Weak drama from a coffee lover The young director Ruslan Gavrilov is not the first year, judging by filmography, “pleases” film lovers with his short films in the style of “not we are, but life” such.
In the film “The Road to Chat” we are told the story of the life of a student Alina, a kind of gray mouse, which, due to difficult life circumstances, earns a stripper in a video chat.
The film begins with the fact that a certain Professor (he plays the role of Voice-over, voicing the thoughts of the characters and quite banal conclusions) tells the audience, consisting of 3 people, about the psychological masks that each person wears and their role in the life of everyone.
In front of us literally for 10 minutes, all possible types of masks are swept: a sweet and timid guy, a bull-groupmate, a wise teacher, a cruel pimp and, in fact, the heroine herself, a good soul with Great Grief.
I will not reveal the rehearsals of a rather average plot, although a very strange happy ending will come.
I will list the main disadvantages and advantages of this film.
Cons:
1) Acting game - it disappoints from the first minutes, long pauses, almost complete absence of emotions in all characters, hesitations in speech.
The role of the main character is performed by a certain Irina Vidritskaya, who, surprisingly, has very few replicas in this picture.
Unfortunately, neither Irina nor her film partners fit into their overly clichéd images.
2) Operator's work - can argue with the quality of the play of local lyceums, this I have not seen for a long time even in the most common student works! The camera regularly shakes, although the film is not shot in reportage style, chooses the strangest (brows of the main character, her nose) and stupid (one of the characters almost falls out of the frame, before it is “cut” on the left edge) angles. Night scenes cause associations with shooting on a mobile phone camera, before they are noisy and grainy.
Separately, I want to highlight the inept work with the background: according to the plot, GG gets into the hospital, where he talks with the Professor who came to visit her.
The astonishment is caused by the moment when behind the back of this wise man jumping back and forth (remember, for the whole film there are almost no scenes with 2 characters at the same time) the camera grabs the school board. Obviously, the scene was filmed in pieces, and props from the stage at the institute were simply lazy to remove.
(3) The low-budget film is a controversial criterion, expressed in the scarcity of film sets and the complete absence of extras. What prevented a dozen of your own friends from taking the stage at the university? And the child who explains the metamorphosis of the main character, where is he?
(4) The length of 55 minutes for a fairly simple story is a lot. Why these pauses in dialogues, why force the film to break into chapters? The feeling that the director tried to shoot a full meter, “like adults”, but something was missing.
Pros:
Unfortunately, there is almost nothing to write here.
1) The story is sewn with white threads, but it is glad that the director did not succumb to the temptation to remove a “black man for life.”
2) Music. Something pleasant was played, quite suitable for the events on the screen.
Total:
Ruslan Gavrilov, by the way, who graduated from SSUZ in the specialty “manager” decided not to replenish the army of white collar workers, but to go into the world of creativity, having already shot 10 short films.
I can't say if the office industry has lost a great manager, but the movie world hasn't gotten anything exceptional.
The painting “The Road to Chat” will be the road to the hell of bad taste, pathos and banality for the brave man who dared to see this creation.
Total: quite at the level of poor student work, it happened and worse.
3 out of 10