The use of the camera and set pieces in this film is on another level. Visceral, satirical, poetic, there's so much in this film and it's gone virtually unnoticed. So glad I watched it.
I've seen thousands of films but after this incredible experience I said "Hey, this is really different!" It's definitely hard to watch for all the atrocities going on, but the film grammar Mr. German invented is simply stunning. He made film history but noone seems to care. Best movie ever.
Loved it. Took two watches to gather all that was going on since I don't understand Ruski. Sort of like being the only audience member watching a play while walking through the cast.
It's almost a case where I feel like reading the book is necessary, but the book has a very different tone, or at least plays a trick with this dirty reality of the world.
Spectacular, feeling I had days after watching this, never did I had before.. except in dreams. If you read the book first you will grasp the story much better.
Easily the most inventive and unique use of cinematography this century. Not the best FILM, as such, but the way it effectively breaks every rule you're taught regarding cinematography makes it completely unique.
Everything about this film besides the obvious "uhh the Greys are keeping everything grey woah metaphors" would be made better with colour. B&W actually makes the plot a bit more difficult to follow, I think. Imagine if you had a detail like Don Rumata's red hair or the cover of a book or the flash of some weird otherworldly steel leap out at you in the sea of browns and greys.
Why would you have color in a world devoid of hope? Also, all film is metaphor, and it’s pretentious to think otherwise. It’s not pretentious to see the metaphors.
@@sheissaaaaa But in the story (both the original novel and this screenplay), the colour of certain things, like those I mentioned, is key to the story. I can't think of a good reason not to show that colour other than your camera was broken or you got caught up in your own seriousness or something. A story with zero hope whatsoever is also not an interesting one - but there clearly is hope in this story, it's just not shown very well.
@@AgentAlfie I find it realistic in the since that it take place in another world absent of the thought or Idea an omnipotent God. I was at first intrigued by the idea as being sort of a precursor commie version of an alternate Warhammer 40K universe primarily the planet Macragge cept not as clean.
You have to give a film like this a bit of concentration. I do like the attention to detail and the b/w but it's only the first 10 minutes of what could be a subtle comment on life as we don't see it. Give it a chance, we haven't seen a new Russian film for ages
Neither Corona nor the Back Death kill everyone infected. In unprepared societies they only kill important parts of population and slow down the intellectual progress.
For all intense and purposes, the lead character is a god among his people, they are essentially animals running on primal urges alone, they look to him as a god, they expect him to care for them, and yet will also stab him in the back for having what they want.
We are experiencing something similar happening in the US. The denial of science, the villianization of the "academic elites", the rise of the anti-intellectual politics, the election of buffoons like Trump, the rise of religious fundamentalism, the reign of the idiots. I hope we can turn this around before it's too late.
What a reactionary thought.... as if history hasn’t been repeating itself always, and as if a president of four years is going to send us into the dark ages.. come on man don’t fear monger
I read the book once. Incredible story, indeed. It was also incredible they let them publish it in USSR. This is clearly the Soviet Union, now Russia. The country where no renaissance came. Where the smart people were killed just because they were smart. And so all the other remained primitive and poor. This is also why Putin is so easily understood by the Russians. He is just doing the same thing they know since the Mongolian times. Or even since the old Kyevian days, where the Vikings stole everything and became the ruling class. Married women by raping them in front of their parents, introduced "Christianity" by killing everyone who dared to resist. The same cultural patterns last to these days. There is no moral wrong to steal and rape in Russia if you are strong enough to do it. By not doing it you show your weakness.
@@КаринаБ-б3к Russia is a degenerate country. Top rates for alcoholism, abortion, drugs, islamization rivaling Sweden, 3rd world shit hole everywhere but Moscow and St. Peterspurg, the list goes on. No phobia here, just the cold facts.
Three hours long soft-core coprophiliac pornography featuring a good book, a brilliant actor, dozens of extras (half of them -- children), who look and act like schizophrenics. Zero plot, a lot of whining and whaling, tons of crap, mud and urine. It's extremely boring and disguising.
A perfect depiction of our medieval forefathers. I loved it because that, all the sewage littering the streets, total lack of the basics hygienic norms and human rights and decency. Just like the good old times.
@nick Funny, I saw the animme Gate and alwayss tought that it was too unrealistic, this movie is how I imagined how would look for us a Medieval society if we were to find one.
I found the film interesting at first but it's just way too long and disgusting to watch. The moral of the story, if there indeed is one, is simplistic and obvious (it's basically Idiocracy in the middle ages). Most of the dialogue seems completely random. The sci-fi elements are very poorly elaborated. I found it impossible to sympathize with the protagonist, he's almost as horrible of a person as the other people in the film. The majority of the screen time is just disgusting stuff happening unrelated to the story. The protagonist somehow is able to murder dozens of heavily armed soldiers without even being touched by them once, which is one of the many things that's not explained. These are just a few problems I had watching this film.
All of these things are very well explained in the book. In fact, part of it is already in the title. He is the "god" for this society, he has some "superpowers" thanks to the fact of being sent here from the more developed Earth civilization. Like more developed combat skills. He is not supposed to interfere with the things, just to survive, observe and give reports. But it is all too "hard" in some moments, especially when he falls in love and loses the rational distance. In the book he does not kill, for which locals find him weird. But they still admire and accept him because of his recognizable skills. Maybe the director concentrated so much on the visual part that he forgot to make sure these fundamental rules of the genre are clearly explained to everyone. Sometimes it is the way non-american, non-marvel movies are shot.
@@Meurth I agree, this part of authors licence seemed a bit too much for me also in the book. I am not sure if in the book he was not equipped with some kind of dress giving him the superpower and impermeability to the local weapons. It has been some years since I have read it.
The use of the camera and set pieces in this film is on another level. Visceral, satirical, poetic, there's so much in this film and it's gone virtually unnoticed. So glad I watched it.
I've seen thousands of films but after this incredible experience I said "Hey, this is really different!" It's definitely hard to watch for all the atrocities going on, but the film grammar Mr. German invented is simply stunning. He made film history but noone seems to care. Best movie ever.
C Ale, to me, it's the most important film in cinematic history.
@giacomo cornacchia intended so succesful
B Est consumed with 2 bottle of vodka. This film is a masterpiece
Loved it. Took two watches to gather all that was going on since I don't understand Ruski. Sort of like being the only audience member watching a play while walking through the cast.
It's almost a case where I feel like reading the book is necessary, but the book has a very different tone, or at least plays a trick with this dirty reality of the world.
Spectacular, feeling I had days after watching this, never did I had before.. except in dreams. If you read the book first you will grasp the story much better.
Easily the most inventive and unique use of cinematography this century. Not the best FILM, as such, but the way it effectively breaks every rule you're taught regarding cinematography makes it completely unique.
The comments are so creepily in line with the picture of dumbed humanity in the film.
Yeah, you're right. You should be in this film.
What do you mean by this? I’m genuinely curious because I might agree, but I also might think it’s genius, I’m legit unsure.
Not sure if I love or hate this film, mix of both. But I’m not going to forget it any time soon
Everything about this film besides the obvious "uhh the Greys are keeping everything grey woah metaphors" would be made better with colour. B&W actually makes the plot a bit more difficult to follow, I think. Imagine if you had a detail like Don Rumata's red hair or the cover of a book or the flash of some weird otherworldly steel leap out at you in the sea of browns and greys.
It's just a pretentious Idiocracy.
Why would you have color in a world devoid of hope?
Also, all film is metaphor, and it’s pretentious to think otherwise. It’s not pretentious to see the metaphors.
@@sheissaaaaa But in the story (both the original novel and this screenplay), the colour of certain things, like those I mentioned, is key to the story. I can't think of a good reason not to show that colour other than your camera was broken or you got caught up in your own seriousness or something. A story with zero hope whatsoever is also not an interesting one - but there clearly is hope in this story, it's just not shown very well.
This movie gets funnier every time i see it.
I wish movies now could be like this where you could watch the first 10 minutes free and see if you can tell if it’s gonna be garbage or a good movie
Very important film
watched it.... being able to understand Russian made the experience simpler... but not
Yaroslav Sobal don’t know Russian but that sounds about right!
well, the truth is that since mediaval times .....people have change very little still.
legendary. sticks to its conceptual guns
Amazing world-building! Wish I could find the entire film...
This is not a Game of thrones with dragons and washed people
GOT is childs play compared to this
after watching this, Game of thrones will seems like a teletubbies
@@AgentAlfie I find it realistic in the since that it take place in another world absent of the thought or Idea an omnipotent God. I was at first intrigued by the idea as being sort of a precursor commie version of an alternate Warhammer 40K universe primarily the planet Macragge cept not as clean.
@@bobsbigboy_GOT has always struck me as incredibly immature in general. People compare it to LOTR and I just roll my eyes.
You have to give a film like this a bit of concentration. I do like the attention to detail and the b/w but it's only the first 10 minutes of what could be a subtle comment on life as we don't see it. Give it a chance, we haven't seen a new Russian film for ages
Russia produces dozens of films a year, you just being ignorant of it.
Find more new Russian movies, you might be surprised how good they are.
@@peterk.6093any recommendations?
Absolute masterpiece
I wonder how this village would survive the Coronavirus pandemic if it hits it.
Neither Corona nor the Back Death kill everyone infected. In unprepared societies they only kill important parts of population and slow down the intellectual progress.
Perhaps they would not even notice. Among Cholera, Plague, Influenza, tuberculosis and typhes the locals definitely suffer, corona would go unnoticed.
according to official numbers, only .3% of them would die. 99.7% of the infected would survive.
They’d be just fine, just like we were. Seems like the “vaccines” did more damage than any virus.
I didnt understand a thing, and I dont think anyone else did either, but everyone wants to look smart so they are pretending they did.
Good work about movie. From province another in American different and hard to a be God story reality of movie.
I saw this in a meme.
Причём тут это название???????
For all intense and purposes, the lead character is a god among his people, they are essentially animals running on primal urges alone, they look to him as a god, they expect him to care for them, and yet will also stab him in the back for having what they want.
@@oscarplant6371Intents and purposes. I had the same interpretation of the the meaning of the name of the movie.
Антошка убаюкивал, а там липкий
It as everything to do with it.
I can almost smell the filth
We are experiencing something similar happening in the US. The denial of science, the villianization of the "academic elites", the rise of the anti-intellectual politics, the election of buffoons like Trump, the rise of religious fundamentalism, the reign of the idiots. I hope we can turn this around before it's too late.
True, sadly the left is no better, anti vaxing, anti facts, post modernism, relativism, the US is failing on all sides.
Well said, we do need a film which talks about the slavery of primitivism civilization in reverse
What a reactionary thought.... as if history hasn’t been repeating itself always, and as if a president of four years is going to send us into the dark ages.. come on man don’t fear monger
@@burn435353 "The left" isn't anti-vaxing and definitely not anti facts, what a dumb generalization
For two years this has been happening here in Brazil also exactly as you said.
Wtf
oh great, I don't speak "alien"
I read the book once. Incredible story, indeed. It was also incredible they let them publish it in USSR. This is clearly the Soviet Union, now Russia. The country where no renaissance came. Where the smart people were killed just because they were smart. And so all the other remained primitive and poor.
This is also why Putin is so easily understood by the Russians. He is just doing the same thing they know since the Mongolian times. Or even since the old Kyevian days, where the Vikings stole everything and became the ruling class. Married women by raping them in front of their parents, introduced "Christianity" by killing everyone who dared to resist. The same cultural patterns last to these days. There is no moral wrong to steal and rape in Russia if you are strong enough to do it. By not doing it you show your weakness.
The extent of russophobia in this comment is appalling.
@@КаринаБ-б3к Russia is a degenerate country. Top rates for alcoholism, abortion, drugs, islamization rivaling Sweden, 3rd world shit hole everywhere but Moscow and St. Peterspurg, the list goes on.
No phobia here, just the cold facts.
lmao... I think you're reaching a bit hahaha. But nice try though. Go back to consuming CNN garbage.
What an exampliary idiot)
@@ThePolistiren Please just think about yourselves... you know nothing about russia no-th-ing!!)))
Three hours long soft-core coprophiliac pornography featuring a good book, a brilliant actor, dozens of extras (half of them -- children), who look and act like schizophrenics. Zero plot, a lot of whining and whaling, tons of crap, mud and urine. It's extremely boring and disguising.
shut up you plebian piece of shit
@@bobsbigboy_ You're insulting the guy for giving his opinion? What's wrong with you? Do you have any arguments of why you think it was a good film?
Yeah, shut up you plebian piece of shit.
A perfect depiction of our medieval forefathers.
I loved it because that, all the sewage littering the streets, total lack of the basics hygienic norms and human rights and decency.
Just like the good old times.
@nick Funny, I saw the animme Gate and alwayss tought that it was too unrealistic, this movie is how I imagined how would look for us a Medieval society if we were to find one.
I found the film interesting at first but it's just way too long and disgusting to watch. The moral of the story, if there indeed is one, is simplistic and obvious (it's basically Idiocracy in the middle ages). Most of the dialogue seems completely random. The sci-fi elements are very poorly elaborated. I found it impossible to sympathize with the protagonist, he's almost as horrible of a person as the other people in the film. The majority of the screen time is just disgusting stuff happening unrelated to the story. The protagonist somehow is able to murder dozens of heavily armed soldiers without even being touched by them once, which is one of the many things that's not explained. These are just a few problems I had watching this film.
Try 1989 version of this.
All of these things are very well explained in the book. In fact, part of it is already in the title. He is the "god" for this society, he has some "superpowers" thanks to the fact of being sent here from the more developed Earth civilization. Like more developed combat skills. He is not supposed to interfere with the things, just to survive, observe and give reports. But it is all too "hard" in some moments, especially when he falls in love and loses the rational distance. In the book he does not kill, for which locals find him weird. But they still admire and accept him because of his recognizable skills.
Maybe the director concentrated so much on the visual part that he forgot to make sure these fundamental rules of the genre are clearly explained to everyone. Sometimes it is the way non-american, non-marvel movies are shot.
@@peterk.6093 more developed combat skills sure, but defeating 20 men with spears and armor, with his bare hands?
@@Meurth I agree, this part of authors licence seemed a bit too much for me also in the book. I am not sure if in the book he was not equipped with some kind of dress giving him the superpower and impermeability to the local weapons. It has been some years since I have read it.
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