A box of Swedish vodka This is a comedy with action elements, as written. And this is about migration (yes, hello to the 2016-2017 news feeds). But take your time laughing. For laughter through these tears.
First of all, it’s about living in a communist paradise. And you really understand this fear when the lives of entire nations are taken hostage to the ideas of communism and a brighter future. The movie feels that way. The inability to live as I would like, meaningless and inevitable Afghanistan, the nomenclature in bars and restaurants, and after all, I would like just ordinary, human, live communication and environment. It is better to die under bullets or drown in the cold of the Baltic Sea than to go back and live the rest of your life without any bright prospects. These pathos and determination are really bribing. But you can't swim too far. This is a beautiful picture at the moment of crossing!
And then the second terrible blow: the social corral, like any prison on the territory of the endless, breaks not only the present, but also the future of man. Makes it maladaptive to the surrounding reality outside the perimeter protected by machine guns. As any closed environment forms its own mores and patterns of behavior, they are formed by the regime object of the SSR. And our heroes have to answer for their desire to dream. Years lived outside a developed society cannot be without a trace. The more you get drunk, the worse you get.
Morality is not new: free cheese is in a mousetrap. Or rather, you can not easily pull the fish out of the pond. But only wider: even the most hardworking patient will not eat fish: he will only swallow scraps. Or perhaps to each his own: who is ready to die heroically, he is not ready to crawl at all? And vice versa. It is true that it is unjust and unreasonable to demand and expect heroic acts from the ordinary majority. And where is the line between the circumstances of force majeure and the consequences of one’s own decisions and actions?
However, it has not gone unnoticed that despite all the lies, pretenses and unfitness of the “communist society”, at least something good still exists: at least our heroes, for all their antisociality, are firm at least within their own attitudes. To serve, to serve, to serve sickly.
The film is also relevant for Russia: the tougher and more humiliating the laws and realities of labor migration, the higher the anger and penchant for crime among immigrants. And the program of socialization and labor arrangement of visitors is a thin thing.