The director made a film-reminder about the USSR to all girls and women from Russia and the CIS. The film takes place in 1979. The director immediately raises the topic: “What did perestroika with the Soviet people?” There is no nostalgia for the USSR, but there is purity and naivety of the Soviet people. Soviet naivety has long been absent not only in Russia and the CIS, but also in the whole world. The purity of Soviet childhood of the 1970s is immediately recalled. The film is boring, but the purity of Soviet childhood of the seventies of the 20th century remained. Grandmother Manyuni (played by Juliet Stepanian) says in her own way: “Nobody cared about nationality in the 1970s.” Manyuni (played by Temnova) and Narine (played by Kagramanyan) have new adventures every day. Soviet perestroika erased the purity of Soviet childhood in children of the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s. How can you in a world of global corporations and super-capital think about how cookies and delicious apple pie once melted in your mouth? This is not nostalgia, but the debilitation of young people who no longer climb on YouTube, but only sit all the time in Tik-Tok.
Contemporary directors (especially those with Caucasian surnames) believe that the purity of Soviet families and the simplicity of life in the USSR are now needed by someone. In 2022, even normal people stopped watching YouTube, and all fashionable and modern teenagers without Tik-Tok simply do not live a day. Director Marutyan made a film-reminder of the USSR to all the girls and women from Russia and the CIS, who have lost themselves in the world of global corporations. In the 1970s, kids didn't care about "mom, buy" or "expensive and cheap." Just the kids were clean and every day was perceived as a new adventure.
Yes, this is a film for women born in the USSR who have lost themselves in the modern world of big money, and who find their happiness and vocation in nostalgia for the USSR. In the 1970s, people didn’t care about nationality. There were families and there were grandmothers.
Director Marutyan is good at bowing to women born in the USSR, but the film is very boring. What cookie? What apple pie? If modern children need the latest iPhone and preferably several.