Film - 2070

What will be the movie in 50 years? You can probably say what it will not be. It will not be what it was in the twentieth century. And even at the beginning of the XXI. The remaining forecasts are from the field of unscientific fantasy.

But not being the way we are used to, it will not be completely different. If anyone hopes for this, then completely in vain.

The future in some cunning mirror reflects the past. This is distorted, but still a reflection. Otherwise, there will be nothing, because the future as such - autonomous and abstract - does not exist.

Last year in Berlin, I participated in a conference on the film "Stalker". One scientific lady read a report called "Cinema in contaminated places." She talked about Istern with John Wayne “Conqueror”: during the filming in Nevada, a nuclear test was carried out in the mid-1950s nearby, after which several participants in the picture died of cancer.

And then a parallel with the Stalker sounded: he starred in the polluted zone, in addition, the director’s work with actors were “non -emotional”. And then for several years the Tarkovsky, Solonitsyn, and Grinko (all from oncology), then Kaidanovsky passed away ... The fact that almost all were avid smokers is not important, the conclusion is proposed as follows: something was unclean with this film and its author.

And art now according to the new rules should be sterile. Forget the words of Thomas Mann that healthy respectable people with a good character, right views and crystal moral appearance (in general, “environmentally friendly”) do not write novels, do not compose music ... And they are unlikely to make films if the films are understood by Hitchcock, Bergman, Bertolucci, Polansky, Tarantino ... and the same Tarkovsky.

And we also went through this, only in other forms. The future in which we are called, in which there will be new creators, a new public, a new consciousness, sterile art and ecological sex, is very reminiscent of communism, which is not built by carriers of its “moral code” by 1980. This was prevented by the 1956th, 1968th and-already post-facts-1986 and 1991. This will happen in the future; And a new sexual revolution, and a new restructuring, only as they are called, are not allowed to find out.

Andrey Plakhov, film critic,
Observer of the newspaper "Kommersant"