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Corporate Animals (2019)

Very truthfull

[8/10 · 3 January 2020]

A very boldly filmed extraordinary honest film on today's corporate culture and everyday relationships in the midst of the average western office plankton. The low score of IMDB, obviously, is explained by the fact that this same average representative of plankton saw in the movie heroes himself as in a mirror: vile and ordinary.

The film contains and, somewhere fervently and colorfully, somewhere disgusting, presents all the vices of a modern well-fed and bored society: cowardice, lack of compassion and empathy, inability to make decisions, social deviations, licentiousness, cowardice, universal scale hypocrisy, money-grubbing and , most importantly, ORDINARITY.

Week-ends (2014)

Accurate life story

[9/10 · 26 October 2019]

This is a good solid life movie. It is very strange that there are so few reviews. The score is not high. The audience who rated the film is few.

Week-ends is an amazing neat realistic movie about people who are 50 or so. The film captivates with the naturalness of its presentation. There are no stupidities and absurdities in it. The relationship between a man and a woman is shown without embellishment - exactly as they actually occur. I am simply amazed at why synthetic inventions like in Woody Allen's glamorous non-natural films are valued by viewers more than simple and vivid life stories that can and do happen to each of us.

This film needs to be known and seen.

Loveless (2017)

The end of the world is already here

[7/10 · 24 September 2017]

The case when the movie causes physical pain. If to characterize the film, I can say this: "You're asking if there will be an end of the world? But it has already come!".

On the one hand, the film shows a rather trivial situation, when the family is in trouble, there is no peace. Boredom and dullness. On the other hand, Evil is clearly shown as a form of total dislove. No one loves anybody: neither the mother the son, nor the husband wife, nor the man of man... Poor, lonely people are everywhere and forever.

Sofya Petrovna (1989 TV Movie)

Fascinating darkness

[8/10 · 30 July 2017]

The film is surprisingly not bad. The gloomy atmosphere of the hopelessness of the late 30s of the 20th century is well conveyed. It is noteworthy that in many respects the plot of the film correlates with the current situation in Putin's Russia. Everywhere a total lie, indifference, fear, bewilderment in the eyes of thinking people, anger in the eyes of the gray masses... A terrible and beautiful movie.

The most interesting are sketches from real life of people in the USSR. These are endless party meetings, where they brand the enemies of the people. This is the situation when Sophia Petrovna goes on a tram and sees how the old witch does not offer to sit a young woman with a baby, explaining that she (the witch) did not ride in trams when she was young.

The film certainly deserves to be viewed by those who do not understand what the Soviet Union was like.

Zashchitnik Sedov (1988)

«They can not be innocent, they confessed themselves!»

[8/10 · 30 July 2017]

Two themes are well revealed in the film. First: you can and need to step over your own fear in order to preserve your conscience. Second: in the country of scoundrels and bastards one can not do a good deed, it will still give rise to evil. The contradiction between these two statements can drive a person insane. This is such a specific Soviet paradox.

Yes, the film was shot during Perestroika. It has characteristic nuances of that times, but the main thing is that it's true. What else does a viewer need?