The sky is blue in their eyes, and the eagles cannot be frightened. . . © The love of the Russian person to the genre of fallaciousness is inexplicable, but we have ancient and venerable roots: and let literary critics question the genre purity of the fairy tale “Black Chicken”, the Soviet myth actively used all the necessary elements of the fallacious plot – together and separately. It is appropriate to recall not only “Ivan Vasilyevich” (which in the original is not so rabid triumph of Soviet adventurers in the territory of medieval Russia, as Gaidai showed it) and one of the few serious representatives of the genre, “It is difficult to be a god”, but also many other stories, including those designed for children: where only the Soviet schoolboy did not fall – in the Land of Unlearned Lessons, in the fairy tale “Red Riding Hood”, ancient Greece, various other historical periods ... including relatively recent ones.
“Eagle” is an interesting example of the genre of fallaciousness in general and the Soviet adventure story in particular: despite the abundance of heroic stories about the feat of children in the Civil War, there are practically no stories about the fallains in the time of the sixties. This is already in the post-Soviet era, when some crazy science fiction writers certainly want to return power to the Soviets, while others want to protect the ideals of the White Guard army, the Popadians in the period from 1917 to 1920. And it is remarkable that “Eagle” tells not about the feat of a modern pioneer who got into a difficult time and decided to become a hero – no, it is about the fact that the past cannot be corrected, but you need to draw the right conclusions from it and become a hero in your own time. The motive is completely alien to escapist modernity, not wanting to look at the problems, but at the same time contrasting with the heroic and pathos atmosphere of the rest of the film.
P.S.: a parody of the romance of the White Guard cavaliers with champagne and mustaches is much funnier than any "serious" caricature of the Civil War period and almost reaches the comic effect of modern tapes about the greatness of the monarchy.