Russian poison [original]

Dorian 2021-12-23 08:01:39

2008-03-21 16:21:31 When

the big fish was a child, he was poisoned by the Russians. I read "How Steel Is Made" over and over again. Now, I am caught by this group again. In the ice and snow of Siberia, the powerful drugs made by bear men and tiger women who drank VODKA were poisoned to the point where they bleed forever.

In August 2005, I watched "Night Watch" for the first time. Frankly speaking, I was silly, and after reading it for a while, I was in a daze for a long time. I couldn't fall asleep anyway, and I got up at three o'clock in the middle of the night and looked again. As a result, my mind was blank when I saw it.

This year, I accidentally found the second one, "Day Watch", so the two were connected. Last weekend, I watched it in cycles for two days and one night. This weekend, I watched it in cycles and over and over again.

The background of the story is not complicated, light and dark, evil and good. The time and place are simple. Thousands of years ago, in 1992 and 2004, it was always MOSCOW. Character settings are also common, such as vampires, wizards, witches, druids, and foreseeers.

This is a cup of poison. It is a cocktail based on VODKA, a mixture of medieval magic signs and 21st century Russian customs. Gloomy, anxious, weird, bloody, warm, unrestrained, gentle, gorgeous, the mixture in the witch's glass, the whispering spell, the bloody and twisted fingers of the young life thousands of miles away, the blonde beauty transformed into a Siberian tiger, refrigerator The glass jars stained with blood, the NOKIA 7650 next to the brass water pipes, the cobweb-like brilliant lights of Moscow at night-neither domineering like Manhattan, nor petite and exquisite like Hong Kong, chasing on the crowded roads , In a blink of an eye, with the light of a flashlight, hidden into the dark and deserted dusk world where only mosquito wings are heard, the blood-stained Anton can only see the vampire Ande through the fragments of the mirror. Lie, the light emitted by the torch with the black hexagonal prism bulb has the power of a photon cannon on the subjects who serve the darkness. At the concert, the charming snake-like female singer sang and danced in Russian with a strange pronunciation, and the charcoal painted virginity. The female legend, the screw conveys the disaster of 30,000 feet, the 3D video game of Zawulong, the LCD electronic watch on Anton’s wrist resembling the Casio A168WA-1U, the Apple computer at Yegor’s house, the dumplings and hand pilaf at Zhaoer’s bar , The spider baby crawling around, the "yo-yo" like a chocolate ball that can destroy the world, and the bottle of VODKA in the drawer of Zhasar, which is as pure as ice for thousands of years~

At the end of the watchman, Svetlana and Yegor both tried to keep Anton by their side. On the one hand, they are the son who has not fulfilled their father’s love and are full of guilt, and on the other is the loyal and tender lover, Anton’s footsteps The cracks on both sides of the building that was about to fall were like a heart tearing in half; a large piece of sharp glass fell straight on several floors above his head, just as Anton was almost cut in half and killed tragically. , The leader of the subjects of light——Zarsar pressed the shutter of the camera in his hand, the dazzling flash light came on, the film began to be exposed, everything that was happening was temporarily frozen, Anton looked up at the hanging overhead flashing The cold glass pulled his hands out of the fight between the two, "Anton, you'd better move faster. The exposure time for this camera is very short." Anton dashed in the still world and came to collapse. , The hut with only one wall-twelve years ago, the witch’s kitchen that completely changed his fate, on the ruins, wrote the word that changed his own fate and changed the fate of the entire world with a pen of fate on the ruins. --"Do not". Just like the general Temur, who came back from the dead in the movie, Anton, Svetlana, Simon, Big Bear, Tiger, Zhasar, Zaulong, and of course, there is also the process of changing Anton’s fate. The red witches who played a key role in the game have all returned to twelve years ago. The witch still used a trap to lure Anton, but this time, Anton’s answer was: "No." So, everything changed. Anton did not become the "other", and what happened in the two movies will never happen again. The red witch will not be punished and turned into a toad for twelve years, the war between light and darkness will not happen, and the end of the world will not come. However, as an ordinary person, Anton still recognizes Si in the sunny rain. Vitalana, the lover finally got married, "I didn't expect it to end like this," "Fate!" Zhasar and Zawlong on the roadside bench looked at each other and smiled. Very happy ending.

However, Anton’s son, Yegor, according to what Zawulong said to Anton at the end of the night watch, “If you are destined to drown, you must drown; if you are destined to fall to death, you must fall to death. Yegor is already doomed. Become supreme, but you made him choose darkness.” This means that even if Anton will not become the other, his son will still be the determinant of the power of light and darkness in twelve years. Uncertain, it's just black or white.

Moreover, the existence of such a blissful ultimate magical instrument, the Pen of Destiny, itself gives infinite possibilities to the plot of the third part of the series "Twilight Messenger".

Fate, who knows?

These two films are full of strong texture, surging tension, countless symbols and elements hidden in them, full of fun and intriguing. It can even be said that if you pause every 10 seconds, there may be unexpected discoveries, which will be excessive. Compression of the original information into the film and interpretation, not only is not the failure of others to cause confusion and inexplicable plot, for me, it is precisely its most unique and greatest success as a Russian CULT movie.

Russia, Volga, thousands of miles of snowfields, people who speak peculiarly pronounced languages ​​or straightforward or cunning people, pure as ice and dry as fire vodka, on the icy and snowy highway with a slight stomping on the gas pedal, in the gunfire. The men who flew down the muddy trenches confided in their mothers’ thoughts of their lovers, and in the potato fields in the birch forest, at the banquet in the village by the side of the birch forest, the blonde and blue-eyed skin was as snowy or cold or unrestrained, but women who all dared to love and hate, Russia The three words themselves mean a kind of mysterious charm. This cold country, despite its open arms, seems to have nothing to do with the whole world. Just like her people, in a superb environment, it may be humble and poor, or it may be only promise, but with the broad and deep thoughts like the earth, such as Steel-like perseverance and unyielding faith, wit, stubbornly and stubbornly survive, nurturing and carrying forward his own unique and charismatic culture, enjoying the happiness and tenderness that stretches for thousands of years, and continuing to be firm and unconquered by Napoleon. Conquered by the three empires, the will of Russia that was not conquered by the Cold War and will never be conquered.


The film style of this country has been maintained for many years. The film in this country has been silent for many years. The night watchman and the sun watcher, with a very Russian atmosphere, with a very un-Russian atmosphere, turned out to be amazing.

The only regret I feel is that I can’t understand Russian or Russian. I can’t understand Russia and Moscow the way I understand the United States and New York. I don’t understand Russian customs, and I rarely hear the legends of this country. , I can't decipher the meaning of many symbols in the movie, and many wonderful foreshadowings may be missed by me. Of course, this is also a very good thing for me.

I can’t remember how many times I watched the movie. The flaming red sports car on the side of the mansion by Mercedes-Benz was in a mess. The moment the film was exposed, the plot to rewrite the universe and save the world was also shocking like never before, and at the end of the sun-watcher, that was to make his son a human being. And the convicted vampire, the humble and thin butcher, the father with two dentures, before being taken away by the watchman, his shorts and the clothespins on the vest always let me Feeling breathless...

In the hunting wind and snow, wrapped up in a coat, raised his head to pour a sip of Russian poison, and savored in the experience of spreading ice and fire.

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Extended Reading
  • Pete 2021-12-23 08:01:39

    A thought between heaven and hell

  • Pietro 2022-04-23 07:02:49

    Where is the bullshit?

Night Watch quotes

  • Vampiress Larisa, initiate: I want to live.

    Anton Gorodetsky: So live. Live. Who's stopping you?

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: I want to be human again.

    Anton Gorodetsky: You want to be human? Then act like a human.

  • Yegor: Mom? Mom! Are vampires real?

    Irina, Yegor's mother: Yes, Yegor. They are little boys who have been known to suck all the life out of their parents.

    Yegor: I'm serious. They're real. I saw some.