Kill the monster!

From the editorial office. Recently, the third film of Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev "Elena" was released on the screens. Vladimir Golyshev wrote for the "Russian magazine" the text about the heroes and anti -heroes of our time bred in this film.

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The third film by Andrei Zvyagintsev is not as simple as it seems. And it seems he is impeccably made, exquisite the concise "art house". Elena, of course, is praised. Repeat the dull banners about “alienation” and “conflict”. Sympathize with the main character. They say: after the alkali films, the director sharply turned the steering wheel to the left and removed the “acute” tape. Like, he abandoned philosophical generalizations in favor of the rough specifics of harsh Russian everyday life. Well done!..

I raised my head for a long time, which makes the shallow, in general, people to carry all this nonsense? After all, the naked eye shows that Elena is an absolutely western film. Such “Khrushcheb” with a view of the CHP in bulk not only in Eastern Europe, but also in Mr. Great London, and the Gopnika there are indistinguishable from ours. And vice versa, the hero of Andrei Smirnov is completely atypical for Russia. The Englishman is some of the Midl Class. Ovsyanka, fitness, will, lawyer. And for the very soul - “Audi”, an apartment, and a liquid pile of ruble “cutlets” in a safe. Is he "Office Plankton"? Or a dental doctor? Remove from the TV of the Malakhovs and other “Channel One”, and nothing will remain from the vaunted Russian “specifics”. Only Russian names, and the valiant Russian army, because of which the "Englishman", in fact, glued the flippers before the deadline.

In general, Zvyagintsev again shot a film-entry. It’s just that this time he preferred an uncomplicated peeping in the heroes of the lens of a fixed chamber. Not because it is "fashionable." Because for a new parable, it is precisely this unknown cinema linguistic to the viewer. To make it more painful ...

A set of misconceptions from which I started is a natural consequence of a substitution dictated by the instinct of self -preservation. If Elena is a film about a specific woman, you can loosen a tie knot and fall apart in a chair. At hand, a ready -made set of "spicy" banalities - choose to taste. And if not? .. And here it becomes scared. The soil leaves under the feet. The floor becomes a ceiling, and the ceiling becomes a floor ...

In the best book by Edward Limonov, another Russia is an amazing chapter “Monster with tearful eyes”. Evil Narcissus hits a lot: your mothers are your enemies! They tore your eggs, obscured the sun with fat carcass, confused their breath, poisoned the well of life and prevent it from dying beautifully. Because with a son-ugon, they seem to be like a heroine mother, saints, ascetics. And this is so nice - to swim in the rays of sympathy and admiration! He puts it not childishly. One injection is enough - and you will not get down. For the rest of your life, you will, shoaling your head, click from the wallet crumpled papers "son for vodka." Or husband ... "Why are you salting cucumbers? Do you want your husband to drink? " - the golden -core Sokolov in the "Little Faith" is perplexed. “You might think if I don’t salt - he won’t drink?” Zaitseva answered in chemistry. And her eyes ran ...

Last year, one such monster destroyed the foreign girl. Sandra. From Portugal. It was like that. The-Russian alcoholic threw the child. The middle -aged married couple came out, surrounded by care and affection. The girl was baptized, she went to school. In general, the child’s life was a success. But here, in the Russian outback, in the rickety hut, the mother of an alcoholic (“heroine”, of course!) Sub-have a dose ... As a result, a Portuguese girl, not a word of Russian, was transferred closer to Russian birches. There they put a bruise under her eye and explained that the Russians were not bite after the first ...

The most interesting thing in this story (it has not yet ended) is the ovation in which the monster-dushegub was redeemed. Alcoholic - yes, condemned. But in the heroism of the "grandmother" almost no one doubted! To see a simple truth - the old woman sacrificed someone else's child so that everyone sympathizes with her - the Russians could not. Or did not want to. Too scary. Because if the mother-heroine is “a monster with tearful eyes”, then how, excuse me, live? After all, nothing of the saint, it turns out! Only the wind is buzzing in the wires. The stars are finched.

An irresistible desire to reduce Zvyagintsev’s new film to Socialka has the same nature. If the film is not about a specific woman who “loved so much that she killed”, and about “a monster with tearful eyes”, then the legs of a stool with a crunch break and everything flies upside down. And it hurts to fall ...

Zvyagintsev is merciless. Elena does not leave his panties a single chance. This is not a person, but a walking symbol. He does not have a face, but a mask on which there is always the same grimace: universal sorrow with a note of reproach. In this mask, she watches Malakhov, gets out of bed after sex, rides in a tram, kills, destroys evidence, lies in a stepdaughter, doctor, lawyer. The role is almost without words. If Elena opens her mouth, then she is going to reproach someone for “heartlessness” or to lie. Therefore, she hides her eyes. Especially when talking with Katya, who sees her through. And in the viper at the "Son", she is stupidly silent. Because the “son” himself, and the daughter -in -law, and grandchildren for Elena are only the scenery against which she is the heroine. Who is talking to the scenery? What to talk about with them? .. “You play the role of a caring wife well,” Katya throws her. "Here is a bitch!" -the monster thinks, and looks somewhere to the side. Watch your neck do not turn, mother Teresa!

Zvyagintsev cunning. He is in no hurry. It does not squeeze anywhere. The viewer carelessly swallows a familiar bait, not noticing that he eats. The viewer does not see that our "mother-heroine" does not make a damn. Even to go to the store lazy - the courier delivers food from the supermarket. She has two joys in life: stare at Malakhov and get high in the “son” of the viper. At the expense of her husband, of course. But the hypnosis of the “tearful eyes” is so strong that the viewer, no matter what, obediently sympathizes with the monster, and not the husband - the only complex hero in this killer film. The husband is the same victim of hypnosis of the “tearful eyes”, like everyone else, but ... He has a daughter! Kate. Father with her daughter has a special connection. Bilateral. Therefore, he himself is a little Katya. This admixture forces him to feel the bark and burst. But it is not enough to see wolf fangs under a tearful mask.

Before moving to Katya, we’ll sew the last aspen stake of the elein boobs-we describe how the fish fish-and-zvyagins hooked the viewer who swallowed the bait.

Very simple! Only two viagra tablets. And the gopnik will go to the institute, not the army. And Katya will inherit the parasite from the dead donkey ears. And living decorations will move into a new spacious room to put it with products of life (in and without diapers). “You think, since you have money, you are some special,” Elena flashed with fangs, learning that she had earned a lifelong rent in two and a half years of shelling, and not what she was counting on. And the audience shared her pathos. At least partly. Well, yes, we did not know that Elena Viagra had in a holster! And when she shot, flour began. No, not the criminal. At the viewer. Because nothing, at least reminiscent of remorse, Elena attributed nothing, at least reminiscent of the remorse. All the same mask. All the same lies. And so that the life of the viewer does not really seem to the Rafinad, Elena put in the doctor’s place: “Is it possible to submissive.” This killer says if that ...

Now let's move on to a “special person”, for which Zvyagintsev is a low bow - to Katya. It is she, not Elena - the main character of the film. New hero ...

Zvyagintsev - the Prophet. Or some other word. What to call a person who, in the accidental pile of strokes and spots, is able to make out what others do not see? Zvyagintsev is the most. His Katya is a person who will declare himself in full growth in the tenth years of the XXI century. Or an embryo of such a person. One way or another, we all have to become a little Katya - “special”. Unless, of course, we do not want to remain parsley in Elena's booth.

The monster told the truth. But not about Katya, but to herself. Faced with a person who does not have tearful eyes on, Elena wrote off everything with money. It is not for nothing that she was in a conversation with her husband as a mantra was repeated by the same reproach: "And you give my daughter money." And again. And again. And the viewer obediently swallowed another Zvyagintsev bait - believed the monster and wrote down Katya in the Golden Youth. But the murdered was buried. Katya did not hit a finger on his finger to get her . Elena - grabbed someone else's with a dead grip. And the son, having found beer in a foreign refrigerator, calms her: "Katya will abandon her half of the apartment." He is sure of that. Still! Of course, it will refuse! Because it is disdained. But not only. The fact is that Katya is actually indifferent to money. This is not a bravado. She told her father the truth. She, in general, always tells the truth. When you have to say ...

The kingdom of Elena Beautiful is the kingdom of total lies. Lies and hypocrisy. Lies, of course, "in salvation." "Do you feel sorry for your father?" We translate from Elenin into Russian: "What are you, is it difficult to lift the eyebrows with a house and sniff your nose?" Because the “pity” of the cold -blooded killer is an imitation of pity. And Katya indicates the exact direction - at the bee in the ass. And the ass of the bee - what you need: Elena fit there and everyone who is bought on her cheap wiring. That is, in general, everything. Well, or almost everything. The same father sincerely reaches for his daughter. But how to live in the ice desert in which she put a deck chair? So he babbles childbearing banality and receives from his daughter in the brain ...

We do not see the real content of this scene, because we look at her with Elena's tearful eyes: we see a non -pound daughter and a wise caring father, who ... what a nonsense! The “wise” father has been living in hell in recent years. And he does not understand what kind of vitality flows from him through a hole. They will kill him tomorrow like a dog. His belongings will go to the creatures, which he is even disgusted to think about. Katya is the only person in the world who knows all this . And trying to share his knowledge. But it's scary! True, she is generally terrible. Therefore, an ordinary, dilapidated person always wrapps up with a bike blank “lies in salvation” and tries to “think about good”. Refuses an experienced nurse. He has such a caring wife. In addition, a doctor. But not a pharmacologist. Therefore, before killing, she climbs onto the book shelf behind the reference. So that for sure ...

Let us return to Katya (that is, to us, what we will have to become in the tenths, if we do not want Viagra). Each feature of its closest consideration turns out to be Christian (unless, of course, to consider Christianity what we know from the Gospel, and not from the “law of God” or Vsevolod Chaplin).

Judge for yourself. Christ forbade to make a lean suffering face. He ordered to give out her outerwear to someone who wants to sue a shirt. Take the same way to the neighbor and enemies. Do not value money and property. Do not bake about the coming day. Do not say high -pairing nobility and, in general, chat less. Do not strive to condemn and, in general, not to be particularly interested in other people and their actions, etc. Ultimately, all gospel teaching can be reduced to one fiery call - to improve through liberation from all forms of dependence. Katya does this exactly. She, of course, does not look at all at the “servant of God” in a handkerchief. But Elena is very similar to the "servant of God"! She even puts a candle in the film. For a similar resemblance ...

Cati’s features can already be discerned today in many of us. First of all, in those who are younger. I myself partly. Although it was not like that before. This is a sure sign of a generational change. A new human type arises. Zvyagintsev did not invent him - rather, he spied, felt, guessed. When new people will compose a critical mass, life will change. And then Elena in the handkerchiefs will not have to be sweet.