Poker: Smoking, drinking, speaking Latin "Bangs" is an absolutely great picture.
This is Balabanov's ability to finish to the end, to twist the screw.
What's so funny? Absolute consistency.
Here he removed everything, not giving the illusion of exit, removed everything as it is,
He poked people into reality with all his artistic power.
And, of course, Balabanov remains a brilliant chronicler.
Our emotional state.
Dmitry Bykov. "One" on Echo of Moscow. Ether from 06 May 2016
"Separate thanks from the director"
Sergey Mikhailovich Selyanov and Alexey Oktyabrinovich Balabanov"
The last title of the film “Pilkom Kuril”.
Gentlemen! For more than a year, there is a film that was shot by a co-author of the script “Zhmurok”. Isn't that interesting?
There are almost no reviews (I have not found them).
Probably a poster with skeletons and pistols will attract the attention of young viewers to the film, but let me speak to a simple pensioner.
Stas Mokhnachev, both as a writer and as a director, showed us Hell in a concentrated and emotionally perfect way. Personalized by: Ad Poker. And purely local: the name of the film with two Old Slavic "er-ami" and without punctuation marks, the name of the evil major-pimp, and, of course, the brain-shattering-ballalaic luminary-month ... (respect Hulahoop for the overall sound)
The beginning of the film - credits against the background of a clip panorama of the other world, and immediately in the forehead:
The hum is quiet. I went to the stage.
Leaning against the door jamb,
I'm catching in a distant echo,
What will happen in my lifetime?
And here we go.
During the first minutes we receive greetings from the movie about the 90s from the actors: Pavel Maikov (“Brigade”), Grigory Siatvinda (“Zhmurki”), to the end of the film: Maxim Konovalov (“Boomer”). We understand that their characters from past films could not be anywhere but hell.
The authors throw various manifestations of fire and smoke into the furnace of sensations: bright shots, dust from powder, a story about a dream with a witch in flames, the upcoming torch from a gasoline-drenched major (the scene in the ATS is hello from Terminator 1 and Brother 2).
And stirs all this brew the main character - Poker (translated from English "poker" - "poker").
And coexist with the inhabitants of this new eternal shelter and I. Grozny (through Cherkasov and a poster over the sofa), and I. Stalin (through the mustache of Poker and the nickname of the cop and his remark), and the inhabitants of the “bad apartments” (through hochma about Bulgakov), and Vasily Ivanovich C. with the campaign, and the bandit Kosov from the 70s (O. Dahl in the film “Golden Mine”), and other residents of the cemetery 13th site ... And a constant reminder of the authors of the film (by pictures on T-shirts) about the talented predecessors. How many books did they bring with them? And how many times do the authors return us to the Field (“we must first understand what this field is”), where Poker reads from the monologue of the gravedigger from the same “Hamlet”:
But quietly old age approached
And I took my hand.
And everything ran away without a trace.
I don't know where...,
a Valya holds under his arm a volume of Shakespeare from the "Golden Fund of World Classics" with this text. And to dig in the Field they will be breast "Makarov" (hello to the director Khotinenko and the writer Zalotukha). And talk without knowing that they are still only shadows from a movie in a movie theater with no audience.
I think the cunning writers put into the film the principle of poker, formulated by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth: Whenever you play a combination different from how you would play if you saw the cards of all your opponents, they win; and whenever you play the combination as you would if you saw all their cards, they lose. Conversely, whenever the opponents play their combinations differently from how they would, seeing all your cards, you win; and whenever they play the combinations in the same way as if they saw all your cards, you lose.
I’m far from card games, but I feel like this: “Whenever...” is the inner mixer of the action, alternating the scenes of the film.
How skillfully built the scene with the "Samaritian". How filled with biblical things this first meeting of Poker and Vali.
The modern “Magdalena” named Sveta, although hiding the cross under the dress before making the right decision about the fate of Major Berezkin, doused with gasoline, still becomes “Salome” (in the credits – Anna), committing her Deed. (Low bow to the two Marys - Kunah and Gorban).
This is a film about where we are not.
For someone, he is entertainment through the aesthetics of “Pulp Fiction” and “The Godfather” (“I don’t have a horse ...”), beauty in the American way.
And for me:
- the transformation of bob marly-evsky "No, Woman, No Cry" by intonation - "No women, no tears";
- slow reading of a refrain from the "Reding prison" by Sergei Aprilsky (another hello from the "Brigade"):
Indeed, everyone who has lived in the world,
Killed loved ones,
One is cruel, the other is cruel.
Poison of praise,
A coward is a kiss, he who dares.
It's a dagger.
(Per. N. Voronel
- clowning with glasses when pouring and drinking vodka under the portrait of FED;
- not yet noticed (not deciphered) cute little things, although the film I have already disanatomized pretty.
After all, if I had so many associations and emotions, maybe the authors of this film was shot just for me.
And the final question of Poker: "Am I dead?" receives from me the answer: there is no death, my friend, and your immortality in the constant transitions from the acid sleep of the camera obscura - then in the monochrome field of non-life, then in the hall without other spectators ... and back ...
Did you think that “To be able to enjoy your life is to live twice”? .
So what? Did you enjoy it?
And don’t ask “Pray for us...” from a beautiful picture.
The field is passed and "Makarov" is not open.
Small you pooped into the pot, and large – into the soul.
To my soul.
So you slept through everything, gentlemen I.G., I.V. and other poker.
And I want to finish with Dmitry Bykov:
"Life has no value;
Life is not that.
What is given to you,
and then
What are you doing?
It has been turned.
(13th Apostle). Mayakovsky.
10 out of 10