I was bored, so I decided to get into Russian TV series, the choice fell on this... creation.
The main plot is described in other reviews, and I would like to talk about the details of this work, which make you think that the idea of the series was too brilliant.
1. Time
Time in this picture is the most important joke, however, it is only a fiction. Yes, 18-year-old heroes, Simka and Vitka, over 6 years of childhood have changed so much that they have become like adults of so many forty years. It is interesting how much moonshine Vitka drank during his school years, that at 18 he got wrinkles, bristles and gray hair. . ?
There is nothing to say about Simka, she has not changed her appearance since the age of 18, except that in the last series she was made up and for several years she walked with this makeup. I didn't wash, I didn't rub, it's just a miracle! And the dress was worn for 15 years in a row (yes, the one that is brown and white peas), it is amazing how this thing withstood the everyday test of the household for such a period of time.
It is especially interesting when children are shown. Show a newborn Vanka, about to be born the other day, and he is already a one-year-old child the size of Simka herself. . .
2. Passions, many passions!
Here, Seraphim is such a smart girl, already in childhood she was such a hard worker, and when they took her to the orphanage, she shouted how Vitka loves, and then she came only to be with him. But what a passion Vitka has with Yerka! Walks by the sea, running to visit each other, exclaims "Yes, you took Vitka from me, toad!" and so on, so on, so on ... This is just a small part of the many passions and clarifying relationships. But one thing is for sure: each hero will have a second half. Even if the first one died. Simka has a writer Andrei, Marivanna has a developer (I don’t remember my name), Irka has numerous hahali, Vanka has that girl from the farm, and Valka has a guy from the farm. Okay, Irka is a pathetic woman, then she was deprived of her partner, and the ability to walk too, but now she lives with Serphima and together with her they go to the grave to Vitka for whom they fought all their lives. . .
3. Idea
The series resembles a game of crocodile. We are shown a large, harsh woman with pigtails and a gloomy look – and everyone already understands that she is a typical Russian woman. Show dressed made-up slim girl with a cunning look - you can immediately see that this is "mymra". In the frame appears unmarried 50-year-old woman who was already born with a hairstyle in the form of a wrapped braid - it is clear that this is a teacher. And so all 12 episodes, the same applies to the plot in principle. Yes, the creators show some nonsense, hands waving something, but every time you understand what cliché or stereotype they had in mind. You understand the essence of what is happening, but you understand that the creators simply did not have the skill to show the idea they wanted to show, so everything is distorted.
Not all women who have passed the test of life become like Seraphim. No woman should run after flawed men like Simka after drunk Vitka. Sima became successful - well done, but why her running after a dull and dull Vitashka is also shown as an achievement. Shame on you.
It is possible, and even necessary, to sit down to watch out of boredom, because it is fun to watch 18-child Vitka, who has been drinking for 20 years and drove on a tractor, and Simka, who for some reason is not a fix, but an uninteresting stupid character in the form of a big, stern woman. As a serious work to consider is not recommended.
Oh, this Russian cinema with its wonderful melodramas about the eternally suffering village women who can find their happiness if a series of unbearable sufferings and adversity pass. Well, at least once made the main character initially happy to her at least a little easier to live. But not this time of the Lord.
Seraphim beautiful is another series about the fact that if a girl was born in a remote village, and even a muzzle did not come out, then the verdict of fate cannot be avoided. . .
The plot is as simple as three pennies:
Seraphim is an ordinary Soviet girl who wants simple female happiness, like all girls, a beloved husband, two children and a horse farm. . . A dream, not a life. . .
But there is a small obstacle - bitchy and ambitious beauty Irina, which is also in Sima's misfortune in love Viktor Zorin - the first and only Simkin's love. . .
Well, that's the whole story. A love triangle is formed that lasts almost the entire series and turns it into Santa Barbara in a rustic way.
Immediately catches the eye cliché of the whole series and the main characters. When you watch it long and carefully, everything becomes too predictable.
The game of actors is at the level of "so-so", somehow everything is pretentious, theatrical or something. .
I was confused by the following:
1. The atmosphere. She's here from the beginning of the series to the very end, absolutely depressing, dreary and downright negative. Our main character begins to suffer from the first minutes and suffers throughout the series. I don’t understand why she had to be a pathologically unlucky character. Moreover, with her begin to suffer and others, one by one. You look and think, God, give the girl peace, let at least one episode live calmly, well, at least 20 minutes, at least 5 minutes. To suffer, to suffer and to suffer again. In addition, all this happens against the background of a dull playing harmonica. The creator of the series may be trying to show us that life in the countryside is not honey. The only allegedly positive distraction in the series was a conversation between two gossip grandmothers. But it didn't work out that way.
2. Appearance and character of the main character. . .
The creator of the series, as I understand it, tried to show us that an ugly girl born in the village is doomed to be a sufferer, who is given everything hard. I don't agree with that. Yes, and let's face it - Simka is not scary, not a top model, of course, but also not ugly. You know, this rural average, half the women in this country look like this. It's okay, they live.
But with the character screwed up, more precisely with the image of the main character. You see, the creator of the series wants us to see in Simka the standard of decency, nobility, kindness and honor. But the reality is different. The more you watch the series and get to know the heroine, the more you realize that before us is a stubborn selfish thunder-baba who climbs into other people's lives and makes other people's destinies, passing it all off as nobility. It's wrong. And I remember the moments when Sima ran into a burning house and the horse stopped - well, to God, all this is somehow too clichéd furnished.
3. Time intervals of events and changes in the appearance of the main characters.
This moment really amused me. In the first series, when the main characters are still schoolchildren of 8-10 years old, we see that certain events occur and they part. . .
And now it's been 6 years... Sima from a 10-year-old botanist turns into Nikolai Valuev. I guess she's barely anabolic for 6 years. Victor Zorin went from a cute boy to a 35-year-old alcoholic. But Maria Ivanovna (teacher) does not change at all throughout the film, even her clothes do not change, you could at least change your hairstyle or something for decency. Victor Zorin later also does not change, only the mustache grew. The only successful option here is Irina.
And to be honest, gentlemen, the characters do not change at all, except for Irina, who later realizes all her mistakes and repents. . .
In general, the series in principle is not bad for housewives who love such game, or girls who have been in similar situations.
4 out of 10
Only 3 episodes survived and watched the final. I didn't have much more.
But the impression of the series developed very quickly. Very negative, of course.
I don’t know about bored and aging housewives, lovers of such stories, but personally I would rather watch a movie about a normal self-sufficient woman than another suffering heroine. After all, in Seraphim the Beautiful, the stamp on the stamp sits and chases: the main character is an unhappy to the last limit, an ugly girl abandoned and deceived by everyone. You couldn't think of a more interesting image? Believe me, among my friends there are many people with, to put it mildly, unattractive external data, but this is almost not reflected in their communication with others and self-esteem. What a preconceived opinion: an ugly person, you see, must necessarily be an outcast, suffer and at the same time keep a good attitude to everyone. Ugly people may well live no worse than everyone else, we, probably, not only look oriented, but also on the brain, for example.
But with the brains, in my opinion, our Seraphim has a "beautiful" complete trouble. I've never seen anything more stupid than dragging a loved one into bed, getting pregnant with him and getting married for that reason. At the very least, it humiliates both. They'll never be happy. It's stupid and disgusting to do that. Who is the main character? Good, bright, good, warmth and rays of the sun to everyone. Why is she so selfish in her relationship with her husband? I would love him for real – I would not deceive him or encroach on his freedom with my “baba” methods.
All the other heroes were not happy either. The characters are too template: a fatal beauty of a village scale (looking 40 years old with a ponytail and very ordinary, although they do not argue about tastes), an ugly selfless sufferer, a pretty guy who is an apple of discord for them... It’s good that the series were small compared to their standard number in the Russian series (usually more than a hundred). This made it possible not to get confused in the relationship of the characters completely and not to turn a vague mud in the style of “he loves her, she is pregnant from another, another is in love with him, another is in love with another.” But there are no more advantages here, of course, because the actors, and the characters, and their actions are horror.
3 from 10
The movie is very interesting. The heroine really looks like a classic Russian woman who can overcome all difficulties, stop at nothing. And this character trait fascinates me! Let her go somewhere ahead, but life forces her not to go with the flow. And this all-forgiving love is just amazing. It looks strange, but Seraphim is a kind and sympathetic woman. She managed to forgive Irina, her rival.
This movie shows that you can’t look at your looks. Yes, Seraphim does not have the graceful charm of Irina, but she has that good female beauty and charm that will never go away with age.
I liked the kids in this movie. The hero of Dobrynin is very sweet and touching. The cardiologist is also memorable.
The movie is perfectly watchable. Music, nature - everything is very harmonious!
I watched at the country house last year during my illness, as there was nothing more to do and for the lack of color TV channels. The series made me feel a lot. The plot is utterly obliterated: an ugly duckling turns into a beautiful swan, albeit with a few amendments; the actors’ play is not too convincing (the exception is only two actors – little Sima and little Victor, he is also a little Ivan later); there is a lack of some highlight in the characters of the characters. I liked the music at some point.
Why not write a negative review?
First of all, I can’t say that I didn’t like everything at all – the children’s actors in the first series were very impressed. Secondly, I do not want to spoil, and without my efforts, the bad rating of the series.
I can’t say that my opinion is due to the fact that this is Russian cinema. There are movies and movies I would love to see. But Seraphim is not the option. Perhaps it is not bad for those who are very bored and who have nothing to do themselves or for single women of old, well, or housewives. But I didn't like him very much. Forgotten.
Bottom line: my assessment for this series
3 out of 10
(A score for little Sima, for little Vitya and for musical accompaniment).
Yesterday I was personally convinced of the terrible decline of Russian TV series. Since my mother can not imagine life without them (tractorists Nikolai and village brooches Nastena are already family members), I made her company watching a serial miracle called “Seraphima the Beautiful”. In general, it all began with the love of a village girl-awards in big glasses and the growth from peas to a blue-eyed classmate who terribly resembled Dima Somov from “Stuffed”. Everything is like in life - lets write off, forgives offenses and further according to Freud. Suddenly, both parents die in an accident (the truck driver was drunk and the turn failed), and she is determined in an orphanage. Before leaving, Goroshin throws himself at the neck of Dima Somov and begs not to forget Simka, then beat yourself. He was 10 years old at the time. Okay.
It takes 6 years.
Seraphim returns to her parents' home. For six years Goroshina turned into Semyon Slepakov with two liquid braids and growth from Peter the Great. Well, her high bass could envy Fedor Ivanovich himself.
Meanwhile, Dima Somov turns into an alcoholic (he's 16, aha) harvester (?), spinning an affair with the cute milkmaid's daughter. Both without a king in their head, but full of joy hormones in a place below the navel and above the knee. The choice of actors puzzled me, since the young harvester was clearly played by a 35-year-old mushshshchina, with a net of wrinkles, graying on the temples and clearly not blue eyes. His friend, although he had a bebiface a la “drunk and you will not get out”, also did not pull on the young and hot friend of the trachtorist.
Meanwhile, mom goes to bed. However, I decided to check how widespread my masochism was and continued to patiently eat the cactus.
Figure three.
Seraphim-Slepakov invites his combine harvester (to remember his parents / fix the roof). Feeds boiled potatoes and bundles of green onions. Looks gloomy. I thought I'd fight back. Dude even bends under her gaze. Smells - rapists, already the decanter has drunk (drinking like a horse), and the harvester is already drinking painfully actively. I would not have resisted in his place, because there were no specific chances here.
After all, so many terrible films I watched for life, horror films, thrillers, a gloomy arthouse, after which I wanted to hang myself, and trembled at the time when Slepakov-Seraphima went “Where are you looking at night, I will give you a sofa.”
In general, a terrible thing, TV series Russian. Tresh, frenzy and sodomy.