Lera: "He hugged me!" Mom: "You'll be hugged!" I liked the film in many ways. Firstly, I was not jerked and not strained, for which I am already a special thank you, these fashionable now “action elements” are so tired of the already not too strong psyche that on such films you can relax a little, think, postalgize, hear some true words, appreciate recognizable life situations.
Oddly enough, they didn’t try to make me laugh, they didn’t offer any inadequate and strange characters who, as in Western films, appear out of nowhere to freeze another, supposedly funny stupidity. There were no "funny" drunks, no crazy neighbors, no teenage drug addicts, no werewolves in uniforms. All characters are pleasant, adequate, recognizable and cute, each with their own problems and attempts to solve them.
Khmelnitskaya plays her lonely “businesswoman” without any deliberate gloss and pathos, without newfangled things and fakes to the west, she is really “our” simple strong woman, she worked all her life without unbending, she is already tired, and she does not want to live out her century alone. Well, there is no love, so you just need some kind of Anatoly, because the daughter has grown up and begins to live her own life, and it is sad to be alone.
The daughter also looks like a normal and adequate girl. Yes, selfish, like all teenagers, stubborn and categorical, but she is not hopeless, she has a character, not just a dope, she thinks and reflects, she is ready to take action to change something in her life and instead of hysteria and war with her mother, decides to find the “missing link” in their lives, find out who her father is.
This trip is like the main event of the film, something that makes you respect this girl. After all, someone decided on such a “trip”, and someone was going all his life, figured out, but never tried to find, look into the eyes, explain. After all, the meeting could be any, and a person could be anyone, not at all the same as they showed us in the film.
I really liked the scene of their meeting, how she ran up and literally "break" into his life, and waited for his reaction, not knowing what it would be, some helpless, all confidence immediately evaporated, and eyes full of tears, and again a child, not a grown girl.
We have a lot of people who have repeatedly presented their meeting with their father, very many were raised only by their mother. Yes, there are completely different situations in which people break up, but it happens that there was enough nonsense, slander, misunderstanding, resentment, and now there is no family, the child grows up without a father. We do not accept to fight for the family, we have a very weak cult, it is always easier to leave, quarrel and throw a person out of your life than to seek compromises and try to save something.
I would consider this film as a kind of model of a life situation, which we were shown, deliberately removing the negativity and the possibility of another outcome. Yes, it is too good for our unrealistic reality, but it is still possible! There can be no happiness but because we do not believe in it.
I also think it’s important when Lera realized that her Vanya is “native”. I felt, having visited the family of my father, that a kind of warmth should emanate from a native person, that if you close your eyes to the shortcomings of a person, then this kinship can be felt not by the mind, but directly designed for this heart.
In general, the film hooked, so it was done talentedly. The actors liked everything, especially the family – mother, daughter and father. Oh, well, Vanya is very good, he suits them, especially such a faithful monogamist, ha-ha. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the film.
10 out of 10