Review of the movie Yolki. Miracles do happen!
The territory of our homeland contains nine time zones, so you can celebrate the New Year in it nine times in a row! Cinema is as ordinary a miracle as these time zones, and the New Year has already arrived in cinema - with the release of Timur Bekmambetov's anthology and the company of other directors "Yolki". In this movie album of funny and romantic stories, many cities of a large country will unite their heroes to help a girl from an orphanage make her New Year's wish come true. People already have a certain amount of suspicion about Timur Bekmambetov's New Year projects - like a holiday movie, and they fear to find a Chinese counterfeit under a layer of foil and tinsel."Fir-Trees" looked especially suspicious before the start: after a rather dull "Moscow, I love you" and with the full lineup of all previous "holiday" movie projects (from "Patrols" to "Black Lightning") nothing good was expected from the movie. But there are, there are miracles in the world! And on New Year's Eve, they pour in as something especially thick, like the star rain of the Geminids. After the controversial "Irony of Fate: Sequel," the new New Year's vinaigrette "Yolki" was 100% successful - and promises to be the movie that most good people like to watch on the country's main holiday. A tiny drawback of "Elok" is that it is an almanac of stories, and not a whole work. Heroes appear on the screen and disappear from it like laughing people in a round dance around the Christmas tree in front of the gaze of a crazed foreigner. And although they are all bright and spontaneous, each with its own characteristics, texturedly embodied by the best USA actors (Garmash, Smolyaninov, Poroshina, Urgant, Vilkova), short screen time does not allow them to open up, and in the modest ninety minutes of the movie you cannot fall in love with them. However, the rest of "Fir-Trees" is a wonderful, funny and very touching New Year's comedy, close in spirit to the best examples of the genre - such as "Love in reality" or "Promising does not mean getting married." Almost all the stories in the almanac are very original, and the most predictable - with Vera Brezhneva - takes touching romance and magic. In some completely unplanned sense, "Fir-Trees" clearly demonstrate such almanacs as "Moscow, I love you" and other cinema declarations of love for cities, which distinguishes real cinema from lifeless art objects. Kind, lively and warm characters who love simply because - without carrying any "artistic load" pleasing to directors and script writers. Therefore, "Fir-Trees" appear not as another set of meaningless vignettes (which often happens with almanac movies), but as a joyful New Year's pate, densely stuffed with jokes, touching episodes, non-standard solutions and a determination not to deviate from their dreams inherent in absolutely all characters. It is this - and not handshakes, kinship, acquaintances and other conventional links of ties - that ultimately unites all these people. This is what ultimately turns out to be the main magic: not sugary-sugary and celluloid, but real, tangible and close, in which you believe. Because it is not the Shonn Penn with Hugh Grants who act in the "Christmas tree" stories - but like our common relatives and friends: somewhere unrestrained, imperfect, inventors, hooligans and liars - but with such big hearts, which are enough for nine time zones!And when wishes come true amid the chimes, cubes and Switzerland meet under the same Christmas tree, and Vera Brezhneva goes to your taxi, the hearts of the characters on the screen and the people in the audience alike freeze in anticipation of a miracle. It looks like a feeling of flight - the same unbelievability: like people don't have wings - but they soar, like you don't believe in Santa Claus for a long time - and gifts lie under the tree, like there are no miracles - but they suddenly pick up and carry away up! The Topic of Article: Review of the movie Yolki. Miracles do happen!. |
