Post-Soviet quinoa with unambiguous hints To begin a review of the oddities that are stuffed with the film “Detonator”, should be with the exposure of a misunderstanding that needs to be corrected by the compilers of the bibliography and film portfolio of writer Sergei Anatolyevich Ivanov on some sites (including this).
The children's writer and creator of the Plastilin Man from the famous cartoon "Last year's snow fell" has no relation to this film due to the fact that the screenwriter of the film was Sergey Petrovich Ivanov, the actor who played the Grasshopper in the film "Only old men go into battle", according to the catalog of the site "Cinema-Theater".
Now about a movie with satire on the verge of delirium. It looks like a disgusting parody of Shakhnazarov’s film City of Zero.
It all begins in the 1980s, with the interrogation of KGB captain Ram Borisovich Nameless Chukchi, who brought to the special services as a gift a black opaque levitating pyramid in the air that fell from the sky as a meteorite.
Studies of the strange object are fruitless, and, despite the warnings of the scientist involved in it, Ram inserts a screwdriver into the pyramid.
Further, the official synopsis is cunning, as it shows a continuous stream of post-apocalyptic delirium associated with the main character, where Ram encounters a whole psychic citadel formed by a black pyramid with a screwdriver, after extracting which the KGB captain eventually turns out to be in the 1990s.
It is hard to believe that Ram moved through space and time with the help of a black pyramid. We can assume that the main character was walking down the street from the New Year masquerade, carrying a screwdriver, and drank a bottle of something into which the Chukcha shaman mixed something that plunged the KGB captain into a trance until the morning. Then the flow of delirium begins with the moment Ram approaches the pyramid.
Now about the plot cliches, of which there is not one. The citadel of diverse psychopaths remotely resembles globalistic Rome, and its head is Romulus, and all together with the main character looks like a “black” banter according to the legend of the founding of Ancient Rome (hence it is explainable why the bikers of the psychic citadel popular football club with the anti-Roman name “Spartacus”). Getting there Ram is clearly similar to moving to Plyuk the main characters of “Kin-Dza-Dzy”, who pressed the wrong button of the remote movement in space, but the performer of the main role Batov gets a parody of the role of Lyubshin.
Man-eaters were clearly borrowed from Shakhnazarov’s “City of Zero”, where there was a cake in the form of the head of the main character, and involuntarily think about the political technology of the “Overton window” of the disgusting and disgusting.
And the black pyramid, from which all sorts of things fall, probably embodying Western humanitarian aid or just mass consumer goods from the West ... was clearly inspired by the cartoon “Bear”, where there was the same black cube, throwing out edibles and having all the hallmarks of a time machine.
The place of detonation of the pyramid hints that it is a kind of analogue of the manna generator for the local inhabitants of the desert. Ancient Egyptians playing drums, by the way, are present among the crazies of the citadel. Is it not their forces that the pyramid unfolded the local psychic citadel? - but the filmmakers do not explain anything.
Some of those who reviewed the film saw a parody of the modern Russian Federation in the global world, which the main character, the Chekist, does not like so much that he wants to return to the USSR, for which it was necessary to pull a screwdriver out of the pyramid (hence the phenomenon of a ghostly cloud over the Moscow Luzhniki in the form of a citadel of Roma is understandable - the authors of the film mocked not only ancient Rome, but also over the idea of Moscow's "third Rome". Did the filmmakers purposely make such a finale as a kind of act of architectural exorcism in relation to Roman heritage from the first to the third?
But how disgusting quinoad with claims and hints of the future, evidenced by the participation (apparently, because of the need of the 1990s) Millar in the role of Chukchi (unfortunately, he failed in his life to play Suvorov), Sadalsky in the role of sheriff, Kuravlev in the roles of an old chameleon and a Japanese, Samokhin in the role of a hang-glider and Farada in the role of a cannibalist-partachist.
By the way, the role of Roma was performed by the director of the film. It is not known what he assumed about the film and further film career, but an amazing fact: he did not shoot very many films in the future after “Detonator”.
Separately note the music of the film. It was made quite qualitatively, but throughout the film, the obsessive paraphrase to the famous song “Steppe and steppe around” sounds constantly. It is unknown why the son of the singer of the sixties Okudzhava, whom Sadalsky once mentioned in connection with the “Detonator”, needed to mock this song throughout the film, but after this film his film composition ended, barely beginning in this movie.
They say that in the scenery of the film was shot a video for “Faina” – the song of the group “Na-na”, so that, after watching the clip, oddly enough, you will get a fairly clear idea of the location of the film. From the “Detonator” took some scenes of the clip. From there, from the "Detonator", took up in "Fain" and Sadalsky, apparently, decided to earn extra money, since the shooting takes place in the same pavilions. So if you've ever seen a clip of "Faina" and wondered why it's so... a little fucked up, here's the answer: the whole reason "Detonator"!
However, there is a positive side to this film. This film can be clearly recommended strongly to those who still believe in and profess stories about the “holy 90’s” and related fictional idylls, in order to remove from use and mention harmful illusions in relation to the past, present and future, since in favor of stories this movie clearly does not testify.
And in addition to attributing the script to a children's writer who did not participate in these vile cases, we will end with a quote from the film Danelia "Passport":
- Are you Vasily Kuzmich?
- Me.
- Please sign your application.
- What?
- What? That you are not the chief rabbi of the Moscow region.
4 out of 10