Not really a review. Loneliness in the big city – in recent years, the topic, to put it mildly, is not new. But it itself is suitable for cheap (in terms of lack of meaning), tearful melodramas. In this film, the loneliness of quite young, fairly wealthy, men and women at the peak of puberty is their own choice, or rather, proof of their limitations and inability to experience great feelings. This is the trouble of any average urban individual-consumer, who, without hesitation, says: “Life is Chernobyl”, thereby avoiding personal responsibility for his own fate.
Well, well, let in an urbanized, materially wealthy society life-Chernobyl, what in this case do the heroes to find at least some, but a way out, because love is what you want? Nothing! Decorated with cosmetics (as if this is a sure way to attract attention to themselves), men and women go to nightclubs (in general, lead a mainly nocturnal lifestyle), indulge in alcohol, “weed” or more serious drugs, eat rice crackers and pizza, try to get sexual pleasure from various perversions. Girls go to the gym - rock muscles, sometimes meet other girls, boys do not do anything alone or find out pseudo-love relationships with other boys, and sometimes with "ex-girls." Sadomasochistic games, where, as a rule, the host is a woman, are held against the background of alarming reports that a real maniac is operating in the city, killing women, every time for the sake of receiving a souvenir from them - one of the earrings. There is unbearable sadness everywhere.
One of the characters of the picture is a girl named Candy lives under the same roof with his ex-boyfriend David, who discovered homosexual tendencies in himself and thus completely cooled to his “ex-girlfriend”. They're kind of just friends, and this abnormal co-existence is fine with them. Candy tries to find love “on the side” – with a lesbian, then with a seemingly decent guy. It's not working. Notable is the short dialogue that once happened between Candy and David.
"I don't just want sex."
DV: That’s why they invented television. (At this time on the "box" show "Flying over the nest of the cuckoo").
In this vast, declining empire of consumption, it is impossible not to go mad. But to spend, you have to earn a little. Someone writes incompetent books, and someone (like Candy) writes angry reviews of these books (the latter circumstance does not always resonate with the authorities – they say, we should write something good). Another "heroine." Bertha is engaged in shamanism and simultaneously plays the role of the “dominant individual” in sadomasochistic games with the men who pay her. David is a failed actor from cheap TV shows working as a waiter, his friend is a small clerk, and in some moments - a maniac killer. In general, continuous unproductive labor in a state of complete ambivalence.
Humanity in the film shows that it is a biologically dead end species and does not seem to regret it. Irreversibility (something in common with Gaspar Noe’s film, shot, however, much later) does not scare anyone. Chains that once connected certain characters are easily broken, communication is replaced by an answering machine, ridiculous performances and cheap “scenes from life”.
The world is sick, though... He was no less ill a thousand years ago. Both then and now await the end of the world, believe in the magic of numbers and horoscopes, fear physical death and hope for salvation. Nothing changes in the human race, except that the freedom so sought for centuries has turned into the very loneliness of the urbanized person, turning human life into an absolute hell, deadly to the soul, but not killing the lustful body.
However, the final picture of Dani Arcana leaves at least some, but still hope, and therefore, after watching it, you still want to go and do something to achieve your own happiness.