!
Good day, my dear friends! I will start my review with the fact that this series I began to watch 80% because of the actor Pavel Priluchny, and he here acts not only as the main actor, but also one of the creators of the idea of the series and producer. The first thing that caught my eye is that at the beginning of each episode we see a quote from the Gospel, and you know, although I do not consider myself a deeply religious person, even I found it blasphemous in such a black-haired series, built on drugs, masturbation, blood, grayness and mate, which practically all the characters spew from themselves, the mention of God.
The whole film is, as I said, one solid black woman, in which to find the plot and at least some meaning you still need to try very hard! I have great sympathy for Pavel Priluchny, it is difficult to deny that there is charisma, charm and further down the list, but if in the well-known "Major" Paul played the actual Major, here he plays the cattle, descended to the bottom, as well as all the characters of this extremely gloomy film. Absolutely every episode, every episode is accompanied by a mat, and for no reason ... just like that, and not such a small city of Kaliningrad is shown as some kind of purgatory of hell on Earth. I am sure that there are no people in the world who never and under no circumstances swear, such people, no matter how highly educated and cultured they consider themselves, simply do not exist! It all depends on the circumstances and the situation, but I still believe that this should not sound from the screen, especially in such an unreasonably large number. I honestly had a feeling that the actors deliberately pressed themselves with swear words, even if the situation did not require it, because they were told to do so, because “we are shooting an extremely honest film without embellishment!”, but a little too much with realism, so I even laughed, although the plot itself does not imply laughter. I read that this series is planned to be shown on TV in addition to the Internet, but first it will still have to be cleaned somehow, since it is impossible to so desperately swear on our television channels. I wonder how the director will do that. If he just dullly cuts the mat or “knocks” it, then a good half of the series will disappear, and the dialogues of the characters will consist of one solid “kick”.
It's called "In the Cage," and I thought it was a figurative expression at first, but no, it turns out to be a particular place where people fight for money and no rules. The first two episodes were very difficult for me, because I was desperate to get the meaning of what was happening on the screen and could not. The main character Sergey Evdokimov, nicknamed Volchok (Pavel Priluchny) leaves prison and returns to his native city, where he is not too joyful reception, since his mother finally drank, and the former girlfriend Olga (who is played by the real wife of Pavel Priluchny Agag Muceniece) has long been waiting for him. It seems that the only person who is happy to see Sergey is his younger brother Zhenya (but he also seems to have some serious head problems). At the same time, Volchka’s father Alexander Evdokimov, nicknamed Dok, returned to his hometown, who fled Moscow from very serious problems. The relationship between a father and an adult son is far from rosy and we understand this from the first second of their meeting. But in all this thorny, slurred plot of the story, I saw very little meaning, and I overcame my desire not to look further, still hoped that the plot would “run away.” After the fourth series, I was gradually drawn... It even seemed to me that the actors themselves were a little carried away by the reversal of events, so even swearing became less, or that the first two series simply broke all records of non-normative vocabulary.
I couldn’t help but notice that the series was shot in very gray, rainy, depressing tones, the abundance of river fog and the decaying city just caught up with the yearning. But there is dissonance. Perhaps such gray places can be found in our country, but then they will definitely not have underground fights, sweepstakes and expensive parks. Alcohol, drugs, mate, rapists, underground fights, the hero of Priluchny, who just got out of prison, where he spent seven years, but with perfectly white teeth, as if he regularly visited the dentist in prison - these are the main components of this series.
The project is shot in an American, I would even say Scandinavian style in fashionable style, when in a small town everything is necessarily bad and you feel complete doom. The sound is terrible, the speech of the characters too, they seem to deliberately swallow words, talk through their teeth, so the creators allegedly try to create the most realistic dialogues so that the viewer certainly believes in them. Nonsense, but fashionable. The cast is worthy, except for the above mentioned Pavel Priluchny, very characteristic villains performed by Arthur Vahi and Daniil Vorobyov, Laura Keosayan, Ekaterina Malikova and others. The only one who left me indifferent again was Agatha Muceniece. The way she played Olga, she could play any statistician at all without acting education, I do not even know, not in the first film I, desperately trying to see in Agatha at least some signs of acting, and can not! Perhaps someone likes her, but for me, the actress Agatha is no, and always does not play! In addition to the fact that she is the real wife of Pavel Priluchny, she did not force me to pay attention to her!
The age category of the series is 18+, but I think it is mainly due to the abundance of mate, but in general the age limit can be lowered to 16+, I think it will be useful for young people to see some points.
Summarizing the above, I recommend the series to anyone with strong nerves and who is ready to witness the harsh truth of life somewhere beyond the line where none of us would ever want to be. Perhaps with the gloom of the narrative a little too much, but the essence of the film is still there, but to see it, you need to overcome the first four episodes, then it will be better!
Thank you for listening to my review!
I watched the first episode and realized that the film fully falls within the definition of Noir style in cinema, which is defined in Wikipedia as:
It is characterized by a criminal plot, a dark atmosphere of cynical fatalism and pessimism, the blurring of the line between hero and antihero, the relative realism of the action and the dark coverage of scenes, usually night. Women usually act as deceitful characters who cannot be trusted; on the other hand, they are the ones who motivate the male protagonists.
The natural habitat of heroes not burdened by moral principles is the big maze city in general and its criminal sidelines in particular. The action often takes place in bars, motels, entertainment establishments, underground gambling halls.
The water motif: rain, humid shining streets, docks, moorings - frequent details in the film noir.
A complex, confusing chronology of action, creating the impression of “lost in time”, disorientation.
Well, this is so as not to reveal the plot.
Removed from the point of view of directing for five.
Players are also in the top five.
A little puzzled at first masturbation through the word, which is still a novelty for the series, but for the truthfulness of perception of this style, I think it is normal.
As the unforgettable Hoi sang:
- With motherhood we were born, with motherhood and will die.
Drugs and other attributes of the life of people who are not burdened with moral principles, immediately raise the bar of the rating to at least 18, and I think it is better to put all 21, because I am sure that because of the way it is presented, people with a fragile psyche can perceive this as a guide to action.
So here's the conclusion. People with an immature psyche or individuals with a clean, undisturbed perception of life are categorically forbidden to watch.