A good film, real problems do not turn into problems of adolescence, which any adult, especially a teacher, helps to solve with a soulful conversation. The hero himself copes and so grows up and grows up. And adults are shown here sometimes ironically, but with respect, that is, multifaceted, as in life.
History itself, as if created by some basic textbook on drama. Formally, everything is in its place, but on an extremely primitive level. Secondary characters are flat talking dummies, practicing the minimum so that the main character could go his way. The main character speaks to the viewer completely all the key moments in a voiceover, as if the target audience is 6+. The very path of the protagonist has such a template and linear structure that, even without knowing anything about the basics of drama, you can predict what and when should happen.
However, this very simple story is wrapped in an unusually atmospheric visual shell. How realistic it is (to put it bluntly) you don’t even want to think, but just enjoy the views of the light-drenched south, in which ordinary 15-year-olds try to organize their lives exactly as teenagers did before them, and will do after.
The fact that the action was moved to 1982 and the passion of the generation appointed skateboard, only adds to the atmosphere, emphasizing how immutable human nature and how much formal external differences universal concept of “the wrong times”, which is always not the same, and for everyone.
As a result, the tape leaves conflicting feelings. The development of the plot is frankly boring to observe, but the visual component has undoubtedly succeeded and attracts attention and as a visual attraction to pay attention to the tape is undeniably worth it.
7 out of 10
The main character of the picture is the Soviet schoolboy Artem Belov. He's 15. The same age when yesterday you were a child, and today you are not an adult, but not a small one.
And in this last summer of his childhood, everything falls on Artem at once: betrayal of his father, first love, friendship and quarrels. Artem has one outlet - a roller board.
So in the 1980s. called skateboard, which just began to learn Soviet teenagers. And Artem needs to win dangerous street competitions.
"Asphalt Sun" is warm as illuminated film, and familiar as the hits of "Songs," in the mood of the film. At the very beginning, we understand that the finale will be good, and the path to it is full of adventures and awkward situations.
The film will be interesting for both teenagers and nostalgic parents. He's light, kind and a little naive.
Picturesque seaside landscapes add originality to the picture.
Visually, the picture is stylized under film. The images are slightly grainy and in warm tones.
The main characters are teenagers who want to live like adults.
Director Ilya Khotinenko showed the era of the USSR, when Brezhnev died. Teenager Artem Belov (played by Fadeev) learns the world through youthful maximalism. Soviet teenagers dreamed about everything Western, about gum, about rock music, about skateboarding, about jeans. Western culture for Soviet teenagers was super-perfect. Artem's fascination with the roller board becomes an outlet for a couple of boyish maximalism. Director Ilya Khotinenko created from Artem Belov a collective image of all Soviet children, for whom foreign rock music and the realization of their ambitions were important. It's a great teenage drama. Street competitions are a way to convey the influence of Western pop culture on Soviet kids. This is a film about a boy’s protest against his growing up, and the knowledge of the world around him through a rollerboard.
What can a Soviet teenager dream of? Only about Western music, about Western skateboard culture, about dancing, about love. Very beautifully directed by Ilya Khotinenko showed a love triangle - Artem Belov, Admiralskaya (played by Kaftanova), Karpukhina (played by Alina Babak). Unshared feelings were beautifully shown by the director. Such teenage dramas are needed by the Russian audience. Modern Russian viewers at least recognize the word “non-returner”. Western culture in the USSR as opposed to adolescent maximalism. A generation of Soviet teenagers thought about rock music, gum, jeans. Soviet teenagers of the eighties, who have you become?
I liked the film because the main characters are teenagers who want to live like adults. Teenager Artem learns the world through friendship, skateboard and unspoken protest to his mother.
Screenwriter Nastya Kuznetsova wrote a chic story about teenagers of the USSR. This is a great and exciting teenage drama.
After the premiere of the film ' Asphalt Sun' on Q&A director Ilya Khotinenko was asked many standard questions: 'Why did you choose a plot about teenagers?', 'What is the secret of your movie?' - everyone understands perfectly well that it is difficult to answer this seriously. But among the questions... category B, there was one rather interesting one: '. '.
Skate people? The action takes place in the USSR, not in England. So the level of 'cool' counterculture skaters is not at all the same. People nostalgic for the '80s? You don't even have to comment.
We need to take a broader look, and for that it is worth remembering that we live in a world of post-over-inside-meta-irony. In a world where meme motifs mutate every second and merge into new memes and hypermemes. In a world of impersonal social media, fake bloggers and produced success stories. And modern cinema, of course, plays on this, and any such game only further accelerates the simulacra train.
It is at this point in your life that the film 'Asphalt Sun' may appear. Simple, warm, sincere, kind, beautiful. Literally that first breath of sea air at the airport, when you arrive at the sea.
But there's one big subtlety here. If the last time you watched ' simple, warm...' the film not so long ago, then 'Asphalt Sun' probably will be a banal repetition. There are hundreds and thousands of such stories. No, they're not, but almost that. And if you take that into account, the film is... 6/10. But I’m lucky to get a little tired of a movie that thinks it’s smart and/or wants to rape your psyche.
8 out of 10
Mom, we're adults (c)
Each generation needs its own “Courier” with themes, actors and a time when something could be changed.
Artem is experiencing the betrayal of his father, he goes abroad and asks for asylum, the first love to win which he and his friend Mitka collect their own rollerboard and are going to participate in competitions on the road of death.
Shooted “Asphalt Sun” by Ilya Khotinenko, finding himself in the plot, he tells the generational story of the challenge to adults, talks about love and friendship and creates on the screen what other films about sports, live history, a cool picture did not succeed and engenders in the audience an unkillable desire to find a board or another leisure option and completely plunge into it.
Nastya Kuznetsova (“Chiki”) wrote “Asphalt Sun” and this is a little strange, because it is the female part of the story (Mother and classmate Artem) that are underwritten, it is about them that most questions and desires remain, somehow find out what happened next. The operator of the boyish story was Anna Rozhetskaya (“Kidney”), she managed to capture the spirit of the early 80s and create tension on the screen and tell in detail about the preparation of the heroes for the tournament.
The parents of the main character were played by Polina Agureeva ("Euphoria") and Oleg Yagodin ("Angels of the Revolution"), and the main characters, which are worth looking at, Artem Fadeev ("What Men Talk About"), David Melkonyan ("The Legend of Kolovrat"), Anfisa Kaftanov ("Porcelain House"), Alina Babak ("Pischeblock") and made his debut in "Asphalt Sun" the son of Sergei Bodroy Jr. Alexander.
"Asphalt Sun" is a movie wait, something that happens next. The heroes, already together, will get to the 90s, which “break” them much stronger and tougher than the 80s. And while they have a few years to enjoy the fact that they live by the sea, children are endlessly devoted to their boards, on which their lives depend, and adults will try to start all over again and although they understand that they need to leave everything as it is. Farmers are ready to offer them everything that can help to be like everyone else, and love... The main thing is to make the right choice and then it will help, restart the meaning of their existence and every day will begin with new colors.