Mathematics as the highest form of communication The Ukrainian two-season series “Shwabra” of Mamas Film Prodaction and STB Series did not collect many ratings and reviews in the Russian box office. However, it is quite lookable and even in some way informative.
The design of the series is attractive win-win simplicity.
In its center is an incomplete family of a single cop with a teenage son; the teacher of the son is a genius, and therefore perceived by normal people a little sluggish, a mathematician with a crippled psyche and a scientific career; a young ment-operative; a forensic expert is a general’s daughter; an unexpressed outwardly and plot-oriented police chief.
Depending on the plot of each series, this design is overgrown with additional characters.
Casting. He's good, all the important characters are on point. Anna Shvabrina is a Russian serial star of medium size, but the well-known and beloved Alexandra Child. Nikolai Vershinin is also quite successful and recognizable Russian artist Anton Batyrev. Vitya Vershinin is the son of the main character - Ivan Tomashev, a young Ukrainian actor, who is gaining popularity from role to role. The remaining roles were given to the pool of Ukrainian artists of serial projects Mamas and STB - Anna Kuzina, Lyudmila Zagorskaya and others. For casting plus to the rating.
The story. There is a serial killer in the town of N. And so, to the delight of the police, a fresh corpse from the park can be successfully dumped on a strange math teacher who was not in time nearby. But the lady is not a mistake, and sitting in the cell, writing all the walls with formulas, overnight not only convincingly proves his innocence, but even predicts, sorry, calculates the date of the next murder.
Thus begins the cooperation of the mathematical genius Anna Shvabrina and police captain Nikolai Vershinin. Over the course of two seasons, Vershinin’s group with the help of Shvabrina will solve the case of a serial killer, calculate the cyber robbers of the bank, save “a place that does not exist, in which all information is hidden at all” (c), go on the trail of an international criminal.
Building a plot around mathematical conclusions is an undoubted highlight of the series. Firstly, it is not beaten, and secondly, informative, since the texts pronounced by the main character and her pupil – the captain’s son, also very capable of mathematics young man, quite professional.
The love lines of the main characters are built without vulgarity and even touching. Which is an undoubted plus against the background of vulgarity overflowing series. For mathematics and love – a couple of pluses.
The picture. This serial work could be safely anticipated by an introduction: in a certain European state. The effort on Europeanism permeates the entire video series, ranging from intricate, non-existent car numbers, the emblem of the police department, the use of eagles / tails of a two-euro coin in the draw to the unthinkable design interiors of two-storey apartments of ordinary police captains and school teachers. All this is so unnatural for ordinary life even in a completely real European country (who has been and lived there, he will agree) that transfers the plot to a certain fantastic space and time, respectively, and emotions become some kind of “celluloid”, not self-made. I thought to take away the point, but then decided that fantasy is not forbidden.
Location. Here the heart of the Soviet man trembled and stirred in anguish. Modern summer Kiev is unusually good, especially taken from the copter. Here and completely new areas of modern high-rise buildings made of glass and concrete, and painfully familiar Soviet dominants, and the bitter heritage of all the capitals of the Soviet "half-life" - the first high-rises with turrets-pencils. Particular nostalgia is caused by the urban landscapes of old districts. More than once put the film on pause and considered such a familiar and already unrecognizable Kiev. Who knows if they will be able to see him in the near future? For the selection and shooting of locations without a doubt added a couple of points.
The second season ends with the unambiguous promise of a third season. But it was in a past life. Probably, everyone who imbued with the fate of Koli Vershinin and Ani Shvabrina will have to think out their future fate on their own.