We have arrived. Review of the film ”Tanks” by Kim Druzhinin
In the States, young talented directors, whose films made from the heart thunder at Sundance and at the box office, are very quickly welcomed by Hollywood. In exchange for fame, honor and tight bundles of dollars, the Star Factory "forces" them to shoot blockbusters, which for some reason turn out much better than those who are familiar with this genre. In our country, apparently, everything works somehow differently: the young talented Kim Druzhinin, after his people who praised the real feat of “Panfilov's 28” from the heart, fell right under the wing of the notorious Minister of Culture of the USA Federation Vladimir Medinsky. As written in press releases, the minister "took an active part" in the filming of his new film "Tanks" (and even recorded himself in the credits). What is hidden behind this phrase, everyone roughly guesses. As a result, we, of course, received the declared adventure blockbuster, but for what they did exactly that to us, the gullible,
The plot is based on a real story about how, in 1940, two prototypes of T-34 went from Kharkov to Moscow to test their power and show off in front of Comrade Stalin at a review. There was no special action on that trip: we had a fight a couple of times, we refueled a couple of times, well, maybe the bear was also awakened in the forest - the race took place in early spring. But since Medinsky saw in his dreams the notorious blockbuster adventure, the scriptwriter had to add the following to the plot: a forest gang of partisan thugs, a fingerless saboteur-saboteur, and a gang of insidious fascists driving around on black motorcycles with sidecars. The highlight of the program was the main villain - a bald, sullen, looking like old tired Kashchei subject with a German surname, who was brought into the game by the command “Activate Schultz!”.  There are some films in which everything is so bad that it's even good. So, "Tanks" do not belong to them. The fact that this is not quite a patriotic hit, but, probably, some mistake in the description or an oversight of advertisers, you begin to guess long before the T-34 leaves the factory gates. Acquaintance with the main characters is so awkward and crumpled, as if distant relatives had arrived. You know what will begin now, but you don't want to participate at all. Here is the brave and most worthy in all senses hero Koshkin (Andrey Merzlikin), here is the fierce and suspicious NKVD officer Mizulin (Anton Filipenko), here is the annoying and ardent Kataeva (Aglaya Tarasova), who will certainly get involved with men in their male mission and at first will interfere with everyone , then someone will fall in love with himself, and at the end it is imperative that a kiss and a foot like this.  And the further, the clearer the thought pops up in my head:"Seems to me, gentlemen, it was a comedy". The first action game with fights and shootings is a swanky jumble of bullets whistling, out of place shouts, awkwardly restless actors and tortured exclamations like "You're lying, you won't leave!" and "Yours took!" Separately, it is worth noting the dashing races across the fields (spikelets are attached in close-up): despite the fact that fascist bikers rush after tanks to music patriotically inspired by "The Elusive Avengers", this whole action looks like "Mad Max" in the retelling of a drunken neighbor who looked at the screen .Poor Schultz adds special charm to all this buffoonery. Apparently, simply not imagining how to defeat such an invincible team, and even in such impenetrable tanks, he is for the most part meaningfully silent. At the same time, he performs each of his villainous actions with such a fierce air that the canonical "Russisches Schwein!" Is asked in his mouth. It would seem that it was impossible to portray this template from templates even more comically, but no. Madness reaches its climax in the scene with the tragic death of Schultz. She is not only the funniest in all this patriotic hit, but also hints to us that Medinsky is well acquainted with the work of Charlie Chaplin and dearly loves his early films, those with falls and cuffs.  The actors, of course, did their best. Andrei Merzlikin regularly threw pathos at Koshkin, like a skilled stove-maker in a bathhouse, Anton Filipenko and Aglaya Tarasova tried their best to smack at least some spark, but if you put even the most beautiful saddle on a known dead horse and put sugar in its teeth, “ and hoo ”she will not say. Therefore, the final dialogue between Koshkin and the traitor to the Motherland, when the brave designer emotionally gives out some kind of patriotic attempts, becomes for the audience only a reminder that the end of the film is near, bear with it.  A picture from a comic book was circulating on the Internet at one time, it depicts a green gallbladder with a sad face, brown stones in his hands and the caption: "I was sharing." Vladimir Medinsky must be incredibly proud of what he was doing, but for Kim Druzhinin, this project was not even a step back, but a step into the abyss. It is sad that the real Mikhail Koshkin did not live to see his triumph, when his T-34s were crushed by the Germans on the fields of World War II, but all the people who respect him can sleep well: the misunderstanding film "Tanks", these vague adventures of tankers in the Union, he does not will see. The Topic of Article: We have arrived. Review of the film ”Tanks” by Kim Druzhinin. |
