They need to survive, survive as they can, survive as they can. Delicious visualization, the charm of Mother Russia, beautiful St. Petersburg with its panoramas - and at the first musical accompaniment, one question is "Guys, what are you doing?" What are you doing, guys? blood is coming out of your ears. More and more foreign backgrounds appear in domestic cinema, why? Take it away. In the West, we more than eat (precisely devour!) from the shelves of supermarkets, stuff their stomachs to gastritis, why so cruelly and rudely shove it into the domestic cinema, why?
And what kind of plot - about Russian business, rotten intelligentsia and about orphaned cubs who with their fangs and claws try to snatch a piece of simple life for themselves and after every slap in the face, first try to believe and love, and then it remains only to defend and take revenge. In order to survive, survive as they can, survive as they can. The thirst for revenge grows and fills itself so much that it triggers a mechanism of depreciation and self-destruction. Revenge begins to kill itself, begins to kill everything around.
The main role of Vera Panfilova - coped perfectly. The character is dynamic, absorbing all the fear, alienation, resentment, pain and rage from the injustice of life. Injustice this heroine swallowed, savored and spit out. It turned out what happened - and it turned out strongly, powerfully. And the naive, trembling, transparent soul of Vera, she is, she is alive, only hidden deep and tampered with the heavy press of the protective shell. The character of Faith is a struggle of motives and incentives, it is a fierce war in the present on the ashes of a past life, which was taken from her.
“If in the roles of Fears – the film should be watched” – such a comment is necessarily for the next premiere with the participation of this famous and beloved audience, the actor. And in this movie, Strakhov decides to experiment with a character falling out of the usual role of a knight of a sad image, romantic, so male and brutal. And who do we see on screen? Fears nervous, comes to hysterics, his facial expressions distorted in the most tragic masks, weakness, provocation and blackmail? The character, as if on hinges, if he had released firefighters with his tongue or jumped with a besenkom, it would only add a sprinkle of fiction, but the plot would hardly spoil.
The wonderful tandem of Strakhov is made up of the characters of Sklyar and Sinyavsky, not devoid of sound gyrus and experience. And here, note that the rotten intelligentsia is prone to empathy for each other and, moreover, emotionally dependent on the objects of their hatred, destroying their lives, taking away their power and destroying their value system. They pity each other, they destroy each other with pity.
Dubakina is good in her sincerity to the point of madness, in her emotionality to tears with hail and sobbing in her voice. The image of a military friend, bright, bold and trusts to the very veins, one can dream of and hope that maybe someday we will be lucky to meet such, but still, in some other, other life.
Novitsky and Isaykina are controversial characters who first learn to swim - and then begin to slap themselves in the head with a hanging. They start learning again. But again to extend a helping hand to those who last time tried to clench it on the elbow, quite scary and dangerous.
Kudrenko, bravo. From the usual average man in the known roles of an actor, to such metamorphoses with reincarnation, this is a new level for the actor himself and for the actor in the eyes and imagination of his audience.
Waha, a rather impressive image in this film, appears in the frame as "part of the force that always wants evil and eternally does good." The viewer believes him, the actor steadily keeps the mood and attention, his character draws dense illusions of the strategist and logician, which instantly crumble and cease to exist from the action of the wounded ego of his opponent.
In general, it remains to be added that the movie is recommended for viewing. The plot, it would seem, is simple and quite ordinary, but there are curls of the narrative line in it, which when viewed take the viewer in a completely unexpected direction. Emotions and experiences of the characters occupy the central content, are withdrawn from the background. And a good cast of actors copes with this. The second season is definitely going to be.
Thanks for the movie. Enjoy your viewing, everyone.