Matilda in October

"Matilda" did not look and I will not, but I will say: the film took place. Although he, apparently, came out, little-hot, albeit spectacular. Due to the cardboardness of individual characters and some script hacks, as we are thrown here. But very timely. Like the novel "Mother", which Lenin praised for relevance, this movie managed, but with a useful reverse sign.

For the book that thundered at the beginning of the last century, which narrated about the birth of a proletarian hero, served the work of the revolution well. On the contrary, Matilda, released by the screens by the centenary of the most bloody of the Russian riots, helped to forget him a lot. The revolution drowned in melodramatic stories about how the last pre -Soviet king loved the ballerina, and so did not marry it. Few people remembered about 1917. Everyone discussed Kshesinskaya and Poklonskaya.

Could it be different - it is difficult to say. Perhaps it is hardly. The topic is not easy.

On the one hand, a centuries -old anniversary gave rise to a lot of unresolved issues, both internal political and foreign policy. About the relationship between the authorities and the people, for example, and here different stories came to mind. Starting with Khodynka and ending with democratic reforms at a relatively early stage in the construction of capitalism in one separate backward country. About the war as a means to distract society from seditious ideas - at first small and, according to the demonstration of the victorious, and there the world. In general, whether the authorities should, conflicting with society, to escalate patriotic psychosis in it - and how this turns into the king and his subjects, as well as for all of humanity.

The left and right populism still probably made sense to reflect. The blindness of hatred of the obsolete system and the merciless cruelty of those who intercepted power in Russia, taking advantage of the total brutality of those who returned from the front. In short, there was something to think about the descendants of the participants in the civil war. Only a hundred years have passed.

On the other hand, some unpleasant questions arose, agree. Filled by harmful allusions and uncontrolled subtext, as the censors put in Soviet times. Russophobic in form and content, invented by our overseas partners, if you use understandable modern designs.

It is another matter the personal life of the heir, long before Tsusima, the dispersal of the first Duma, the Stolypin reforms, the Brusilovsky breakthrough, Ilyich on the armored car. Has the king with a dancer or did not sleep? And if he slept, then why talk about it, recalling the sovereign-martyr, and if he did not sleep, then why slander? So, the experts invited by the blessed Crimean prosecutor, it seemed that Nikolai Alexandrovich could not twist the romance with this crooked Rat Matilda, while he had Alexandra Fedorovna, a Russian beauty of German origin? Or could you get married? Or couldn't it either?

All the questions are not idle, therefore they were so acutely interested in the audience in 2017, when the director, the teacher finally finished his blockbuster. True, as it turned out, all this was also explosive problems, which was found during the investigation in various loud affairs. When one of the sovereign fans loaded the canister with gasoline into the stolen truck, he hung up the entrance to the cinema and set fire to the car. When other indifferent citizens (it seems, still not wanted) betrayed the fire of cars whose owners were vicely parked near the office of the lawyer Dobrynin, who defended the teacher from the indicated prosecutor and exhausted in an unequal match with her. When the spectators who risked to go to the pre -premiere and premiere of Matilda, the fighters of the Russian Guard defended with the Avtozaks attached to them.

In general, what was happening resembled the times of the Socialist-Revolutionary Terror, in the struggle with which tsarism died, but still this allusion probably did not seem so terrible. Compared to the events of centuries -old, when during the world war the people threw off the king and did not want to stop at that. When the one without which Russia was not killed, they killed in the basement with his family, in order to declare the holy martyr and threaten the director to the director, who shot a very spectacular, but low -living film about him many decades.

But, I say, the cinema came out very timely, as the leader of the world proletariat expressed on a different reason. I am provoking, I am not afraid of this word, a public discussion, which rejects all difficult, but unnecessary issues, leaving only the most important ones, also not easy. About Matilda and her historically reliable, but offensive to the feelings of believers, a connection with a man. About feelings that are better not to hurt, otherwise they will put it, but the director, who joyfully welcomed the return of Crimea to his native harbor along with the royal palace and the prosecutor, is allowed in order to exclude. With a large accumulation of curious spectators and law enforcement officers and a small, but promising the presence of potential arsonists. This is also called democracy and pluralism of opinions, so behind the flames, if you wipe the glasses and squint, you can see the coming free Russia. You just need to squint very much and, wiping the glasses, do not break the glass.

And the revolution ... that the revolution. According to the latest research conducted under the leadership of the doctor of historical sciences Vladimir Medinsky, everyone was good in it, everyone was right, all our people. Everyone loved their homeland, that's what. Both the king and the Bolsheviks who killed him, both red, and white, and builders of the new world, and cursing their emigrants, and Dzerzhinsky with Denikin, and Stalin with Kolchak. Unless Matilda Kshesinskaya remains a historically ambiguous character: either the future of God's anointed was happy with her, or was not, or Russia was gone, or not disappeared, or still disappeared. In a hundred years, this will certainly open, and then we will not have unresolved problems at all.