I read reviews and wonder why there is so much negativity. At the very least, Living Life did a little miracle. The series managed to adapt a fresh book with empty heroes into something truly alive and sincere. The creators of "Living Life" re-wrote the book: added more intrigue, removed heavy, stereotyped conversations, made more action and emotions. It turned out to be an interesting project, which turns out to be also useful - it has a lot of practical tips on how to recognize violence and protect yourself. Spectacular shooting, great actors, and most importantly - a logical and large-scale plot.
The book is much simpler. There are stupid affairs of Anna Boginskaya, flat world, one-dimensional heroes. In the series, events ceased to revolve around the main character. Now around her friends, boyfriends, husbands (who also have important stories for the viewer). In action, there is not only melodrama, but also mysticism with crime. Police, FSB, criminal authorities, even some cults. In the series, the plot is global: it seems that the whole city is covered with passions around Anna, everyone is hiding something.
Who is Anna Boginskaya? According to the original source - through primitive marketer, whose only concern is to find a normal man. Of course, such a person could easily be managed. In the series, Anna really finds an outstanding personality, a specialist in her field, a faithful friend. She (unlike the book) knows how to be afraid, lives with herself at odds, can take revenge, constantly freaks out - and generally behaves like an adequate living person. Not the "perfect" of Mary Sew, as the book suggests, but a real example to admire. Thanks to the image of the main character, we see that, yes, the victims are not only weak people, but also successful and strong. Everyone can be broken.
Anna meets a strange young doctor with whom she falls in love, but soon realizes that this doctor is actually not as simple as it seems. Their affair gradually turns into crime, Anna is more drawn passion, she loses herself. The darker things get, the more we, the audience, lose our bright Anna. It turns out that the devil that is happening around, it is not even her fault - but someone very close.
In the series with surgical meticulousness, an abuse is revealed: all stages, the jumps between them - this information was really useful. Very sincerely, with honesty revealed the relationship between men and women. Even some banal phrases are pronounced by the actors thoughtfully, with eyes wide open - thanks to this, much sounds new. The cast is very good - it is incredibly harmonious, like a real ensemble. Nobody pulls the blanket over themselves, everyone tries to be alive and sincere, communicate like real people. They're nice to watch - and most importantly (a rare quality for current TV shows) these actors are nice to listen to. I can't single out anyone because everything is great.
Music, special effects, inventive shooting, symbolism in color – seem commonplace. In Russia, they have long learned to “make a beautiful picture”, but it’s still nice how carefully the characters moved the details of the images from the book to the screen. An insane number of locations, actions, tricks, original editing - and everything is at an impeccable level.
For those of you who criticize the series, let me remind you. Life is a very bad, mediocre book. It is a miracle that something alive and real has been made of her, so empty and dead. Even the scene of Anna’s acquaintance with the doctor in the film and the book is radically different – in the book, of course, for the worse. The creators of the series did a hell of a job, just a titanic job, when they corrected the hollow and empty source. They tried very hard.
Living life is probably some kind of claim to a philosophical understanding of life from the glamorous writer Anna Boginskaya, who dedicated her novel to her beloved. I didn't even change my name. The main character is Anya Boginskaya. True, in the series it plays Lyubov Aksyonov, which looks like a highly embellished version of the author, but this is an artistic assumption, right?
There is nothing philosophical in this series, but there is a ringing luxury of interiors, strongly embroidered faces of heroines and the main character - sweet, like Kirkorov. One word for Romanian. The character of Roman Vasilyev is initially so physically unpleasant, so behaves like a cat full of sour cream that nothing good can be expected from him. But the heroine of Aksyonova suddenly likes him, and she herself begins to stick to him, And he begins to use pickup trucks sewn with white threads on her.
And at some point you already cease to understand who the main manipulator is – Matvey, who makes clumsy departures, after which no woman will write, or Anna, who first says “if you need quick sex, why did you come to me?”, and then on a second date invites him to her home and talks about menstruation. These people, who all eight episodes constantly admire themselves, do not cause sympathy, desire, or interest. It's just that his office in the hospital looks more luxurious than all the restaurants I've been to. It's just that she has a Tesla and an apartment that looks like a modern art museum. They did it all by themselves. As Daria Moroz said, well, I have a lot of questions.
Who is there to empathize with? Why? I don’t even believe in the existence of such people. Especially when the poor handsome Matvey cries in the shower, because he did not want to offend anyone. We need to calm him down, he didn't want to. Plague on both your houses, this is the emotion that this story evokes.
Are there any clever psychological tricks? Well, if you think it's a trick to meet on a first date at a restaurant, then abruptly offer to leave and go to your house to change. Try it yourself, yeah. Find out what minute your first date ends. Maybe it's tricks to go to a girl for sex and then not touch her? Well, if the girl's 19, it might work. Otherwise, these are common places. If he was just handsome and acting like an idiot, she would still fall in love. That's all the intrigue.
Now, if we were shown in the role of the tempter of that eared freak Artemka, who for Ani spies in the Club, this is the series I would watch. And this is oversugared syrup with no hope of intrigue. No one's sorry, no one.
I will not describe the film, however, it definitely hooked me, because I have lived like this in my life and when it seems that you can safely avoid it – no, not always.
What does the movie say? It is addictive that when a person has not experienced a safe intimacy (I am not talking about physical), then such swings can be perceived as “love”, which ultimately leads to emotional exhaustion, as well as a drawdown of all areas of life, since everything focuses on a constant “dose” of this love injection.
Should I watch the movie?
I will say this, if you romanticize violence, including emotional, then no, because rather get confirmation that your “swings” in a relationship can also have a happy ending, but more often it is not.
If there is a critical view or experience of therapy, then you can see from the outside how a gradual trind occurs in the destruction of the emotional state of a person.
It is very difficult to get out of this on your own, so take care of yourself and go to a psychologist.
I could not read the book further than the third page, it became painful from the clumsy language, primitive constructions. I liked the show.
1. Beautiful. Beautiful people, costumes, a touching combination of Moscow lane-mansion and futuristic.
2. Excellent musical accompaniment, but I am a longtime fan of Ivan Kanaev.
3. Great acting, everyone was in their place, looked harmonious and natural. Kostya is a van lav, although Artem is also an incredibly cool coach (a kind of Quilty-debaucher at the keys), and Guram - I found all interesting. Love Aksyonov is good, but if somewhere the heroine seems inadequate, then it is certainly not the fault of the actress. This Anya from the very beginning went down the path of madness and suffering. Yes, the psychologist is irresistible, her tickle is directly about love for people.
4. The detective line is very convenient, without it, I think the story of Anya-Motya would not have drawn eight episodes.
5. A practical guide to resisting manipulation, an eye is useful for everyone, because beautiful and smart people also come across.
The main character (GG) is a young widow, whose beloved husband died in front of her eyes, after a quarrel. However, in the future we are given through flashbacks to understand that this husband did not respect her, pressed on her, and in general was ' waterbuser', but she still loved him. But a year has passed since the death of her husband and GG decided that it was time to start ' live life', eat food and have sex (omg, you think at this moment, and who just invented the film such a wild title).
The author of the book invented it. It turns out that there is such a book and this is its adaptation. The author, therefore, is a writer. Funny and frivolous became immediately after I realized that the author did not even hesitate to call GG fully her first name and surname, and make it such a mayor’s office that my eyes hurt. Beautiful, smart, rich. Selfmaidwoman. Marketer in the field of fashion (apparently such a narrow specialization as an accountant in the field of confectionery, well). After two days without sleep, GG looks like it just came from a beauty salon. It is attacked by all men without exception, met on the path of life. Artists at exhibitions, businessmen in courts, doctors in clinics. On public transport, such a queen would cause a collapse, so she doesn't ride public transport. Her car is no less controversial than she is. What can I say, even a group of her friends in the wotsap is named after her surname ' Boginskaya and her goddesses' How about that, girls?
So it's settled. Live a life! We find a man we like, make advances for him, invite him on a date. But suddenly something went wrong, and our ' marketer in the field of fashion' suddenly realizes that ' her pickup'. Oh, come on, man! Honey, you should have told her girlfriends at this point. You wanted a relationship, so go get along! You don't like it, you don't. I made sure that 'ah, you play ', well done, get out of the game and go work, marketer, Tesla will not work for itself.
Somewhere in the middle of the series we are given to understand that the new chosen one is not just playing with GG. He's a player. Yeah, like that, with a capital letter. And they show some NLP sect and its guru with a strange manner of speech. Poor ' Goddess ' the second time comes on the same rake, but for some reason it is not at all sorry and the audience still does not become more interesting.
Why did you have to look at it, you ask? Because it's beautiful! Beautiful interiors, beautiful costumes, beautiful still lifes with lobster, just like in the paintings of small Dutch people.
Beautiful Lyubov Aksenov and beautiful Roman Vasiliev, much more reminiscent of Ken than Ryan Gosling, and does not resemble a surgeon, but what difference does it make when it is so beautiful!
Still GG has a friend, clearly spelled out earlier in the script (or in the book, than hell, I didn’t read) as ' a gay friend of the main character, like Carrie Bradshaw' who can put on his knees naked legs with a perfect pedicure and he will understand everything correctly and do a massage. But then, apparently, Roskomnadzor happened and a gay friend put a ring on his finger, called several years as married and even gave a drunk to molest GG. But the vibes from the legs on the knees have not disappeared and are read quite clearly. So, episodes with this 'cute friend' Bones performed by Vladislav Tsenev are a real decoration of the series.
I understand why this series collects so many, if not grateful, then at least involved reviews from women - it is a way to take a basic course on getting out of manipulative relationships at the price of a subscription to an online cinema.
And if this topic ' does not respond', then LJ can just give a few hours of languid escapism under a glass of wine. It reminds me of foreign novels in soft binding - you especially do not expect anything from them, but already from the first pages you understand that you will finish reading.
Here, in addition to a beautiful picture and sexual heroes, there is also an applied benefit - revealing the peculiarities of the behavior of moral abusers - the next time you encounter them live, you will not be able to lie to yourself that this is normal behavior.
For the beauty, romance, the ability to distract from the whole world for the duration of the series, for the benefit and, of course, for Vladislav Tsenev - my sincere like!
I really enjoyed watching this series. Beautiful locations, chic selection of actors, special thanks to costumers, images of heroes are incomparable.
Love Aksyonova (Anna Boginskaya) is an immensely talented actress. I have been following her work for a long time and am pleasantly surprised at how she grows from project to project. Her natural plasticity, talent, absolute beauty and endless work on each character made her a star.
Denmark Vorobyov (coach Vladislav) brilliantly coped with the role. I don’t know how much internal resources go into creating a character, but it’s a brilliant transformation. Voice, movement, facial expressions, piano, poetry is magic, like another kind of person in front of you.
Vladislav Tsenev (Kostya) hooked in this role. When there is chemistry between actors, it always counts. And here it is. All the scenes with him were real, sincere, so natural, as if you are not watching the series, but watching the real conversation of people.
Yuri Chursin (Stat) is boundlessly beautiful in this role and, to be honest, would love to watch a separate film about the relationship between Anna and Stas, because flashbacks were chic. They looked organically in the frame with Anyone, this is their third project and their tandem always comes with a hurrah.
On the subject of the series, I agree with the writers. Beautiful people in beautiful scenery do terrible things. In this contrast of visual beauty, their actions look monstrous. Pretending, hypocrisy, manipulation not only in love relationships, but in friendship, in work, everywhere. It is as if all heroes are infected by a parasite that destroys them. But there is always hope for salvation. I’m really looking forward to the second season, because the characters are not fully revealed, conflicts remain open and the catharsis, although it happened, the circle did not close.
And that's great!
In each series there is a trigger that you can cling to to reveal all the depth and all the meanings.
I liked the movie. Of course, there are some laps, for example, the behavior of a young doctor who starts a relationship with a patient, perfectly understanding how this can affect his career, if the fact surfaces, an unjustified risk. But on the other hand, this other side of the confidence, the underlay mat probably gave him the support not to fear the consequences.
So what's the movie about? About skillful manipulation, abuse and consumerism, and alas, not only and far from only in relationships. In any sphere of life, especially in business, and in friendship, and of course in love.
At first glance, it seems that the creators cling to a rather popular now and hype theme, because it can be heard from every iron. And what to do with it too - all codependency experts, wherever you spit.
But here the meanings are very deeply shown, right on each stage of relations, how the codependency of one person from another is formed and this codependency is reinforced and generally formed on the basis of manipulations - also different, skillful and basic.
Manipulation and use of others - consumer attitude is shown in all its glory and from different angles. People are not value, but someone’s projects, like retail or marketing. Love is bought and sold for career and social status.
The mechanism of how our society now lives and in what vicious circle our society is moving.
I think the second season should be no worse. It is obvious that he will.
The actors are good, I liked everyone. Yuri Chursin - I don't know what to say here at all, he has any role - this is the magic of reincarnation. Aksenova, Frost is great. Even Roman Vasiliev with some demonic appearance is quite himself. And the aerobatics of Daniil Vorobyov's game is a masterpiece.
I wonder who among us thinks we are being manipulated. Few people admit it, and some people, on the contrary, like it. In general, this question is very interesting and in a particularly cool way it is revealed in the new series “Live Life”, about which I want to talk now in detail.
The story begins with Anna losing her husband. She is a young widow who is learning to live. And since a young heart requires something hot even when the head says to be restrained, it soon appears in Anna’s life.
Surgeon Matvey immediately noticed that Anna was an interesting option... but for what? For a new novel? Intrigues? Or is it just an object, a resource on the way to a goal we have yet to learn? It all begins with casual conversations that continue in a much more intimate atmosphere, but fast sex is not what Anna needs, and this is seen by Matvey, who has already set up his nets and is preparing to completely lure the main character into them. He is a manipulator with secrets that are not in a hurry to lay out, and Anna has a difficult way to learn both a new acquaintance and herself in a very difficult situation.
This series from series to series is becoming more interesting. I will say so, first you need to enter the plot, get acquainted with the characters, understand their characters, and then you can safely get maximum pleasure from watching. The first series was rather introductory, and then the plot has already begun to gain momentum, and now it is impossible to break away from the screen, because around the heroine Aksenova really twists serious intrigue.
In addition to the obvious things that are associated with the relationship of Anna and Matvey, “Living Life” tells us very well about the difficulties of the modern rhythm of life. Here we are constantly chasing something, we want to prove something to someone, although in reality we just need to be happy. But no, we are always looking for adventures on our heads, and this leads to unpredictable situations like the ones shown here.
The series pleases with intrigue, well-written characters, as well as dramaturgy.
I advise you to watch, especially since all the series have already come out, and you do not have to look forward to the whole week to find out what will happen next.
Lately, there are so many Russian TV series that sometimes you just do not know which one to choose and then do not regret the time spent. Fortunately, the psychological drama "Living Life" left behind only pleasant emotions and useful reflections. But everything in order.
Anna Boginskaya, a successful marketer, smart and beautiful, tragically loses her husband (he dies in an accident right before her eyes). Having burned out, she tries to continue to live: takes on large-scale projects, hangs out with friends, helps one of them in organizing a wedding, sometimes even goes on dates. She doesn’t even think about a serious relationship until she meets a mysterious doctor. Unexpectedly, she invites him on a date and very quickly notices how the man is trying to manipulate her. However, the girl can no longer think about him. After a series of strangely ending dates, toxic compliments and portions of an ignorant Anna decides to figure out why the gentleman behaves this way. And it turns out that he is in a secret club of abusers, whose goals are not yet very clear. What did she deserve? Who's behind all this? And why is the behavior of the new partner so similar to the habits of the deceased husband? All the answers will be given only in the last series, and to unravel this web before me, for example, just did not work.
In general, I want to praise the writers: the series came out very twisted and intriguing. He made me reconsider my attitude to domestic abuse and even to the smallest manipulations by others. I also found it very important that the creators of the drama do not lead the audience to despair and do not kill the belief in love. It is still possible in this world, and for this conclusion I want to say thank you.
To be honest, I’d like to have a more detailed look at the characters of Anna’s friends—sometimes they seemed to be just scenery—and, of course, of her deceased husband. However, some understatement allows you to hope for a new season?
I recommend it! I'll revisit it on occasion.
The leitmotif of abusive relationships, once an infoductor for talk shows and self-proclaimed psychologists bloggers, served as the basis for the works of director Artem Aksenenko, known as the author of the socially and historically significant “Fog”. No, I’m not talking about the “Mediator”, which is already highly appreciated by the audience (the score in Kinopoisk was 8.1) and carefully “chewed” by connoisseurs of Russian cinema, but about the film adaptation of the writer and business analyst Anna Boginskaya “Live Life”. The score of this 8-episode psychological drama is slightly lower (6.7). To understand what is the reason for such an ambiguous reaction of the audience is not in my competence, but I consider it necessary to give a philistine assessment.
The series begins with this meaningful tautology and ends with it. Anna Boginskaya, traumatized by the experience of marriage with a psychopathic narcissist, plunges into a new relationship, repeating an unlearned lesson. Omitting the story of the incomprehensible mind “club” pickuppers-killers led by a failed poet-paranoid, the all-powerful Guram Dadiani and an unauthorized operation in the clinic, you can squeeze out this series of medicinal ether at a time.
Every manipulative technique demonstrated in the series, superimposed on the traumatized female psyche, combines the strongest addiction, unjustified guilt and the desire to save. In fact, any successful woman can be made a “victim”. And if Anna Boginskaya did not have such enlightened friends, then the end of this series would clearly not be happy. Although over this “happy end” also hangs a big question, due to the multi-storey machinations of the girlfriend of the main character, which brilliantly played Daria Frost.
The average viewer, if she did not watch this series while doing a manicure or preparing a borscht, can conduct a superficial comparative analysis with their past or present relationships. Maybe she will draw some conclusions for herself. Only what good is it if the plot leads to the fact that any repulsed manipulator and abuser can be saved?
Actually, this serial pill can be useful if you do not drink it on an empty stomach and combine it with the correct from a psychological point of view literature.
I love beautiful and independent women. "Living life" is just that. The main role is Love Aksyonov in mind-blowing outfits. Daria Frost is also all “rich”. Daria, by the way, is also the showrunner of the series, and this explains a lot (watch the final episode - find out why). The men in "Live Life" are beautiful too, but none are normal: either mumbles or psychopaths. About psychopaths, by the way, this is not an exaggeration: the series is almost a manual on unhealthy relationships and how to avoid them.
The beginning of this story is classic: a patient falls in love with her doctor. Let me just say that the patient recently died husband-abuser, and the doctor is a manipulator from a closed men's club. Is it a coincidence that there are so many toxic men in a woman’s life? Of course not. And it's not about psychology at all.
The series is based on the novel of the same name by psychologist and coach Anna Boginskaya. I wonder if it is based on the story of Anna herself or her patient. Heroes and their actions are very well written. I think a lot of people recognize themselves in them, even if you (or you) were not being manipulated quite consciously.
And in the series a lot of candid scenes. This is probably the most piquant role of Aksyonova, so get away from the screens of children. Well, the real discovery of this project and all modern Russian cinema, I consider Roman Vasiliev (performer of the role of a manipulator-doctor). A very talented artist with incredible facial features (like Gaft in his youth).
I'd recommend the show. Yes, he stands in a long series of projects about all sorts of psychological things, but favorably stands out catchy plot, intriguing scenario and incredible denouement, which, incidentally, hints at the second season.
9 out of 10
The series is about the dream of any victim: that the abuser in the end was a good and adequate guy.
At least that's the angle I thought he was.
Recently, I got hooked on Russian TV series platform start. I even got two favorites: Lyubov Aksyonov and Dmitry Lysenkov. I’m reviewing all the shows I have with them, and when they’re done, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Maybe I’ll finally get to work.
The series “Live life” I chose, adhering to this scheme, there plays Aksenov. The title is quite pathetic for me, so I postponed watching it for a long time. Eventually she gave up and opened the first series. The series didn’t drag on much, but, in general, decided that it could continue.
At the very beginning, we learn that the heroine’s husband died a year ago. She experienced it very hard, but in the end she got out and now she is a cool specialist in her field, who instantly and in the best way solves not only work cases, but also can arrange the most, most bachelorette party for her friend.
By the way, the heroine is called the same as the author of the book on which the series is shot - Anna Boginskaya. And the group in the messenger, where she communicates with her friends is called “the Goddess and her goddesses”. “That sounds great!” I thought. I immediately began to wonder how I could do the same with my name. “Dinova and her dinosaurs?” Somehow not subtle and does not modestly hint at age. What about my old name? "Kurazova and her chicken?" Oh, shit. The husband suggested to consider the name of the mother and call the group “Zhdanova and her waiting”. I have to admit that there is nothing elegant about my names.
I will not go into the thick of the plot, because the main thing you need to know about the heroine - her ex-husband severely manipulated her, humiliated her, twisted her as he wanted, broke her psyche and eventually died (I am not implying anything). She put up with it, thought it was perfect, and I think she misses it now. And happy she meets the abuser again! Of course, instead of giving up wiping her legs, she wants to figure out why he is doing this and prove to himself, to him and the world that he is really good, just confused.
The heroine's psychologist advises her to run, but why run if you can suffer.
Okay, actually, the story arc of the series is much deeper. Matvey (the freshest) and really the abuser is not in fact, but forced. Anna's been ordered. Ordered to break her psyche and turn her into a victim. So it seems that in this case, intuitively, she correctly understands that this boy is really adequate (well, there are questions, of course), just his brain was stuffed. This does not justify why she tolerates all the emotional swings and other fun rides, but everyone lives his life as he wants, in fact. The title speaks for itself.
As I understand it, the idea of the series to show the techniques of manipulators and abusers, through a mythical “club”, where guys are taught all these psychological lotions. That's interesting. And to fulfill the dream of any victim, as I wrote above. After all, by the end of the series, Matvey breaks down and becomes himself, beating his mentor on the “club”. Patience, faith and love of the heroine made a monster of man. Not only that, it turns out that her ex-husband also played bullying. What a celebration! Maybe the abusers don't exist at all and are just part of a worldwide conspiracy? “She loved and tolerated everything, I never met such” – as the crown of everything sounds in the final phrase of Anna’s friend, which generally makes the heroine a saint.
What's the result? The series is addictive and intriguing. I thought I knew where it was going, but I was beaten and I didn’t expect it to be for a completely different purpose. The picture is formed, my inner lover of intricate stories is pleased. A little confused by the excessive deification of the victim, but you can close your eyes to this and just understand that after all, the abusers in the series were fake, which means that the sniff of the heroine did not fail. Although, of course, they're all a little finished.
I won’t tell you about the posthumous abuse, otherwise there will be a huge spoiler. Suddenly someone else besides me will be interested in spending part of his life on 8 episodes of 45 minutes and plunge into the world of imaginary abusers, victims and rescuers.
Only cautiously, in the extreme series, they made it clear that a second season was planned. And this is always scary, because you never know how much this time will break the roof of the creators of the series.
Have you noticed how many shows about psychology and manipulation have come out lately? Obviously, in our time of total sincerity and all sorts of studies from the public there is a request for this. And the drama “Living Life” could become another project with a classic move: a psychologist (or psychiatrist) treats a patient and heals himself. But it wasn't. There is only one doctor here, a surgeon, and he is not going to save anyone.
But closer to the point. So, in the center of the plot - marketer Anna, successful, beautiful and lonely. Her husband died, and she is not ready for a new relationship (she would have to find out everything with the ghost of her deceased husband). But one day, noticing something like a tumor in her chest, she goes for a consultation with the same surgeon. Spoiler: everything will be fine with Anna’s physical health, but the psychological situation will be shaken for real. The doctor, using manipulative tactics, falls in love with her for almost a session. The girl immediately realizes that strange games are being played with her (interrupted dates, toxic “compliments”, sharp disappearances and even sharper appearances). However, the main question remains: why does the attending physician do this to her? To solve the mystery, the girl decides to fight the manipulator with his own methods. But is it possible to emerge victorious from this battle? I will not say, here you are already watching and learning how to do and not to do.
Someone will call the series boring, and I have such a temporism: it is not a fighter with chases, cars do not explode there, and shootings if they happen, then only with eyes. In general, a pleasant enveloping vibe with a foreboding sharp and ringing, like a slap, denouement.
Oh yes, it is worth noting how visually worked on the series: everything is expensive, rich, all in brands and diamonds. Love Aksyonov, as always, beautiful, Daria Frost, as always, mysterious, Daniil Vorobyov, as always, in a crazy in every sense of the image.
In my opinion, the series “Living Life” was successful: both the eye is pleasant and the brain is useful. I may be exaggerating a bit, but I think it can be a great guide to manipulators and manipulations. And you will often recognize yourself and your friends (I do not guarantee that this will be a pleasant recognition). Very often during the viewing I caught myself thinking: what would I do in the place of this or that hero? So, the creators of the project worked for good reason and their product has at least one 100% involved fan in the form of me.
9 out of 10
“What am I doing wrong?” is a question that should not be asked in a relationship.
To be honest, I did not expect anything supernatural from the series “Living Life”. However, after the first series, it became clear that this is not a “soap” for the background, but a deep psychological project, which for some (let’s be honest, for many) can become a kind of therapy.
I’ve heard somewhere that after each episode is released, psychologists record its video parsings, analyzing and classifying abusers, manipulators, and other sociopaths. The videos are wildly popular. Interestingly, after the release of Anna Boginskaya’s novel, which, in fact, became the primary source of the film adaptation, thousands of women left comments on the writer’s Facebook pages. They thanked Anna for her therapy and help in solving problems.
Anna Boginskaya is the name of the main character of the psychological drama. She is a successful marketer who recently lost her husband (he died in a car accident in front of her). Around the girl a lot of friends and a lot of wealthy clients. She's just getting out of depression, as she once feels a seal in her chest. She goes to the doctor for a consultation, and then everything is in a fog. The young doctor just fascinates her. Not expecting from herself, Anna asks him out on a date and falls in love. Friends sound the alarm: Boginskaya is moving away, more and more often disappears somewhere, and if she comes to girl gatherings, she will not get out of the phone. There is no happiness in her eyes. The doctor turns out to be a cruel manipulator, practicing cunning and dangerous tactics on her. And the memory of the ex-husband does not let go: he also behaved rudely and even cruelly with her. Anna begins to realize that the appearance of toxic men in her life is not accidental. And how do you think she works it out? She becomes a toxic (here I wish not to be like Anna). I’m not going to tell you the end of the story, you should see it.
In addition, I have a clear feeling that one season of “Live life” will not cost: the novel of the same name Boginskaya is only the first part of her psychological trilogy.
I give the show a strong eight. And the visual is a dozen plus. I want to praise the cameraman and the costume designer separately. I am not sure, of course, that Daria Moroz’s golden outfit was appropriate in the scene with vodka and borscht, but it looked very bright and unusual.
To summarize, I will be looking forward to the continuation. And to all who are in abusive relationships, I wish not to wait a minute and run away from them far and quickly. Watch this series to see yourself from the outside.
Seeing in one popular social network excerpts from the film, very interested: secrets of abusers, wow, warned-armed and so on. But in fact received some pretentious puff, and not a revelation about moral violence.
The main character is too clumsy in his attempts to bring the heroine to the handle. All his so-called manipulations are very primitive and boring to watch. Demon temptor and does not smell close, although the charisma of the actor, in my opinion, would allow him to create such an image, but something script did not contribute.
You don't believe the main character either. In fact, we wanted to show a girl who, although she understood the pickupper, but still fell madly in love with him. Nevertheless, the kind of passion-face should boil, but as soon as a date happens, Anna sits with a skeptical grin on her face, like, come on, entertain me, boy. No chemistry, no emotion, just awkward communication. As with such ' strong feelings' she still runs after the hero, not sent him to hell, it is unclear.
She also reminds me of Mary Sue. And everyone falls in love with her, and she is successful in her work, and friends (male) are useful, ready to reveal all the secrets of their relatives.
Well, the so-called club is a separate kind of kringe. But I will not paint to avoid spoilers.
I don’t really see anything in the series. But you can pass the time with him in the evening, because the picture is pleasant to the eye. I can't tell you any more.
The idea of the series is interesting, at least my friend described it as follows: “This is a film about male manipulation.” Wow, that sounds interesting, but really what?
30-year-old Anya is an educated and bright girl. She has an established career as a marketer and a large circle of friends. The tragic death of her husband did not break her, but forced her to rethink her life and move on. She is not in a hurry to start a new relationship, but builds her life freely and independently until she meets a new man. Anya faces deliberate manipulation on his part and realizes that the cyclical nature of unhealthy relationships in her life is not accidental.
In fact, a very strange and incomprehensible series to me. What is it about?
Hard to answer.
Honestly, for me personally a bland series and too pretentiously soulless licked picture about a heavy female share. Adult, self-sufficient and successful woman, behaving like a teenager, pecking at cheap manipulation. No, wait, she's smart, she's got that cheap trick. But still continues to communicate with the performer of these tricks. The dude touched her breast, took her on a date with notes of cheap kickback and she runs after him the whole series and tries to unravel this impossible AgadAchkuu. You don't understand anything, it's LUBOFF.
Her object of adoration, it turns out, is a player in the cruelest game, and he treats Anna this way, because he is such a traumatized person under the yoke of a grandiose director of manipulators. He is bound by obligations, and sometimes we hint at real feelings between them, because he does not want to do this to her anymore, but DireHtor does not allow him to turn on back gear, and binds him to the shackles of obligations to this school of manipulation. And Matthew has no way back. It's an exciting story for 1,000 out of 10. More drama.
The only character I like is the director of this sect of manipulators, who plays the role well.
Fresh acting, which even I, the spectator is not experienced, can not believe, hence the lack of emotions for this picture. The heroine throughout the series does not cause any emotions, constantly stone scoreboard, confess, the prototype was taken from Bella from “Twilight”?
And her attempts to destroy the sect, kringe chase. It's as bold as a p... bullet. Now she's going to single-handedly smash this school, and show them where the crayfish hibernate! So successful and busy, so self-sufficient and independent. So resentful and complex. So cool, just what is her coolness, in the shots where she drives a cool car, and how business lady Edie discusses business on the phone?
I still have questions, she's such an in-demand marketer, working with large objects, where does she have the time to do this hmm... this pickup trucker and the suffering for him and the time she spends thinking about him. Do you seriously think that self-sufficient and whole people in their spare time do all this? Well, actually, that's what makes them successful.
The film is based on the book of the same name by Anna Boginskaya (real name - Anna Burakova), so first of all you need to have an idea of the source and author.
The author is from Infotsygan, although he does not consider himself a blogger in any case, but he has a personal sect ' Butterflies'. He positions himself as a specialist in psychological assistance to women in abusive relationships, although he is not a professional psychologist. He also makes money by offering to buy a book. And the whole film is advertising her book to appeal to an audience, because the film itself has no artistic value. And here's why.
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The book, like the movie, is a handbook on manipulative relationships from the world of very rich people. The heroine is the alter ego of the author, she even bears the same name, apparently, the author sees herself this way or really wants to be seen this way.
The heroine is the perfect muse that everyone loves, necessarily high-status and influential, and she is all airy in ruffles and very unhappy. Her husband died in a car accident, and she still grieves, although her husband was a narcissistic psychopath and abused the heroine, but she is very grateful to him for this, because only thanks to him she was able to make a career. And now he is thinking about whether it is worse to live with a manipulator or live after his death. She suffers for a short time and pretty soon starts an affair with a professional pickup. And he doesn't love her, and she wants to love her. This is, in principle, the summary of the film.
All the characters, including the author himself, suffer from megalomania, so the heroine cannot allow someone to dislike her and go into all seriousness.
There is no problem, because even the heroine does not see the problem in what is happening to her. There is no intrigue either, that is, there is no development of events. It is even difficult to give spoilers. Heroes wander aimlessly through expensive restaurants and closed exhibitions and do nothing but say the same thing in a circle, often nonsense. Locations and dialogues are often unrelated because the plot itself is missing. Now the characters have dinner together, then have sex, and in the next scene, the heroine says something like: ' He did not get in touch n-a-days' although she does not respond to him, and they met just yesterday. The whole storyline is already shown in the trailer.
What about the movie?
No way. And this is the case where the film fits the book very closely, although it would be better if the writers worked their money. In general, it seems that the author paid for her book to be screened, following each letter.
Heroes are negative, and this is always a problem for the viewer, because there is no one to sympathize with. They are all unpleasant and repulsive personalities. And as much as the author does not want her heroine to be seen as a beautiful, intelligent, weak and defenseless woman, this does not happen.
Given that the problem of ideal rich people who do not know how to entertain themselves is not very close to people, and the plot is incoherent, jumps and does not keep in suspense, the artistic value of the film is about zero.
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For inexperienced girls and young people who don’t yet see real life being replaced by advertising gum, and may start looking for signs of such manipulation in real relationships, or maybe even try to use them, watching it can be dangerous. It just doesn't make sense to everyone else.
What distinguishes contemporary art from traditional art? It works as a provocation in the context of modern life. It is not about moving from problems to beauty, but about drawing attention to the problem.
Since I am only a sofa expert, I will leave the rest of the professionals of my army the opportunity to assess the level of acting, staging and other things. I want to talk directly about the ideas of the series.
I can safely say that I consider this series a real masterpiece. The only question is what the viewer sees. I believe that a miracle happens when the viewer’s inner perception of the world depends on what interpretations he will see.
Often, one’s own ego and feeling right creates problems in mutual understanding between people. People who know about this tend to understand the interlocutor/opposition, thinking that this will help solve the problem, and quite often it works. However, only a few people know that sometimes (or rather regularly) you need to go beyond the two-dimensional perception of the situation (from the side of “me and my ego” and the side of “he/she/they and their ego”) and look at what is happening from the third person. It is then that we get to truly understand ourselves and our interlocutor, because while we are not trying to assess the situation from the outside, but only trying to understand the interlocutor, we actually give him OWN interpretation of his actions, and therefore still remain hostages of one-sided perception of reality.
I believe that the authors of this series were absolutely successful in immersing the audience in this trip and giving the opportunity to experience a similar experience. To do this, in all the headlines, descriptions, provocative cuts, and most importantly, even the voiceover comments of the actors themselves, the viewer is inspired that the series is about evil manipulators of men.
Based on numerous reviews on various streaming platforms, the absolute majority of viewers perceive this series as a story about insidious manipulative men, mercilessly mocking poor women, from whom they only need sex, and in extreme cases also “energy feeding” due to the observation of female suffering.
The heroine of the series is sure that everyone around her is to blame, except for herself. They're all manipulators and abusers. Moreover, due to a competent advertising campaign, viewers are in solidarity with the opinion of the main character. They see things in the first person.
But is that really what we see on the screen? We see a heroine who genuinely believes that the key to understanding a man is knowing that he has his own desires, and she strives to understand them. She goes beyond me and my ego and tries to look at the situation in two dimensions. Thus, it is naive to believe that he is becoming more aware of what is happening and falls into the trap I described above. She thinks that HER INTERPRETATION of a man's actions is absolutely correct.
This is where the real “provocation and drawing attention to the problem” begins. The heroine cannot enter into a three-dimensional perception of reality, since she is a hostage of the writer’s pen and screenwriter, but the viewer can. To do this, he needs to understand two things: that he is behind the screen, and try to perceive the situation from the viewer, and not from the perspective of the narrator, and, secondly, pay attention to the clues that the author himself leaves.
Personally, I saw on the screen a girl with a huge number of psychological problems, with unworked traumas from the past, preventing her from perceiving reality through the “prism of adequacy”. I also saw absolutely adequately behaving men who are criticized not only by Mr., but also by the audience of the series.
I will not give examples of any specific scenes in order to avoid spoilers and / or provide an opportunity for those who have already watched this series to look at what is happening from a different angle and try to find contradictions and inconsistencies.
I will only point to an obvious hint from the authors themselves. Each series of friends and girlfriends directly tell her that you should not continue the relationship with this man, if she considers him a manipulator.
It is very important to stop not because he is manipulative, but because he is manipulative.
To understand why he is not a manipulator, I recommend that the viewer carefully listen to all the described techniques of manipulation, and then try to impose them on the behavior of a guy and a girl. I think many people will be surprised whose actions actually fall into the category of manipulation, abuse and emotional swing. Try to analyze each action of Anna and Matvey, since the former are not subject to criticism in the series at all, and the latter (perhaps specifically?) are regularly criticized.
And also please note that the story comes from the first person, and everything that happens to Matthew, when in the frame is not Anna, it is only guesses of Anna.
Can the author thereby show how easily Anna believes in the “secret conspiracy of men” against her, but at the same time denies the fact that she is engaged in manipulation, which she asks for advice from her friends?
I was offended by this series by the fact that on the screen I saw not a fictional character, but a real personality type, the confirmation of which and the direct prototype of which are the same commentators and fans of this book and series.
I understand that disputes about manipulation and abuse can be conducted for a very long time, and even a psychologist will not always help in this. And especially for girls and women like the main character, as well as the heroine herself, it is very difficult even theoretically to assume that the problem is in themselves. So I'm going to skip this discussion.
However, there is a simpler truth that I hope, like Anna’s friends hope that I will be able to convey to women, just as Anna’s friends hope that they will be able to convey to the heroine and viewers: a good person or a bad person by objective standards this case is the tenth, but if a person is not suitable for YOU personally by YOUR criteria, then remember the proverb “do not want to go to the toilet, do not torture your ass” and understand that you need to look for another partner. This series shows that even if a man is not a manipulator, but simply adheres to his own principles and interests, a woman who seeks to find a man who is not suitable for herself, and someone who is not suitable and change him, will sincerely believe that the man is to blame, and not herself. After all, throughout the series, the main character clearly says that she does not like the behavior of Matvey, but instead of listening to friends and stop communicating with him if she does not like his behavior, she insists that she wants to understand why he is different and why he behaves this way. But in fact, he is not “not like that”, but just another. Another type of person, a type that her mind and / or life experience do not allow you to accept and realize, so it is easier to put the stigma of an abuser and manipulator.
Surely the series was planned as a kind of manual for beginner victims of manipulation, but in the end it is a boring barely watchable product with flat characters and dialogues from which you catch kringe. I heard about the work of Anna, the author of the novel on which the series was shot, I saw videos from her channel, which are very inspiring, informative and useful. Unfortunately, this was not conveyed to the film.
The main character is positioned as an independent, strong Iron lady who keeps everything under control and copes with any difficulties with a hurrah. In fact, there is either depression or PTSD, a missing look, obsessive thoughts about the deceased husband and / or hallucinations, and dependence on alcohol and men. They are literally everywhere in her life - the spirit of her deceased husband, Jenek, whom she does not understand why she keeps with her, because she does not even like him, a friend with whom she uses a ban, and then a surgeon who behaves inadequately from the first minutes of appearance, whom she recognized as a pickup trucker and an asshole, but for some reason still fell for all these cheap kicks. The motivation of the heroine is incomprehensible at all - she does not want quick sex, but she is not ready for a serious relationship, because she is pursued by flashbacks. As a result, she still meets this cryp surgeon, who with each scene more and more demonstrates his inadequacy in the form of insults and sudden outbursts of anger. It seems that our cinema is thoroughly imbued with misogyny, so he does not like female characters that even when she shows an intelligent interesting girl, she looks like the last fool.
As for the main character, he behaves like a maniac. At the first meeting demonstrates a value judgment, invites the girl to his home, walks half-naked. The viewer should, in theory, want to sleep with him, but if you honestly want to hit him with a report to the police. Any normal (not even very) girl like this ' manipulation ' would be frightened. I understand that they are trying to show us a thorny manipulative narcissist, but to be honest, it looks more like he has exhibitionism, and narcissism goes off the scales in the main character, because she likes to extol herself so much. And the question is, why does the doctor act like he's some kind of waiter? As far as I know, plastic surgeons earn very well, well, in theory they are about the same party with him, but they paint him with some kind of poverty.
Separate topic sworn friends who always want something from the main character, constantly accuse her of something, and meet only to swell. It's also very hard to watch a movie when you read the characters' correspondence 60 percent of the time.
I don’t know what audience this movie is intended for. Initially, we are trying to snuggle the vibe of a psychological thriller, but by the middle of the second series you understand that this is another film product about how the rich of Moscow have nothing to do and they invent problems for themselves.
I sincerely congratulate Anna Boginskaya on the realization of the dream of the series.
I'll just write it like a regular viewer:
A good coach (who probably saved many women who survived the abusive) is not equally a good writer or screenwriter, unfortunately, the series shows how hard it was for everyone to work with the material, how tortured the text is, how unnatural everything is. The feeling that the author really wanted to cram all the luxury and splendor into the film format.
But the central trouble of the series is the main character, an incredibly boring and flat character, she does not empathize, she is unpleasant; even at the stage of reading the books, the author’s self-admiration of the main character could not be irritated, she tirelessly praised herself through all the characters. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Everyone loves her friends and every man she meets. Successful success. And so on.
But living people are not so flat, and you can also penetrate only to the same real, sincere, living and even imperfect people.
Whether the series will be therapeutic, as the author probably expected (at least so it was stated about the books that became the basis of the script) - perhaps, but watching very hard - boring.
Of the advantages - a very high-quality, tasty picture, interesting technical solutions and music. And, of course, the most beautiful Chursin.
'Live life' - At first, I decided that this is a speech therapy exercise for those who have problems with hissing sounds. Well, like this: It looks like a beetle, it buzzes from afar. Obsessive repetition of sounds 'Zhi' - live life. There is a point 'Zhi' and hold on to it. Sorry, I'm distracted. So it was ' How I spent this summer' This is probably a conceptual development of the idea. Who am I to criticize the writer? I can only suggest variants of titles for the sequel: ' Walking the dog', ' Lying on the sofa', ' Fucking the muzhikk'.
Okay. A successful young widow wants to fill the ringing void formed after the death of her beloved husband (husband will die in the first seconds of the film), and meets a demonic brunette mammologist from Voronezhh. Brunet will be a skillful manipulator, and the boring life of the widow will bloom with new, bright colors. . .
It’s April, and the title of best comedy of the year has already found its owner. 'Live Life' is the funniest TV series of the year. The scene of the first date is written gracefully, with taste, and refined humor. What do people with a rich inner world talk about on a first date? Because she's a marketer and he's a surgeon? That's right, about sales. She offers him to practice cross-selling, and he will tell her how to find an approach to the client. Well, really, how long can you tolerate these pink snots? Love, blood is for drooling kids! We make money, so the date should be tough, the date - training, business game.
Come on, even funnier. The surgeon mirrors the poses of the widow, strokes the pen, looks into the eyes, and a highly professional marketer is struck by a terrible guess - he picks me up, you bastard! Moreover, the girl is infuriated not by the fact of manipulation, but the fact that the boy acts according to the scheme, stupidly, inventively. But you can't do that! That's offensive! She constantly emphasizes - ' I am a marketer', ' I am a marketer', ' I am a fashion marketer' Everyone knows that marketers are the main driver of the economy, doubling GDP is entirely their credit, our prosperity is in their hands. Marketer sounds proud! Compare: ' marketer in the field of fashion' with ' janitor in the field of yard' or ' boxer in the field of muzzle'. The choice is obvious. It's not the marketers of the '90s, whose main task was to explain to the toothless why he needed to chew orbits without sugar. The current marketer is a strategist, psychologist, economist, etc. And here's an insultingly cheap cut. I fully share the indignation of the main character.
The most interesting thing is that she does not even like the surgeon, but her spiritually rich friends, literally chanting with a choir - "Perespi!" Pe-re-re-sleep! We understand that the marketer cannot ignore the desires of consumers (market segmentation, marketing research), and the girl is forced to meet the demand. And then there's the Shadow of the Father, I mean, the Ghost of the Husband. Funny character, he's funny gazing his eyes, and howling in the afterlife - 'Do you think of him? Do you want him to come into you? 39. If the girl were a little more resourceful, she would tell the deceased - if I didn't have sex, at least someone would come in! There is no choice, you will have to endure multiple catharsis in the arms of the surgeon. But the kid is not so simple, and we are waiting for several more series of trainings on working out objections, deepening the sales funnel, and other goodies.
The author of the script not only has a refined sense of humor, but is also a master of aphorism. 39: Life is life, and sex is not the limit of dreams! After hearing these words of the main character, I wanted to take a piss. Pour them in granite. Deep. Weep with envy all sorts of ineptitudes like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer! Live a life! We all do not live, but wander through life, confused in snot. But the main character ' builds his life freely and independently' in accordance with the advice of ladies' magazines, and the recommendations of coaches. And the fact that the relationship she has ' unhealthy' and ' cyclical' (sex with a dead man is such necrophilia, then with a surgeon - he moves the goiter so amusingly during sex that it is not clear whether he is now vomiting, or whether he is stretching for food), is her ' free' and 'independent' choice. Envy the silence.