Executioners and Divchina

" - Where do you work? - I sit in prison in Russia. - The place of residence? - in a cage. - A state of health? - Do not remember." And now about the stuffed circus , as Nadezhda Savchenko designated the court hearings in her case - this also sounded very funny.

The history of the prisoner pilot, in fact, in the courtroom, suddenly loses its genre monotony, flashing with new colors. This sometimes happens when a living person bursts into the room where the dull fighter car works. Furious, indignant, perplexed. Fearless. So the tragedy turns into its opposite, the actors change roles, and we observe the comedy of the court .

Although the executioner is rarely ridiculous, it is usually a rather serious, frightened and terrible uncle in a red shirt with rolled sleeves. Of the former murderers, if the murderers are former. But here is a completely different case, right? That is, Arthur Karpov is a well -deserved judge, but what kind of murderer he is? This figure is rather comic, especially at the moment when it goes to confer with himself about self -insurance, and must be looking in the mirror for an hour, trying to understand whether he is trembling or the right to judge the hostage, and ultimately makes an acquittal. And then, of course, satisfies the petition of the prosecutor.

The prosecutors and the prosecutors are funny in their own way, claiming that in Savchenko, even under house arrest, he would put pressure on witnesses. Which, they say, are collected by investigators and everyone has irresistible evidence. The service press is also on top: long before the decision of the Basmanny Court, the main edition of Aram Ashotych informs the audience that the hostage remains in custody. The audience is exhausted by laughter. And somewhere there, in the background, invisible, like Stalin behind the scenes of demonstration processes, the main customer of this spectacle, a great strategist and geopolitics. Funny to horror.

And the victim is not only fearless, but somehow desperately fearless, which allows us to talk about the lawsuit , but also with the opposite sign. This is most like a Soviet film about fascists and a brave Divchin, which throws them in the face of dying offensive words. Like everyone you will not shoot, and besides, you are the hell. Actually, Nadezhda Savchenko pronounces these words, addressing the workers of the convoy, who lead her mother out of the hall, and if in Soviet cinema such expressions are still unthinkable, then in the stuffed Russian circus are quite appropriate.

In essence, the vast majority of political processes are going on with us. With prosecutors who are trying to prove that the defendant stole all the oil, and with lawyers who bring the “well liquid” to the hall and ask for a frightened high court to explain how to steal it all. With the victims, who have a chipping tooth enamel, but they have already received a Moscow apartment and ask the defendant to let go, because they see him for the first time in their life. With the Trull Cathedral, whose decisions retain their sacredness for many centuries later, and again with the victim, who, after demonic dances in the church, has forgotten how to give back the change to customers. Although Christ drove such people from the temple along with money and goods.

These are all infinitely amusing courts, as funny troops are. Only this time, the process is accompanied not by the plunder of one individual richest company. Not showdowns about contemporary art and not even condemnation of the first disagreements that fell out after a police provocation on Bolotnaya. The trial of Nadezhda Savchenko takes place against the backdrop of a war, which is still local, but can be crowned with the fire of the third world and radioactive ash, which the popular Russian TV presenter has already informed humanity. This is all not very funny, and from frequent repetition this Hochma turns into a completely bad joke.

That is why the scene in the Basmanny court, in addition to unexpected, almost tactless fun, cause other healing feelings in the viewer. Pride of a person, for example, capable of with a stupid fighter car with all its judges, prosecutors, convoy troops and nuclear missiles. For this young woman who challenges the abyss of humiliation. And this lesson is so clear that one short video can be judged not only in the courtroom, but throughout the country and far beyond its borders, where the crazy occupation war continues. In these scenes, Nadezhda Savchenko appears as a symbol of resistance to pitch evil, which only seems invincible. But the mosquito is dispelled, barely a living desperate word sounds in the musty room.

Of course, this is a tragedy, and laughter stucks in the throat, as you think about the fate of Savchenko and about the thousands of the dead, and that the slaughter is not visible, and about him, the great strategist and geopolitics, which is not enough, no matter how much, nor plant, nor hindize. But this is an optimistic tragedy , there was such a play and such a genre in Soviet times, now reviving in the post -Soviet space. In the small space of the courtroom, where a simple answer should not be rain to a simple question, and it would be necessary to hear it to the one to whom it is addressed before it is too late. Until the tragedy has lost optimism. While people in the large space of the globe are still trying to agree with the criminals and hesitate to bear the verdict, the final and not subject to appeal.