You will see a miracle, an amazing miracle. Anatoly Petrov’s “Miracle” differs little from his “Blue Meteorite”: only if there are cosmic spaces, some kind of anxiety, a semi-mystical expectation of fatal inevitability, then there is a dynamic movement, a feeling of urbanized tightness and opposition to soulless technocratic dynamics – natural statics. Asenin writes about the bright colors and romance of youth – well, bright colors is yes, Petrov’s style generally comes from pop art, where there are no bright colors in principle, but the romance of youth? He doesn’t say that youth is cool, there is almost no such idea in any of his films; on the contrary, his works, including Miracle, are very disturbing, full of fear for the future in which our children will find themselves, and it is the moments that show children’s games and fun, the weakest in terms of atmosphere and emotional tension.
It is interesting how the works of Anatoly Petrov influenced the environmental theme in Russia: they remained a kind of niche product, or still? .