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Donbass (2018)
Criminal storytell
Tragicomedy, a must see. Visual pop-up of state aspirations to show to the world.
The film tells of the disaster, comparable to the blockade of Soviet Leningrad during WWII by Nazis. Incredible fact of such a life in Europe in 2019. The film shows the no man's, unnecessary land - a zone of alienation of common sense, where moral guidelines are lost.
One of the strongest documentary filmmakers in the post-Soviet space appeals to the artistic genre, wishing to convey impartial facts to their people and European neighbors. The camera, soaring and fixing at the top corner of the scene at the end of the film, underlines the melancholic neutrality that the director tries to observe in his story despite the fact that it is about crimes.
Some unnaturalness of acting in mass scenes blurs the line between documentary and feature film, naturalizing what is happening: the lie portrayed by the actor is shaded by people who are not required to depict anything, because they know that at the moment of shooting they are lying, so on their faces frozen lost embarrassment, distrust.
The contrast of the actors' low recognition with their sharp, piercing characters immerses them in the film firmly, allowing them to believe.
Macbeth (2015)
Tragedy
It seems everybody forgot today what the real tragedy is. In conditions of eternal fear to consult anyone's feelings, the genre of clear tragedy vanishes completely. If only George Martin allows to himself to kill consistently several characters in his books, we can hear yellings like 'he is a slasher!' or 'he kills everybody!'. It's strange for me, as we do not mind of blood rivers and streams in Tarantino's movies. Maybe because it is funny', I guess.
Let's refer to an encyclopedia: 'Tragedy - branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events of private or a public character encountered or caused by a heroic individual and usually leads to the hero's death'. Some Shakespeare's plays are tragedies and they were and will be it, as you might want it or not. If the place and time of the action moved, the meaning will be not changed. As it is important to understand the Chekhov is the great playwright of dramas, the same time it is important to realize why Shakespeare is the great tragedian.
If you are not afraid to wade through the wilds of Scottish English with its archaic words, if there is no fear in your brave heart of the Shakespeare's iamb, if you love Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in particular and British actors in general, so you have to watch this film.