Elena Fanailova: A young villain

About the Vatican of the NVO era

The American premiere of "Young Dad" is scheduled for January 15, Europe has already received a series thanks to six national premieres of HBO and Canal+ . It is necessary to mention independent commercial manufacturers in order to understand what the scenes of erotica and violence that are inconceivable for Catholic cinema are associated with Catholic cinema. There are plenty of reasons for insulted feelings. The young dad smokes in the walls of the Vatican (which only the lazy reviewer did not mention). His closest friend Cardinal Duusolier participates in the group orgy and other dubious entertainments no less spectacular than any character of the “Game of Thrones” (of course, this is not Borgia's antics, but quite expected by the public after the Alexander’s dad, the level of contention among Catholic hierarchs). In addition, the young dad Hamit is literally to everyone who comes across in his way, and the Lord is no exception.

Who does he remind? If we turn to the cinematic iconography associated with the young years of John Pavel the Second , it will seem that the hidden name of the series is “Young Voitla”. Jude Lowe is an advanced glossy copy of all the actors who depicted Karol Voitla in his youth, and within the framework of the series it is quite possible to imagine that the incarnation of Pope John Paul II rises to the holy throne, not at 46. The young dad is a “man from a foreign country”, as John Paul II said about himself in the first Vatican speech; He has a mentor and patron, theologian Spencer (see the role of Cardinal Sapieha in the biography of the young Voitla); He lost his parents early; He arranges a rocking chair in the Vatican (see ski sport in the life of John Paul II). The publication of love letters from some dads does not cause a scandal, but an attack of gratitude to the flock. The conservatism of Pope John Paul II in the field of demands for the private life of good Catholics did not exclude his liberal political and social views.

The similarity between the real and invented pontiffs looks like a grandiose cultural parody, to which director Paolo Sorrentino Master. But on this it is perhaps ending. The struggle against the hazing of colleagues and subordinates, with which the young dad is busy with half a serial (despite the fact that he himself looks and behaves more like a gay icon), in the real RCC is already under Benedict XVI . Lenny Bellardo is too eccentric, self -centered, torn off from reality, animals prefers to people, clearly abuses visits to a cosmetologist and personal power. All this allows Russian viewers to compare him with Putin (Jud Law literally repeats the well-known photo of the wining Russian president on the folding room), and the American-with Trump: we are talking about a new type of personnel, replacing a social charisma with elements of anti- or ethical madness (it is good that the Vatican does not have winged missiles).

It would be interesting to find out what Papa Francis really thought after meeting with Patriarch Kirill

It can be assumed that such a few sectarian dad-vulture of the future is designed by its creators because the current Pope Francis comes from Catholic liberals; But mainly because the old world crackles at all seams, and it is not saved by the previously known order. The eternal problems of the Church have passed into the modern era, this statement is true for the beginning of the 21st century. The young dad is a fanatic of faith (although he often claims the opposite), dreaming of turning the whole flock into the same fanatics. He is inclined to ecstatic attacks of God -state, visions and other direct breakthroughs of the unconscious (see his personal cult of the blessed Juana, probably the collective image of the young saint).

In the series, there are practically no pop models such as "Da Vinci Code", but there are several symbolic moments, one of which is associated with the name of the young dad. The name Pius in the Catholic world has become almost a household name for determining the contradictory reformer, conservative and revolutionary at the same time, as a result of not quite effective. Pius IX in the RIPZHEMENTO era wanted to update faith and increase statehood; Speaking briefly, it came out with big losses for the Vatican. Pius X became famous as the chief counter -modernist of Catholicism. Pius XII rules during the Second World War and, according to various sources, maneuvered for a long time between the Mussolini regime and its opponents, hiddenly participating in the salvation of Jews in the Holocaust. Finally, Pius XIII : this is the so-called Antipap , a American-American sectar from an ultra-conservative environment named Lucian Pulvermakher, who died in 2009. He believed, among other oppositionists, that the decisions of the second Vatican Cathedral (1962–1965) are anti -icatolic, and all the pope chosen after him, including John Pavel II, are illegal. And now, suppose, his spiritual student in the Vatican, the new Pius of the XIII, aka Cardinal Bellardo, the former archbishop of New York .

About the mistakes of the series - see here.

The fact of what the picture is considered in the Vatican Museum a boy-excursant and a young dad in the last series of the first season-see here . In fact, the picture is located in one of the museums of Toledo, not in the Vatican.

Finally, in this society, Catholic freaks and European eccentrics have no place for any "Russian world", unlike, for example, from the world of Latin American and African. The only episode of the meeting of the young dad and the Moscow Patriarch is accompanied by the first remark: "The Patriarch is unbearably bored." Still, for too long I did not want to talk; Maybe just weaned. It would be interesting to find out what Pope Francis really thought after meeting with Patriarch Kirill.

Elena Fanailova - journalist, host of the Freedom in Clubs program

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