Sarkinsev's author's style has not changed over the years: fixed long shots, cool tones, restrained dialogue, atmospheric classical music, sly suspense, and a symbolic character. Such comments can be applied to almost all of his previous works. This time, we still use the theme of social news. On the surface, it describes the terrible impact on children after the breakup of the relationship between husband and wife in a family, but secretly depicts the social outlook of contemporary Russia in a side-by-side manner. The problem is that I have seen a lot of works with similar themes in recent years: Turkish director Ceylon's "Three Monkeys", Romanian New Wave director Mongi's "Graduation Exam", and nothing more exciting than Iranian director Farhati's "Once Upon a Time". Farewell" and "The Salesman". The commonality of such films usually has the shell of a family ethics drama, and then constructs plot conflicts through a lot of sensational social news, and then reflects the hidden social issues such as religion, race and class, as well as sharp political metaphors. Sarkinsev's new work this year is not very innovative and breakthrough. The method of exposing social problems through radio broadcasts and news clips is not very clever. . The only thing that people can talk about seems to be the beautiful long shots that are comparable to the film master Tarkovsky. The natural landscape under his lens has a desolate feeling of desolation and decadence. Whether it is the dead wood by the lake or the forest with flying snow, it has an amazing fit with the reality of Russian society.
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