An idealistic young plumber for local apartment complexes discovers on a routine visit that an apartment complex with 840 residents is about to collapse. The apartment complex has numerous socioeconomic issues - high unemployment, drug abuse, and domestic abuse. One resident beats his wife and daughter. Most people are looking out for themselves, and know that there is lots of corruption and apathy amongst the elites of the city.
The plumber, decides against the advice of his wife and mother, to interrupt the mayor's party at night to alert the authorities of the eminent collapse of the building. The plumber discovers quickly that everyone thinks him a fool and a bother for dare disrupting the lives of the city elites about the building iminent collapse.
Thus begins the realization that greed and corruption of the years has bankrupt the government, and key people in authority are only thinking of retiring to their dream houses in the outer suburbs away from the decay of the city.
Those begins a series of tragic-comic reactions that result in the silencing of those who know too much. His wife blames him for dare even being the fool to bring the building issue to the authorities, who already knew about the building's structural issues. In the end, the plumber vainly alerts and evacuates the 840 residents early in the morning. Only to be killed by a mob led by the husband who beats his wife and daughter.
A couple of things. Firstly, it is easy just to engage in Russophobia and think this only happens there. However, things like this happen in the "western World", too, albeit maybe not in such a dramatic fashion. Greed is a univeral problem. Secondly, the ending leaves the audience to guess what happens after the hero alerts the residents of the danger to their home. I was led to believe that the husband who led the mob to kill the hero may have already been alerted by the authorities to expect trouble from the plumber. One is not hopeful that the hero's sacrifice of his life to save the residents from a collapse may have just been in vain. If the building did eventually collapse, maybe the plumber's action would just have been written off as a tree falling in the woods that no one heard.
The plumber, decides against the advice of his wife and mother, to interrupt the mayor's party at night to alert the authorities of the eminent collapse of the building. The plumber discovers quickly that everyone thinks him a fool and a bother for dare disrupting the lives of the city elites about the building iminent collapse.
Thus begins the realization that greed and corruption of the years has bankrupt the government, and key people in authority are only thinking of retiring to their dream houses in the outer suburbs away from the decay of the city.
Those begins a series of tragic-comic reactions that result in the silencing of those who know too much. His wife blames him for dare even being the fool to bring the building issue to the authorities, who already knew about the building's structural issues. In the end, the plumber vainly alerts and evacuates the 840 residents early in the morning. Only to be killed by a mob led by the husband who beats his wife and daughter.
A couple of things. Firstly, it is easy just to engage in Russophobia and think this only happens there. However, things like this happen in the "western World", too, albeit maybe not in such a dramatic fashion. Greed is a univeral problem. Secondly, the ending leaves the audience to guess what happens after the hero alerts the residents of the danger to their home. I was led to believe that the husband who led the mob to kill the hero may have already been alerted by the authorities to expect trouble from the plumber. One is not hopeful that the hero's sacrifice of his life to save the residents from a collapse may have just been in vain. If the building did eventually collapse, maybe the plumber's action would just have been written off as a tree falling in the woods that no one heard.