Scene and cost

Under the Christmas tree lies a letter, moving the edges, such as a New Year's gift, but this is a rather ancient text, which we could read with certain variations at different times. "Dear ... I am with great respect ... I am deeply convinced ... I am not entitled to intervene ... I demand to cancel the display." This gift, under the Christmas tree either in the early spring, or under the rummage of the July rain from the same half -forced film, or sometimes many generations of Russian artists received autumn. You thought you were an artist, and you are in the service, if you please fulfill. Yes, and please, I apologize, remember that every step aside will be, I apologize, to be considered, I apologize, the escape.

The discussion of the letter also does not go beyond the usual schemes . An ordinary mixture of pathos indignation, sympathy, confusion, intra -paper showdowns, gloating, consecrated centuries. The true gut of Kapkova! .. recognized directors simply poison! .. The collective unconscious bureaucracy ... It is bad that they banned, but it is good that they allowed to breathe. And as you wanted: eat a fish and sit softly? Serebrennikov, why don't you leave the theater?! Bravo, Kapkov!

Relative novelty captivates the plot. Not a posthumous edition of the tortured Mandelstam is published with a wild preface by a smoke, and a film about girls who have just left the amnesty from the zone is announced in the Gogol Center. Although Chernyshevsky even sat in the Alekseevsky Ravelin, and his kind people printed his romance in “Contemporary”. Everything happened with us, miracles happened, but still infrequently. Not accustomed.

An important part of the discussion is devoted to taxes, and this is also a rather fresh topic. Whose, in the end, they are these budget revenues, to whom they belong and who has the right to dispose of them? With formidable kings and frostbitten communists, such issues did not arise.

In the era of Putin and Kapkov, the problem goes far beyond the scope of economic disputes. For if the theater Kirill Serebrennikov belongs to the people, then what does Putin and Kapkov have to do with it? And if most financial analysts are inclined to this, there is no people, but there is Superoligarch Putin and with him on the parcels of the caps, then they decide which films to show in the Gogol Center. Since we are talking about a state institution, such as an oil corporation or a meter television channel, and who pays, orders music and dances the girl. Or does not dance if the girl herself danced in the temple.

Finally, under the Christmas tree lies another letter, and this message, frankly, is unique. Here, no matter how much you strain your memory, you will not find historical analogues. This is the highest achievement of the Russian modernizing thought of the tenth years - the director’s text about censorship , and in his woeful words, generously scooped up from the treasury of his native language and the forbidden list of Roskomnadzor, and time breathes in full chest.

Time of network liberty. The time of boundless freedom within the boundaries of the microblog. The time when the artist, polemicizing with the authorities, is not constrained in expressive means, although the last word, of course, remains behind the bosses. The time when you can divert your soul so that the whole Russian -speaking world can hear and shudder, but at the same time submit to the order emanating from the circular letter, which, moving the edges, is lying under the Christmas tree. Blessed times!

Otherwise, everything is the same, within the framework of traditions. The authorities, as the national leader commanded, seeks to fuck society, and people defend themselves, swearing, as sometimes happens in life. The film about political stories is prohibited at the State Theater, and this means that they are still outlawed. As if there was no amnesty. And when Nadezhda Tolokonnikova asks the "guys" different questions , they do not need an answer to them, because the questions are purely rhetorical. There was no normal dialogue with this authority, obsessed with prohibitions. And if you want to shout before her, then put on Balaklava and go about the Virgin. Then you will be imprisoned, and they will be shot about the song that will be canceled - and this is the highest form of interaction between citizens with the authorities.

Such is the moral that can be withdrawn from this story, analyzing New Year's gifts under the Christmas tree and reading into the texts of sparkling letters. As for the documentary, “The Shiot History: Pussy Riot, then there are many sites free from Putin, Kapkov and heartbreaking discussions about budget money. So, in my opinion, it is necessary to do without all this.

The scandal is useful, even necessary for the development of civil society in the era of unheard of modernization of theatrical art, but it is not clear why the film cannot be shown in another room. Moreover, now, when all its creators, heroes and moderators are on the spot, the audience is in a good way intrigued and the record is ready for reproduction on the screen. Still, showing a film is generally much more important than demonstrating it precisely in the Gogol Center. Gogol will forgive.