"Term"

I foresee that the full -length Dokfilm “The term” mounted for almost an hour and a half will not like the majority of the heroes of the film, and those who remained behind the scenes. Perhaps he will surprise and leave in some perplexity not in particular our political life, and even more so its opposition part, the public of the Karlovar festival, where he will soon be shown. Most likely, the film will cause disputes among Russian spectators who can watch the tape on June 26 on the Internet.

In a strange way, tamped into the format, this dotted, fragmentary, almost twitt informal documentary project lost its own identity, originality and spontaneity at the level of almost amateur cinema, which turned out to be so attractive, at least for me. In total, 339 episodes, if we count together with the continuation of the project in the form of Lenta.doc, laid out on the network from May 2012 to March 2013. Spring, summer, winter and again the spring of "anxiety": protest and its leaders, and not only.

Interesting ideas and implementation of the Kostomarov team - Rastorguev - Pivovarov. What seemed ridiculous and funny, or, on the contrary, very nervous and tense, when you look at the episode behind the episode almost in real time, it looks completely different in the movie. Cinema is, as it were, the stage of growing up, it is already different. It’s like if the home shooting is how the girl or the boy reads poems (and now Vovochka will read the poem to us - everyone remembers in their childhood), standing in the chair, they suddenly decided to turn into a full serious movie. And on the big screen, this all ceased to seem sweet and sentimental: dad with his mother and guests and the poor fellow vovochka himself suddenly ceased to be homely direct, but transformed into stupid, in some places of tactless, places of unhappy, places of ridiculous characters.

The paradox is that the full -length "term" is not only a festival and promising "corrupt" on different television, but is not contraindicated in any of the federal channels in current Russia

The standardization of the project and the transformation of actually the Dokkino Dokino Doe, which can be shown at the festival or on TV, played a cruel joke with the characters selected for this final part of the project (Yashin, Sobchak, Vitorgan, Venediktov, Ponomarev, Navalny, Udaltsov and others). Protest leaders? The eccentrics who decided to play a protest, not a single little interesting reasoning, flat, played, fussy, parody (to a lesser extent this applies to Navalny). It does not cancel what is pretty, in some places touching, in some places pointless and childishly direct, normal people with their stories and experiences. But this is good in the genre of Home Video.

Of course, you can mount differently. Of course, the hard installation in this case turned out to be traumatic not only for the heroes, but, for my taste, for the project itself in the form in which he conceived and lived for almost a year. On the other hand, you can’t throw words from the song: everyone knew that they were being removed, everyone had the opportunity to take it into account. It was not for nothing that Pivovarov said that this was initially not a television story, but now it is turned into such. A documentary chronicle was conceived about "where we are led by those who are ready to go for their beliefs for a term." As a result, this ended with the film that the plague at both of your home, that Putin, living in the world invented by him, is not Putin - all are good. And even if another comes, the clicks will scream again "cheers" again, throw caps into the air and adore with a strangle. Nothing will change.

No one knew how this project would end? No, no one knew what this final film would be. At another time and in another country, I would say that well, the authors of the film did not invent this story of these people. What are, there are. Well, yes, such guys who are able to crawl under the bow of the cop with an iPhone and grind the tongue, not fully understanding why all this is and what to do with this protest and walking for you where to do people. And in general, it is very useful to look at yourself from the side, so let them look.

But this is not another time and not another country. In her prisons, people who went to Bolotnaya are sitting. Just people. Some of the serene, sometimes fooling about the leaders on the screen, is limited to the ability to work. Someone under house arrest. Maybe not everyone is ready to wind deadlines for their beliefs, but many are really paying for them. The film was not quite about it.

The paradox is that the full -length “period” is not only a festival and promising “corrupt” on different television, but is not contraindicated in any of the federal channels in present -day Russia, as Sergei Parkhomenko correctly noted. That season of “the anxiety of our”, which recorded the “term” project in its episodes, was more complicated than the film of the same name, more complicated than its leaders, more dramatic than the merry, although it is attractive by it, is not serene in terms of the consequences that the festival public is unlikely to know.

The "deadline" measured himself as much as he measured. And this is also an ambush, because the film, of course, should have the final, but the final does not have no: the confrontation between some of its heroes did not end with the camera off, it continues, sometimes not at all fun. It continued when the authors decided to stop the project, while they mounted a full -length version and even now, when they show it. This makes a movie easier, more primitive than it could be. You can’t make a big movie about people without the finale. You can not make such a movie about an incomplete story. The unfortunate woman, babbling words at the end, enthusiastic about the liberated and leaving the rally of Navalny, is a fake final, because Navalny is not a triumph now, but is sitting at home under arrest and against him at the speed of the pulse are sewn criminal cases. And "everything is going according to plan" performed by Kashin at the end - not the finale. Rather, a poetic excuse.

Natalia Gevorkyan - journalist

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