The Farce of Personality Coincidences Let’s not be too weeping about the state of contemporary domestic comedies. At least now. Now that there is even the slightest hope that comedies can be watchable. Why is it there? Because there are really talented people in Russia from time to time who are able, if not to lift the industry as a whole, then try to make a small step towards progress.
Philip Korshunov has been working on several series and a couple of short films. "Full Transformation" is his full-length debut. The screenwriter was not causing any persistent negative associations Pavel Sanayev. There was a lot going on here, believe me. The actors are unknown guys. Also talented. Because it's one thing to play a role. The other is to play the role of someone in a completely different guise. A man who doesn't understand what he looks like, because he's the same to himself. If you’re confused right now, well, don’t be an actor in a movie like this.
So this is a very intricate story. It is easy to observe its development, if not distracted. And here's creating... Here you need to have not only creative enthusiasm, coupled with intelligent brains, but also angelic patience, the ability not to get entangled in a bunch of invented personalities who need to change bodies for a while. Unfortunately, Sanayev and Korshunov made some mistakes. Heroes sometimes behave too naively, as if not not noticing what kind of game is happening right before their eyes. In reality, everything that happened would turn into either mass psychosis or a sudden sensation. Well, it is impossible for so many people to behave as if the circumstances that arise are quite normal and tolerant! In view of this, the film automatically becomes a fairy tale, infested with small, albeit such amusing errors, mainly related solely to the behavior and susceptibility of the characters.
But let's take a look at history as a whole. Despite the creative pun approach, despite the finale, which left rather strange impressions in visual terms (it ended too quickly), there is one big plus. Schematically, the script suggests confusion, but it is very glad that both the director who presented the story as it should, and the cast, each member of which clearly understood what he was doing, and looked authentic, coped with the confusion. The sequence of events is also developing in the right direction. Of course, the predictability of the main story transitions (like the fact that first the magic screen works correctly, and then, after a certain incident, creates all sorts of hooliganism) slightly smooths out the positive impression, but I cannot come up with another one personally either. Perhaps a more sophisticated mind is needed here.
In search of a common morality, Sanayev acted cunningly in his own script. What does “complete transformation” teach us? The fact that no apparatus in principle is not necessary, and the miracle thing, throwing one on another, and the other on the third, in fact, changed not so much. Progress was behind the main character himself - sincerity led to the establishment of his personal life, and he solved business issues with the help of books, the names of which could simply be asked from his charming business coach (which is much more real than the stir). And there is a dissonance here: if life is so easy, why did you need a magic photo screen scanner? It is enough to give the hero more determination. So the screen is just an assistant in motivation? The film gives unexpected meanings, and you seem to even realize their sudden usefulness (the moral is that everything depends on a person, right?), but the idea does not let go of the idea that you were a little so, creating a kind of fairy tale, putting at the head of a certain apparatus that produces miracles ... And then, stunned by the message that the device was not needed – it only needed an excuse to start changing and changing the world around you.
Oh, yeah, there's still humor. We were watching a comedy, weren't we? Fiction was dealt with, and the ridiculous effect slightly lost its position. I can not fully call the picture comedic, because the humor here is sometimes really accurate, able to entertain, and in some places either quite ordinary or too pale. However, this is not a significant disadvantage. Rather, a forced assumption, because the creators were not the simplest idea-confusion, which should be dealt with, in view of which they did not have time to fill the timekeeping with a decent number of jokes, hochms and gags. Maybe they didn't. Forgive me.
So, I think "Full Transformation" is a good project. To the best, he would have been a small step, unfortunately, ruined by real trifles, most likely more generated by perception, as well as the moral ambivalence of the plot, which seems to teach good, but does it so intricately that you can not immediately get used to such a pitch. And finally, I hope that everyone who took part in the shooting has a great creative future. It is worth learning from the mistakes, but in general, the guys really tried at least not to adjust - and this is very commendable, given how many Russian comedies are now.
6 out of 10