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RE: Sokurov's, "Moloch." The best film I've seen about Hitler

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on November 12, 2007 at 15:58:03

In Reply to: Sokurov's, "Moloch." The best film I've seen about Hitler posted by tinear on November 12, 2007 at 13:11:54:

I hated Moloch, and I hated its sister - Telets.

Interestingly, just a couple of days ago we watched the Russian documentary - Vasya. I strongly recommend it to you, knowing your interests and love for arts.

There was a strong wave of that type of anti-humanist art that appeared in the USSR in the mid-seventies. Some of it was wonderful, most of it non-conformist, but unfortunately, it quickly took a nasty turn, and Vasya (Vassilij Sytnikov), and Sokurov to large degree represent that anti-humanist wing. For some unexplained reason it dominates the modern Russian art, and to many Westerners it represents its soul.

It is meant to be shocking, unpleasant, and to significant degree - regurgitation of novel works of the surrealist and expressionist art.

I dislike it with passion.

In the same vein is the Ostrov:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851577/

Art like this tends to be heavily Russophile, in spite of often being anti-communist. It is dark, gloomy, torturous... all the things that one often finds in works of Bergman and Tarkovsky, except there is so much more in works of those other artists.

In Vasya (man, you MUST rent it!) you will see the "traditional" Russian motives, those of constantly drunk anti-social beast, tireless fucker and a person with no ideals, or distorted ideals... Rasputin, or his modern day reincarnation - Vasya.

So much of it is based on fascination with that sort of dirt, that it itself becomes revolting, for it is no longer just the portrayal of the grim reality, it is now part of it.

So this, in short, is why I don't like Sokurow.

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