Oblomov in Belarusian The main character deliberately leaves far from civilization, starts a large farm and tries to improve the life of a farmer. However, he does not succeed, because after starting any business, he never finishes it. He has more than eight dozen sheep, but they wander around uncontrollably all day, because Semyon does not particularly strive to look after them. It has a large yard, only it is constantly drowned in mud. He collects bottles in the district, doing something like a good deed for others, and dumps a glass container with a huge pile in his yard, without even thinking about deliberately taking it out. Even the children, and he has two (and very small), he does not look after. What about the hunger strike? For some reason, the final for me was decided almost immediately. Here you have Oblomov in Belarusian. And sort of psychology is quite Oblomov’s: “I’m not disturbing anyone, why does someone want something from me?” In this regard, the confrontation with the local administration for permanent accounts looks both comical and quite dramatic at the same time.
The one I feel most sorry for in this situation is Irina, the wife of Semyon Dyachka. The camera keeps catching her at work. She washes clothes or plays with children. Cooking food or washing floors. On the one hand, quite a patriarchal family - in a farm in isolation from strangers, a woman is constantly at work, but the man lies on the bed, motivating that he is very tired. Really, why? Fighting judges trying to challenge well-deserved fines? He's also wandering around, filming everything carefully for his YouTube channel, instead of actually doing business. He argues with his wife, not even wanting to bring firewood for heating. I don’t know who, but after Irina’s answer to the fact that children crawl on the cold floor: “I don’t care, I’m very tired,” my attitude towards Semyon completely deteriorated. I always feel sorry for those who did not participate in the choice of adults, but suffer first.
Perhaps this was not the idea of the director Andrey Kutila (although I think it is). But from three dimensions: “King of the Mountain” – Semyon Dyachka, the director and Irina herself – my choice is obvious. And even the final shots with the final summary of the court of pity for the hero I do not cause. To live according to the law of "eagle or tails" in everything relying only on fate, and in nothing on yourself - this is our Belarusian "as if!".
In fact, the film is very necessary: someone in it will find a piece of himself, someone will think and want to change something. Movies like this one are just for that. It is a pity that in the “King of the Mountain” there is no musical background that would allow you to feel the situation better. On the other hand, the absence of the same accompaniment increases the sense of belonging, as if we ourselves are living with them - the family of Semyon Djacka - those four dramatic days.
7 out of 10