Breathe. Do not breathe

The seventh festival of the series "Pilot" ended. We figure out what trends he discovered

What are the authors and producers of the series do today, in addition to attracting the viewer? Search for safe shelters. On this front, there is also a kind of shelling: censorship, Rospotrebnadzornaya, and the viewer - who has increased, as in the good old times, vigilance, will be in the root: either the vicious connection between the same -sex will find, then violence, “use”, then abuse.

Where to go to the poor author?

The first saving shelter is a comedy.

Of the 17 competitive projects 7 comedies.

But here, too, waving a white hand over the wire, you can stumble. There are, so to speak, sacred and sacred topics and professions, it was no coincidence that such series as “Monastery” or “Comrade Chief” turned out to be on the “Shelf”.

What are we joking about? About betrayal, about school, about the greed of bureaucrats. But carefully, according to the tangent, as in the matinee “mayor from the Youth Theater”-variations on him “prince and beggar”, however, “prince”-drinking Hapuga-mayor-just in case they are thrown into a car accident at the very beginning. So the “front face” will be to act further for the benefit of society. That is, the lyceum, waiting for their role.

“Some people love more cold,” stories in the spirit of “Lyubov-Morkovi” are still relevant for them. The office misunderstanding of Zhek (Zheka Russell), will not blow out the love recognition of the office Princess Alice. So far, the highest unshakable force - of course, this is a seductive bosses in the image of the witch Ekaterina Klimova - will not turn the Miner Miner ... into a terrier. Now this “dear friend” may not part with her beloved, look her eyes, be on her leash. Even sitting on the knees.

But the most popular topic is aliens. They flew into serial cinema last year. In the current competitive series "Planets", two representatives of extraterrestrial civilization instill the bodies of the married couple of Marina and Anton, trying to mimic under people, that is, "to be like everyone else." As a matter of fact, this is the main idea of ​​the era, for this, aliens are not necessary.

And in the section "The most anticipated series" - projects for tomorrow resembled "Projects for yesterday." In one of them, the aliens moved to the village, mixed with the locals, and they would finally put a dilapers of the collective farm legacy (“not at ease”, STS). And who else?

The second shelter is a teenage theme. Four competitive projects: “Oldsk”, “Plados”, “Poker”, “16 years and 9 months” - in all colors talk about the difficulties of growth, relationships with the outdated generation, about adolescence and the criminal “swamp”, which is attractive for a frenzied young soul.

There are also mines: it’s quite difficult to talk about teenagers outside the risk zone, in which abuse, dependence, violence.

Of the best projects - Sitkom "Oldskul" (directors Alexander Zhigalkin and Evgeny Shelyakin). Funny about serious. As the “last teacher of the USSR” with the generation of Alpha is trying to find a common language, to write a formula for happiness with a chalk on an electronic board. But unlike the Shestopal genes from “Living until Monday”, students from the super school are not too eager to understand.

In the project “16 years and 9 months” (TV-3), the authors reflect on teenage pregnancy. It is curious that the mother of a girl-a psychologist who has appeared in an interesting position, works at the center of assistance to single mothers ... During the show, I recalled the proposals of deputies to pay benefits to pregnant schoolgirls. So the authors looked into the water.

Among many stories about adolescents shown in the Ivanovo Popados are the most curious and alive. About the age of the anarchy, about three young boobs running along the thin border of the forbidden, or rather, running away from adults mired in crime and lies.

Here the second “parental” plan was written out by Ilya Shoshin by the residual principle. What is the security guard of the school Timofei Tribuntsev, the father of the head of the company Oboltus (Makar Khlebnikov). A mix of judicial drama and criminal seemed artificial to many. And I liked the fact that the adventure flashback (as everything was actually) sets out the history of proceedings in court (as in the classical criminal drama “Grachi”), because monitoring the living cycle of life is more interesting. And this stream carries heroes, tossing on dangerous rapids. The director is Alexander Sobyk.

Be easier, Lenya!

The screen revealed the trends discussed on the business platform.

1. Reducing projects that television channels buy from platforms.

2. Therefore, a noticeable decrease in Original volume, the own production of platforms is reduced. Firstly, expensive, and secondly, little in demand. First of all, this applies to the blossoming genre "Drama". This is followed by a reduction in the number of projects created for platforms in independent studios. These are big risks for producers.

3. Content is primitivized: the viewer chooses simple non -thorough entertaining stories. They rule the ball: comedies, fantasy, melodramas, swollen sitcoms.

4. The union of platforms and TV (it is easier to collect the budget with it). And the TV dictates what and how to shoot. We have its own “profile”. The presentation of the fifth channel was significant, the audience of which in recent years has grown by 300 percent.

When I turn on the fifth channel, there is always a “trace” there. He was born in 2007, now in the prime of the 18th season. The channel producer said: it seems to some viewers that their remote control has broken - the telly hung. This is not a telly hung. This is worse, we hovered. The “trace” is a time machine that has stalled, and we pretend that we are going.

Long series is a space for an alternative life. There are all your own, you are at ease. You were tamed and accustomed.

You prepare lunch, drink tea (we were told that the fifth channel ranks first in the women's audience), and the employees of the fictional service are looking for fictional criminals. And everyone is good.

Gradually, the TV and at the festival displaces the serial cinema of the streaming.

The pilot program captured all these trends in paints. At the same time, I believe that the debut of the new program director of Masha Tokmasheva took place: the program recorded the change in the industry ... not for the better.

Breathe. Do not breathe

That is why it is especially valuable to the decision of the purely male directorial jury of the festival to give the main prize of the powerful female drama “Breathe” Ani Kuznetsova.

Here it is worth saying separately about the OKKO platform. Paying tribute to the mass culture and pleasing to the viewer, they publish such complex multi -row dramas as “highway”, “outsors”, “dashing”, “survivors”. They show Alex Garland "under fire". Call the audience for the discussion.

Gabriel Gordeev before showing the best on the “pilot” of the project Ani Kuznetsova said that such a difficult topic rises for the first time.

Breathe! Breathe! Complex birth. Long night. The child is suffocating. But the experimental hands of the midwife of Lera, an understanding of the physiology of the female body. And the child is saved. She has a whole philosophy of natural birth. She is the best specialist in "Natural". And not too happy, thumping lonely mother of three children. An interesting dialogue between Leroy and a new acquaintance from Tinder, resoner and idle talk, about the difference between a man (for him 42-the beginning of life) and a peer who is in the search (she is aging! Plus children ...). For him, such a meeting is an adventure, for her, as it seems to him, an attempt to jump into the last car.

The new patient Masha (Daria Vereshchagin) - the young mistress of the influential businessman Shakhova (Peter Buslov) - wants to give birth without Caesarean, despite the improper presentation of the fetus. Lera honestly warns her about possible problems. And it is already clear who will be accused of all mortal sins.

The drama touches the most delicate, complex problems. About the choice of a woman on whom the life of her and the child depends. About the behavior of men (“back so that I will come with my son or to tear your legs out!” - the bossy dad jokes sadly by admonition of the head physician). About the intimate connection of the midwife and woman in labor. About "natural" birth at all costs. About stimulation, danger and nightmare, into which the "most important day" can turn into. A pleximal of ethical, psychological and social conflicts.

Marina Alexandrova waited for a large serious dramatic role.

“Breathe” is a psychodrama about life and death, which does not have so many chances for a wide success with a viewer who loves today easier, more amusing. But how important it is to shoot such a serious multi -part cinema about how to remain a person in the most tragic turning points of life, to breathe when there is almost no air.

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