Overcoming Earth's gravity As a good story is preferable to a long boring novel, so a successful short is more interesting than an endless soap opera. "In Aldebaran!" This is a film about the temptation of choice.
The main character of the picture has a standard set of everyday difficulties of the Soviet man. Close communal apartment with prolonged repairs, a musician-neighbor (an analogue of a “neighbor with a puncher”), an unloved job with a salary, over which it is time to cry, a fool boss and a lack of prospects. Until one day a change in the face of a mysterious stranger knocks at his door.
Global change often takes us by surprise when we are not ready. They are not ready to take risks, to change their habitual existence, to sacrifice something. Disconnect from the circle of household worries, overcome the earthly attraction, raise your eyes to the sky. So this engineer guy is faced with the strangest choice of his life. Common sense struggles in it with human greed, temptation by power, and even the eternal “as long as the neighbor does not get it.”
The film exceeded my modest expectations. "In Aldebaran!" the easiest way to describe a quote from him: "It was designed well, executed - and even better." Not pretending to be a genius, however, retains attention and even intriguing. Easily recognizable songs from the Soviet past harmoniously fit into the canvas of the plot. Anyway, you can watch. I recommend reading it.
If someone scares away the genre of fiction, I hasten to console. You can look at the film from a completely different angle and see the plot of a crime detective on the theme “black realtors with a rich imagination”, well, or the element of a romantic thriller on the theme “wife’s lover with a non-standard thinking” (I swear, not a spoiler!) Just a version. A unique opportunity to choose your own genre.
Either way:
Citizens, be vigilant with strangers! I don’t think it’s too much...
8 out of 10
(Plus for Vyacheslav Baranov, who is organic in roles of any caliber and complexity)