Who's the provocateur? From the very beginning of Provocateurs 2, its creators begin to lie to us about the fact that many people are at war with the Church. What is really going on in our country? At the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Church, various laws are adopted in our state, children are taught the OKP, places for prayer appear in schools, laws on “insulting the feelings of believers” have begun (and this is direct discrimination against atheists and agnostics, their feelings do not bother anyone, although they are constantly insulted). Deputies always consult exclusively with Orthodox priests. So the so-called “acts of vandalism” are an act of counterattack, not an attack on the Church. In my opinion, the war with the inhabitants of Russia who do not share the views of the ROC is waged by many representatives of the ROC.
Mammoths catch footage in which members of the group Pussy Riot smile and laugh. It’s like there’s really nothing to laugh at. Although from the speeches of those who in court accused the group Pussy Riot, I wanted and want to cry until now, because in their speeches there were so many things that looked funny from the outside, that the fact that this is not a show, that this is serious, looked just terrible.
How many times in the movie is the word “sacrilege” spoken? I don't know. Mammoths pronounce it clearly. Alexey Vesniak pronounces it, stuttering. How clever, how stupid all this looks. Anyway. In a secular state, there should be no propaganda associated with such things as blasphemy and blasphemy. Also such expressions as “propaganda of sin”, “shock for normal people”. Well, I'm a crazy person, then. However, the fact that such propaganda is being carried out in our country is the reason that someone starts organizing anti-Christian acts of vandalism. But Mamontov does not even hide the fact that the Orthodox religion is state-forming. I don’t see anything wrong with that, either.
Archbishop Mark in the film, stuttering, utters such nonsense as “If many knew the real name of this group, Pussy Riot, which translates as “a mad female sexual organ rebelled,” I think many would lose the desire to protect, protect these women.” The translation of the words “pussy” and “riot” in Russia everyone knows. And in other countries, much more so. Although the first meaning of the word “pussy” is not “female sexual organ” but “cat”, the second is “earring”, the third is “coarse lover”, the fourth meaning is “feminine man”. And only the fifth meaning of the word is coarse “vagina” (and there is nothing to be afraid of this word). And for some reason, a good (far better than this archbishop’s) knowledge of English did not prevent the protection of the group, for example, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Lena Katina and many others.
Finally, the Mammoths and the murder of two women (whose killer wrote on the wall “Free Pussy Riot”), accused, in fact, members of the group. As if the audience are idiots, and do not understand that such methods are trying to hide the traces of a crime. Political hype is particularly effective.
Mamontov asks in the film the question “Who benefits from this?” And immediately begins to bring together the Pussy Riot group with Boris Berezovsky (political side), and with Ivan Shapovalov (musical side). Well, the audience doesn't know who Ivan Shapovalov is, let them watch him jump cheerfully. Well, a lie shown only on one side is hard to make believable. Arkady Mamontov did not succeed, which is not surprising - obscurantism and talent are incompatible.
It is a nightmare that such openly clerical propaganda films are made in our country. It remains to express the hope that someday our state will be secular, free, and everyone will have their own right - what to consider blasphemy, sin, blasphemy, and what not, what to consider culture and what not.
Below the plinth.