Grandmother's holiday

Bestseller Elizabeth Straut is a solar plexus of thirteen novels about the life of the Primorsky town of Crosby, Meng. The four-part Drama of HBO (available in the Amediatex online service-its cloudy extract, the concentration of all the most gloomy from the book: accidents, madness, catastrophes, dying, humiliation and partings. But vitality in television is even more-thanks to the rhythm, accents and actors.

Olivia Kitteridge is a strict teacher of mathematics, a woman unable to hide her disappointment in loved ones, not to mention strangers. Pharmacy Henry Kitteridge, on the contrary, is responsive and dreamy. Their 13-year-old son Christopher is the future neurasthenic who does not meet either the requirements of the mother or the temperament of her father. With all this, Kitteridzhi is the sun of his town, and dozens of heroes rotate around them. The plot covers a quarter of a century, and a lot happens in it: Olivia has an affair with a literature teacher, Henry has a strange affection for a young assistant, the Christopher has brides and family. The moon in this solar system of Kitteridge is death. In the state of Maine, the estate of Stephen King, she is everywhere: someone’s heart will stop, someone will shoot on the hunt, someone will drive drunk. This story even begins with the fact that the elderly Olivia goes to the picnic deep into the forest - without food, but with a couple of letters, a radio receiver and a charged revolver.

It is pleasant to allow the simple thought that similar people live in the state of Men and Siberia.

The universal prose of the storm is a smooth lake, at the bottom of which you can endlessly dive behind the turned stones. On each of them are familiar surnames. The great North American understanding of depression, as in the story "Shelter" Wells Tower, is rubbed at this day about Dickens "Big Hopes". Magnetism of death from the "Cemetery of Pets" King lies next to Viktor Astafyev's crippled vitality of the "grandmother's holiday". The last kinship is somehow warmed by especially: it is pleasant to allow the simple thought that similar people live in the state of Men and Siberia. Without a genetic examination, it is clear: there is no difference between the quietly buried uncle Mitrius and the gloomy guy Kevin Kolson, who has been looking for eternal peace from his youth. The heroes of Starut tightly grew to the ground. The heroes perceive the departure of his son to California as an abduction of an apple from a paradise garden with the whole tree. Olivia fiercely and barren bothers with flowers-with its autumn hands. Thinking about suicide, one of the heroines dreams: "I will float with the flow in my boat, and the cod is pushing my ears." Rasputin do they have, or something, editor? And, of course, along with the Canadian “shelter”, these stories greatly resemble “gooseberries”. But to compare the Straut with Chekhov has long been a common place. And I want without common places.

Olivia Kitteridge observations would have been enough for a long television season and a full meter, but such timing would lead to a disaster. The film would be another “Miss Daisy driver” - a picture of wide strokes and thick colors. Francis McDormand would have destroyed a great season: after spending so much time with her heroine, we would not notice how she grows and sprouts. Four episodes for an hour each, shot by the master of family dramas Lisa Kholodenko, turned out to be the best solution.

The Fargo climate brings to the book image of Olivia McDormand. In the first series, her heroine is a woman with hard, but voting principles, a well -fed spider around which too many helpless and buzzing flies have accumulated. Her ability to shake people-sitting (what is already lying) on ​​the antidepressants of a single mother, bad students, her own husband (the best student)-leaves bruises as a touch on the old people in the continuation of the “radiance” of King. Her honesty and desperate irony disarm the already inferior. And her contemplation and unwillingness to follow the Great Code of the American Smile, everyone around takes on rudeness and hostility.

The elderly Olivia goes to the picnic deep into the forest - without food, but with a couple of letters, a radio receiver and a charged revolver.

Having created an image in the first series, which cannot be sympathized with, and how to soak in it in the second episode, in the third part McDormand suddenly begins to destroy it from the inside. The impeccable Olivia suddenly realizes its mistakes. Having seated the audience at one desk with his negligent students, the mentor begins to doubt her own lessons. In the book, everything ends with volunteering. There are no these chapters in the series (it was not shot for Oscar, but enough for Emmy), but the humanistic mission of the heroine is voiced clearly and loudly. Olivia, the old school of feelings, leads a single crusade against the habit of society to simplify life, give all the most important in it to outsource the void. She instructs her son to talk with a heart attack, and he clicks in front of the old man's nose with his fingers. She demands that the nurses in the hospice are holding the phone by Henry's ear, and they simply put it on the pillow. She asks to water flowers every day - but the emitting endless sympathy of the nurse forgets about it at the same second. For Olivia, this is something like a Cold War, and in the war it does not do without excesses. In the most piercing episode, the heroine is taken to save the young talented schizophrenic and, in general, does not try to hide the insult that her own son grew a dummy. The husband for her is often a bargaining coin, lying in a wallet. But even in such characters, Straut, Kholodenko and McDormand find holiness.

The heroes of McDormand and Richard Jenkins, two old turtles, move from the climax to the climax very slowly, allowing the audience to see the whole complexity of their motives. Together with characters, genres change. In places Olivia Kitteridge - a fairy tale about how two wise old men secretly arrange other people's lives. In places - a thriller that love is an non -renewable and very rare energy resource. Nevertheless, he is enough for the heroes to live with the viewer for twenty -five years, running, like in Interstellar, in four hours. I must say, quite happy.

And, it seems, in vain, a mathematics teacher doubts her lessons. The Odissey series begins with her comic advice from a flabby neighbor: “Scroll through the table bulbs in your apartment, and the depression will pass.” And ends with the short appearance of Bill Murray, who, with his radiance, really accelerates any clouds.