Image of the enemy

has been remembered more and Lately, an old political joke more often , appropriate on April 1, when old jokes go especially well. A Jew comes to the clinic and asks where the ear and eye doctor is. “We don’t have such a doctor,” they answer him. “There is an otolaryngologist who can look at the ear, throat, nose; there is an ophthalmologist...” - “No, I need an ear and eye.” - “We don’t have such a doctor. And what, in fact, worries you?” - “You understand, I hear one thing on the radio, but see something completely different.” - “So it’s not a doctor you need. But an injection. Through a vein .”

An ordinary TV viewer today often encounters the same obvious or audible discrepancy. Between what is said from the official platforms (for the third year now) and, accordingly, what is then broadcast by all the news programs, what he sees next door on the same channels.

This or that official representative talks about patriotism, for example, or the absence of certain “national issues,” and then comes the next episode of “Special Forces.” Everything seems to indicate that they are trying to introduce a fashion for normal work from above (against the instant enrichment of the “oligarchic type”, especially since there seem to be no free places among the oligarchs), and all the new TV shows, all the TV games are built on this the same principle of luck, instant enrichment, for which you do not need any special knowledge or skills. "Field of Miracles", in which one "Ivan the Fool" - the host plays against three, or rather nine, truly "ignorant", became the prototype for all other games of the current television decade.

But - to "Special Forces". I wanted to say: because this is serious. But TV games are also serious, since the way of life, the model of behavior that all these games (and even the current “What? Where? When?”) promote, offer as an achievable ideal, diverges from traditional values. With those to whom today they are trying to appeal again.

And yet - about "Special Forces" ( ORT ), a "long-range" television series, the first three episodes were broadcast last week, the next ones in the last credits are promised in early autumn.

Special project about a special forces detachment. The announcements ran for almost a month; the Lyube group sang about hardships and deprivations, chanting the harsh romance of military service. The “bad” bearded Islamists were preparing mines and exploding something, “ours” were firing back... A hangar artistically covered with camouflage netting, some on an armored personnel carrier, some on a tank, some in the covered back of a truck. Nikolai Rastorguev sings: “Come on for life, come on for us and for Siberia and the Caucasus.” This clip was first played on February 23, the Day of the Soviet Army and Navy, and the film premiered a month later. A month of continuous “Come on...”. Willy-nilly I had to look.

What is the film about, in which all the best combat-ready actors starred - Baluev , Kravchenko, Porechenkov , Galkin?.. The now fashionable "military" style is correlated with the real plot. The actors, they say, filmed in conditions as close as possible to combat. As they say, the truth and nothing but the truth.

"Special Forces", which was also advertised as the first Russian action series, directed by Andrei Malyukov from a script written by Elena Raiskaya , Alexey Poyarkov and Nikolai Suslov, is a film about enemies. Yes, not about friends and comrades, about battles and fires, which is what “war” films are usually made about (be it Russia or the real Hollywood), but about enemies. Where there are mountains, there are only enemies. No others. Just in case, they didn’t even bring in some, even the most ancient, endangered old Chechen or non-Chechen woman who would give water to a wounded soldier to drink. There was no place for her in the film. A highlander boy grateful to an internationalist warrior who carries a child out of the fire, in his arms, like the monumental liberator warrior on duty in Treptow Park . There is no such episodic hero in the film.

“Chechens” are enemies, murderers, everyone without exception.

The morality of a person forced to maintain a perimeter defense is the code of honor of the real heroes of Spetsnaz. On a combat mission, they are fighting an unequal battle with an enemy who is undermining the Russian economy by flooding our market with counterfeit dollars, so that the “shadow of the donkey” for which the special forces are howling has become the dollar matrix. She threatens Russia. A small metal bar that causes people to die and causes explosions. Literally dying. Literally for metal.

But even in “peaceful” life, they - special forces - fight. And again against everyone. They - in the very end and, as they say, for the sake of laughter (and in the plot - for humor, and - to defuse the previous bloodshed) climb up the drainage pipe to the hotel and resolutely crush the Korean presentation of some martial arts club. They were not recognized by sight, which causes the satisfaction of the immediate commander and superior officer in high-star uniform ( Andrey Tolubeev ).

This is the story. This is the philosophy.

In previous terms, "Special Forces" is a film on a military-patriotic theme. As such - without special articulation - it was presented to the public. And therefore, it’s time to talk about changing patriotic guidelines, because patriotism, which stands for war “against everyone,” relying only on a friend (in essence, also not much different from a bandit), is not the same as patriotism of the traditional sense. And this is not at all what was meant by the words about the need for a new state ideology.