That Sobchak is allowed, Dudu is not allowed*

How to live when the absurdity was elevated to the rank of the laws of being, to which all the population is dutifully

On holidays, a retreat from the canon occurred on the purely information channel of Solovyov. Here they showed the "City of Zero" Karen Shakhnazarov. I looked like for the first time. There is no absurd organic in the film, it is subject to forty -kin, but there is something no less important. The absurdity was elevated to the rank of the laws of being. Each resident of the city is doomed to humility to fate. There is no way out of this htony. You can be proud of the invented history of Zero, in the local history museum of which the Trojans with Attila is squeezed by Stalin and Kaganovich, you can dance rock and roll before our fools, you can hunt with denunciations, but there is still no way out.

The 1988 film was read as a prophecy about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Zero city, placed in today's context, looks almost like a chronicle of current events, and even strange repressions, coupled with nudity.

Especially spectacularly radical artistic gesture looks on the main patriotic channel of the country, flooded with the herald of the truth of the scale of Mardan or Karnaukhov. I don’t know how Shakhnazarov relates to his brainchild, but it seems that he provided the city with Zero for a long life. In our conditional museum of local lore, the characters appear from which the mind is numb.

For a week now, the people have been discussing a fresh exhibit, who lit up on the First Channel with the composition on the Move "Swim of the Qache". Vigilant citizens identified the anthem of the Maidan in the Ukrainian folk song. But everything worked out. Apachev, with his pre -repaired “swing”, turned out to be a great patriot. The 39-year-old native of Mariupol is the personality of the Renaissance: a journalist, military unit, organizer of the first military radio in Donetsk, the inventor of his own genre “Landsknecht Hip-Hop” (I have not been able to comprehend it yet), rapper, author of comics. The main hit is “summer and crossbow” with an intriguing chorus: “Summer and crossbows, Vagner will drive up right now.” The main creative method is bulging eyes, pressure, lion roar. The main conceptual composition is “we”, where Ivan Okhlobystin is called up for intimidation in black leather leather. He yells: "Goyda, brethren!" - And he explains the unreasonable: "Goyda is a Russian interjection, calling for immediate action." The shadow of the Sorokinsky "Oprichnik Day" is on the composition. People, horses, axes, shovels, brooms, sledgehammers were mixed into a heap: "Grits, broom, fly, geranium, take out an ax, an enemy’s ruby, and a fishe head over us." In the final, the tempting prospect of a bright future shone: "We will continue to act."

It was the last circumstance that expressed me for two and a half hours to spend in the company Apachev and Sobchak. And the point is not only that the stars of Z-cultures rarely dare to a big conversation. But the fact is that Apachev claims the role of the funeral of the previous world order, and this is already a serious application. Here we make a deep sigh and pay tribute to Ksenia Anatolyevna with her program “Caution, Sobchak!”. She learned to structure nonsense, packing it on the shelves.

Apachev winds a hare, falling into a servile ailment, then into a violent aggression. He wants to destroy the “culture”, but has no idea about it. Its main enemies are the “cocky movement”, but he calls only the harmless Kirkorov, Baskov, Lazarev.

He claims to be some higher secret knowledge about Prigozhin, which is seemed to be alive, but immediately comes back on any specific issue. When Ksenia Anatolyevna, making a meek face, asks: why is such a large patriot like you, the American distributor, Apachev’s internal hare freezes with fear. But not for long, because, follow your hand, its main mission is not to be afraid of yourself, but to manage the fear of others.

Fear management is one of the most spectacular types of management. Apachev wants to be formidable, and here at least the veins on the neck are swollen from anger, at least the creation of a register of artists who do not support their own. The new world order requires conceptual solutions, here they are, get acquainted.

In our Fatherland, it turns out, in addition to the fifth column, there is also the sixth. These are those according to Apachev, "who seems to be for us, but I do not believe them." And there is another seventh column. She is personified by Sobchak, under which A.A. It summarizes a powerful theoretical base: "Here you are like not for us, but in fact for us."

Ksenia Anatolyevna again makes a meek face. The encouraged Apachev rushes to jump: why what is allowed by Sobchak is not allowed Dudu*? Finally, I thought, Akim went on at least one important topic. Yes, this is not our hero to develop the thought. And the heroine is not such as to confess to the interlocutor who intends to demolish her along with the “culture”. But suddenly I realized that now for me this question has lost its pristine sharpness. The world, which was smashed, where white coats mixed with black leatherers, requires another optics. The monopoly on the truth is selected at the entrance to the new era.

For some, Sobchak is a Kremlin propagandist, for some-a liberal agent of influence.

For me, today's Ksenia Anatolyevna is the only full-fledged media (I already wrote about it once, I will repeat again) that is trying to recreate at least some picture of the world in the abyss on the edge. Look who came, she says, and we look, wiping eyes.

Who, besides her, can get such akim to the interlocutors - with such a set of ideas, aspirations, logic, and vocabulary? Nobody. They saw Apachev and became convinced: Z-culture in safe hands. I believe that the most fiery patriots will shudder from such reliability in the dim light of what is happening.

I would like to believe that this will pass in our city Zero. Everything in the world passes - even oblique rain and worms.

* Entered by the Russian authorities in the register of "foreign Agents".