That's right, right! I decided to write a short review after I saw a comment in the VK from a person who said about the cartoon: “Suspence of my childhood.”
But, indeed, a very suitable term for the sensations that the viewer experiences during viewing. And not only a child, because all the greatest, as it were, children’s creations of Soviet culture continue to amaze quite adults. How do you fit something big in 10 minutes? But here we are fascinated (a huge thank you to V. Martynov) from the very first frame, when we see the word "Soyuzmultfilm" on an unusual emerald background. From the moment Kokovanya tells Darenka about the goat, we live a small life with her, and we become incredibly curious how this story will end. Music creates an atmosphere of mystery and expectation, as if leading to the final event. The same thing, by the way, does the cat, “pronouncing” the phrase in the title.
Special attention deserves the episode where Darenka first saw a goat, and returned to the hut. We feel with her that this meeting will be limited. What else can I wish for, because I could see it! And expensive stones, well, not all at once. That's the thought the girl falls asleep on. He wakes up anxiously, and... He sees the Hoof again! Darenka goes outside, and the goat is on the roof of the hut. After all, it seemed that you can see it only in a remote forest, from afar, and here very close! And an event happens, the music reaches its climax, and at the end Kokovanya returns. This scene is very special. We do not hear any phrase (here to say and do not!), but by the movements of the characters we understand what they feel. Something similar can happen when two people watch an important football game and “our” score a goal at 0-0.
In addition, we are once again convinced that Soviet culture was very multifaceted, and produced a kind of gemstones, which were covered with a dense layer of bourgeois mass culture. "Silver Hoof" on TV almost does not show, and people as often as wolves and hares, it does not remember. But if remind , then many will remember a fascinating story, very unusual and unlike anything else.
10 out of 10