Wealth, sex, blackmail and payback through the eyes of a young man A Norwegian (or maybe a Norwegian?) Knut Müller-Lien once not only wrote a book (which did not reach the Russian translation due to the lack of any interest in it in Russia), but also filmed this story to satisfy his own creative idea, heroically spitting on the desire to become famous at its expense. I dare to believe that the new writer and director had enough potential for only one story - and more was not needed. From the proposed material we learn about the fate of a guy engaged in prostitution with old oligarchs and subsequent blackmail, blinded by the idea of childhood - to become very rich.
I will not talk about how many paintings identify with one of their existence simple to tears morality: crime and big money will never bring happiness, because you have to pay for everything. This simple, almost amateur film could be suitable for one-time viewing, if not for some assumptions that spoiled the already fragile impression of it.
The problem is that from the very beginning, “Sebastian’s World” does not try to hide from the viewer how superficial and ill-conceived everything here is. Narrative, going behind-the-scenes, placing the story on all conceivable shelves, leaving no room for their own guesses. Extremely understandable characters, leading extremely accessible for “digesting” dialogues. Retold in the first minutes of the finale, issued by an extensive spoiler, after which you can cut off even the thought that at least in something further will follow unpredictability. Marked only by a single, ridiculously naive episode, the motivation of the heroes, which forced Sebastian to step on the “slippery slope”. Not always smooth play of actors, especially reflected in the display of sensuality between men, which gives the impression - these roles were performed by ardent homophobes, so through "I can't" performed any gestures of affection and manifestations of tenderness, hugs and kisses on the cheek.
All the drama of the main conflict is lost behind the list of these shortcomings, and the inexperience of Knut Müller-Lien (sorry, I do not know how to translate into Russian the initials of the director and screenwriter) manifests itself in almost every scene, no matter how he (or she?) tried to approach his work with love (which is especially evident, more precisely, heard in the manic selection of various musical compositions that occupy exactly more than half of the session as a soundtrack against the background).
As a result, the tragic fairy tale about the guy-prostitute-blackmailer is deprived of proper submission, turning from a potentially acute idea into a weak, only partially watchable implementation - into a film too raw to be fully believed.
4 out of 10