"F**You" or thinking about the beautiful. Everything was great!
Wonderful Christmas Eve night! But, literally three minutes later, we see a lone cyclist hit by a hefty SUV with the words "F** YOU" on the trunk. With this slogan, we can then easily identify the car of Masimiliano Bernaschi, a young scion of a very, very wealthy family. Suspicion, of course, falls on him and his girlfriend Serena, the daughter of a not-so-successful real estate agent.
Yes, the reader will not think that he is waiting for another story of Monteca and Capulet. Oh, no! It's much more complicated. A real drama in the Russian style.
Take Giovanni Bernaschi for example. The owner of an investment fund, a real “shark” of big business, tough, ruthless and cynical. After many years of marriage, he still adores his wife Carla, a former actress. This role is perfectly performed by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, known to the Russian audience for the film “Castle in Italy”, which received the “Golden Branch” in 2013. Her heroine constantly suffers from boredom and inspirituality of family life and society as a whole. Well, what do you say, not Lopakhin, who managed to achieve if not heart, then hand Ranevskaya? Or Dino Ossola (Serena's father). The character of another program author. A small, ridiculous, pathetic Karandyshev, preoccupied with his ever-infringed self-love. A loser, a snob and a caring father in one person.
A rare combination for the current cinema: detective intrigue and ambiguity of characters.
Everything's fine!
Several days in the lives of these families, including the day preceding the murder and the day after it, we look at the eyes of different heroes alternately. And with each new chapter, the original bourgeois lubok comes to life and turns into a completely realistic picture with a rich palette and a complex plot.
Everything's fine!
And suddenly - a clear violation of the laws of the detective genre! Until the end of the session, how many, and we already know exactly who the killer is.
But here’s the interesting thing: it doesn’t bother anyone! No wonder the director was nominated for the Academy Award. It doesn’t matter who ran into an unlucky cyclist in the dark. The incident revealed so many psychological misunderstandings in the relationship between the two families and within each of them that everyone is waiting: how will this end!
And it ends beautifully! Here it is – the real happy end is not matched by Hollywood. Those are good only for the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are bad. In the movie "Price of Man" there are no clearly cute characters. Not only Masimilano, who placed the corresponding inscription on the trunk, but everyone else deeply cares about others. Everyone wants to be a winner, or at least not miss a piece of the cake. But there are no evildoers, so there are no punished. Everyone gets theirs by and large. Some money, some prosperity, some love.
Everything's fine!
So what will change in the world for which this story is told? What is the idea, or, as they say in the theater, the “super-task” of the movie “Price of man”? And she, gentlemen, was in front of us from the very beginning. We were really being pushed into intrigue, into the main. But I and the other viewers remained in the dark until the very end, judging by the “sigh-ah” that rolled around the hall along with the last phrase sounded from the screen.