Very touchingly touching I have a relationship with this cartoon - it every time after watching leaves inside lumps of compassionate sigh and the feeling that you do not fully understand everything, maybe somehow one-sidedly, barely noticing allusions to the Soviet system, with its "Balabanovshchina": a communal life with vexations and denunciations.
The story itself about the tragedy of a “recycled” person, the heroes have known for a long time, because this monstrous weakness of the monster is acutely felt, it seems that he was recently skilled in witchcraft, under power, and kept the environment in fear, as here, hoba, a sharp drop, and signs of senile dementia in the complete absence of money, and who needs it, only an object of ridicule and bitter resentment for the past on the one hand, and sympathy on the other.
The cartoon changes history, settles Anna Lvovna to the already “nobody” scattered creature, it completely randomly constantly molts, forgets to buy food, and jokes from him, although funny, but cause a lot of trouble. Anna Lvovna is an exemplary Soviet citizen here - she falls into discrimination from the threshold in appearance, angry with all the fibres of her soul for the military order, in her free time she writes denunciations and surprisingly, but she is worried about Aunt Masha, she advocates for a "normal" communal existence from her point of view. Pity is unacceptable for her, and the old monster can no longer meet her requirements. Reminiscent of the situation in the USSR with the disabled: if you want to live – adjust to the norm, these are your problems.
Because the cartoon came out surprisingly tolerant humanistic, and the beautiful words, despite the tinsel of false dirt, that they are now trying to hang on us.
The warmth of compassion in the last shots: under the bright aunt Mashinskaya bravado about protection, the monster is already tired peacefully gaiety sleeping in a dream. And this is the story of one apartment, but one courtyard, a city and a ruthless world.
