Treasure Island or Dead Man's Chest? Fifteen men on the dead man's chest.
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil will bring you to the end.
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Treasure Island, 1982, dir. V. Vorobyov
If you are in a bad mood, if the sadness and longing of you finally stuck, if you do not know what it is for you to watch today on the screen and relax, have fun, “The Great Spirit” will undoubtedly be useful. For two hours, you're saved. For two hours, you are snatched from a hamari shrouded in sorrow. And then you look and the vitality will increase, and the worries will disappear by themselves. The movie will cheer you up. The movie will have a positive therapeutic effect. A sparkling comedy with optimistic tales of two nerds. Scenes, humoresque.
Like Leonid Gaidai, the one who punned funny in the characters from the screen, here and now life-giving potion. It is surprising that the poster of the tape, like a mockery of the action being played, assures the viewer of the dramatic genre. Really? Joke. It can't be. Pure water hochma, as a gift to the audience. South of Italy, Taranto. A group of robbers are "cleaning" pawnshops. The bag is full of bills. Luck. Success. Whatever. One of the three accomplices decides to "dump" colleagues. As soon as he hesitated, barely distracted, he "makes legs." What's that really about? You have to worry about your loved one... That's nice. . .
However, this philosophy is not very popular. What will they do with the rat? Shot? Crucified? Mutilated? Absolutely. You catch it first, you fools! This is how Tonino's neurons seem to swing in his head. That's how, with their commands, they spur him. Sumbure, improvisation, in his blood. Well, as they say, let's see where you go. . .
He can't do otherwise. He can't. At least crack it. Why is that? Why? Eccentric. Yes, Tonino is. What is he capable of throwing away at any moment? The devil can't figure it out.
Director Sergio Roubini bets on the charisma of his main violin in the orchestra. This map is strong enough. The actor's appearance is amazing. The crooked prick is flesh of flesh, before us. Face, facial expressions - burning coals of a shining fire. Looks like a crook and a crook. Long hair in gray hair, tightened with a ponytail behind his back. On the shoulders of a jacket with a massive collar aggravating the comic image. What is missing is a Silver Triangle on the head for a full-fledged pirate entourage. The robber of the time of Corsair robberies on the seas, suddenly came to life. Servant of "Jolly Roger", materialized in our world after 3-4 centuries. Where are you from? Have you come from Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island? If so, there can be no avoiding the bloodshed. And all this at the very beginning of the picture, all this in the setting of the plot action. Yeah, for booty, everyone's throat is ripped. For the gold doubloons, for the mast or for the ray. Fish for food, crabs for comfort... Where are you? Where'd you go? What skerries have you taken in?
Instead of the sea, the attic of one of the houses. Instead of ropes, ladders, stairs, roofs of neighboring buildings. Sit down. Lick the wounds. Shake things up and keep running... Here comes the assistant, by the way. Whether he is crazy, or bruised by life excessively. You okay? Sick? Adequate? Judging by its name, Black Deer, not quite. But there's no choice. And now in front of the viewer a pair of eccentric “heavenly” or rather “coverers” with the addition of one another.
The cocktail is offered by the author. There is female love, deceitfulness and corrupt love, in the serving of dishes. Fatherhood, worrying about children and dreaming about Sharm el-Sheikh. Pursuits with pistol fire and Indian battle cries of readiness to scalp the enemy.
Two hours on the same roof. It's a little tiring, but society has picked up what it needs. And the director, meanwhile, is the performer of the main party. It is to him that the “Great Spirit” must be revealed. Then what? Will he see? Growing up? Humanize? Who knows?
A low-budget picture that leaves a pleasant impression. The movie where the box office makes the actor's charisma. Something similar was from Tony Servillo's "Gorbachev" (2010). The same pleasure, the same aftertaste.
7 out of 10