The film “Air” is another spit on the Great Patriotic War
Another movie about the Great Patriotic War has been released. We have already forgotten the film “Bastards”; Bondarchuk’s “Stalingrad” has almost been forgotten. Apparently, they decided to remind us that “the enemy does not sleep.” The film, in the truest sense of the word, is a dull piece of crap. Dejection permeates the entire film.
The film was a complete failure at the box office. The Internet is replete with negative assessments.
Surprisingly, the advertising has done its job, and people are coming. Although many leave the hall. And I didn’t hear anyone discussing it after watching the film. People look as if they have eaten something extremely unpleasant and inedible.
As political correctness suggests, before you scold, I will praise. There's not much to praise the film for though. Restored equipment from the Great Patriotic War was brought into the picture. But this is definitely not the merit of the film’s authors. They reproduced the military uniform quite well, although even here questions arise: for example, why do the heroes wear winter uniforms in September? Or why in the same scene some servicemen wear winter hats and others wear caps? The aircraft mock-ups were made ugly, one of them even had half of its elevator fall off, and no one bothered to install it properly.
To film the film, we used the latest technologies, aircraft simulators, virtual reality, and even wrote special software. The views from the cockpit and the shaking of the plane in flight are reproduced quite realistically. And all these efforts and enormous amounts of money were spent in order to remove the suck. The film is dull from the first to the last minute. All the action takes place against the backdrop of monotonous and disgusting music.
We can discuss for a long time whether women flew at the front or not. But there were very few female pilots, there were even fewer fighters among them, they were taken care of and tried not to be allowed into the thick of things. Moreover, among them there were such bright heroines as Marina Raskova. One of the heroines was copied from her, but this heroine is no different except for her boorish attitude towards the commanders. It's not easy to understand who it is and why she behaves this way.
Marina Mikhailovna Raskova - Soviet pilot-navigator, major of the Red Army Air Force, one of the first women awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union
All actresses have “current” eyebrow tattoos, which did not and could not have happened during the war. And they have "glamorous small talk" that simply could not have happened at that time
From the very first minutes there was a desire to loudly shout “I don’t believe it!” – everything that happened in the film was so unnatural and contrived.
The actions of the heroes are just as ridiculous and even criminal. The commander forces the main character to kill the horse! But this is government property, and a tribunal awaited such a commander!
Not to mention the fact that the main character spends the whole film tormented by the question: “What is more important – the Motherland or the people”? And only towards the end of the film does he find an answer that is striking in its stupidity and banality.
By the way, no political workers are visible anywhere in the film. But in any squadron there was a political officer who flew on combat missions with the pilots and knew their moods very well. A pilot who refused to shoot in a dogfight would simply not be allowed to fly further, let alone give the important task that the main character received.
The heroine herself definitely has a mental disorder, because right in the middle of an enemy raid she calmly wanders among the wounded, looks indifferently at the blood and suffering, ignores the cries of “Get down!”, and even aims at enemy planes with a revolver (!). With the same sadistic calm, she puts a revolver in the mouth of an unsuccessful rapist colleague, and then kills him.
For some reason, two techies are competing to take the blame upon themselves instead of the heroine who committed a serious military crime. And the commander, like the last mug, believed the lies of his subordinates and did not even bother to conduct an official investigation. And the heroine, completely calmly and without any remorse, agrees for her colleague to substitute himself in her place.
And for some reason the psychopathic heroine talks about a pedophile teacher in her unhappy childhood and how she killed him.
And such a morally unstable and mentally deranged pilot is entrusted with ferrying the plane from behind enemy lines. This in itself is doubtful. No such cases are known.
With such a landing, the plane most likely received damage, it was impossible to repair it behind enemy lines, but here we see an intact plane, only covered in blood, standing right in the middle of a field, and in no way disguised from observation from the air. It’s simply amazing how the Germans haven’t yet arrived and turned not only the plane, but the entire partisan detachment into dust. At best, such planes were burned.
Next is a heartbreaking scene about a child who is asked to be taken to starving Leningrad! From there, on the contrary, the children were evacuated! And the bungling pilot, not only did not look around and exposed herself to the German’s attack, but also did not in any way register the child, who was simply supposed to be thrown around the cockpit. And after all these “feats”, the heroine, towards the end, flaunts officer’s uniform and even turns out to be a commander. Yes, and she shoots down the Germans, never understanding: “What is she fighting for?”
Then the main sadistic heroine is shot down, and she magically ends up right in the trenches with the soldiers. And he even enthusiastically shoots his own soldiers in the back with a revolver, not forgetting to show his “butt” in close-up.
And then there is simply savoring the blood, corpses, serious injuries and deaths. There is a lot of blood in the film, and it seems that the filmmakers simply enjoy all this horror, showing it from all sides and in all details.
At the same time, not forgetting to separately savor the beating of captured Germans with rifle butts by scoundrels partisans, and the death of the crew of an anti-aircraft gun - it was shown in every detail for a very long time. Like victims innocently killed by the villainous heroine... And in the close-up you can clearly see the inanimate faces of the dolls.
The authors, through the mouths of the heroes, do not forget to scold the bad engineers who produce bad planes that will never be better than the enemy.
I have already written about the absence of political officers. But military discipline is lame on all legs and arms. A subordinate can easily address the commander on a first-name basis and even be rude to him. The commander, in front of the entire military team, hugs his subordinate and strokes her.
The film consists of a bunch of illogical and unconnected pieces. It is almost unclear where the heroes come from, and it is unclear what most of them do. The action jumps around different parts of the front.
After each scene there is an expectation that the film will end there, but the authors torment the viewer further.
Absolutely mediocre and clumsy filming. Despite all the pains with the aircraft simulators, the dogfights are poorly filmed, either from the cockpit or from the ground. The scenes are very short. Although the technical means so mediocrely used in this film could help film air battles no worse than in the rather mediocre American film “Top Gun: Maverick.” It must be said that “Top Gun,” for all its shortcomings, turned out to be quite a spectacular film. And here we have some kind of squalor...
The Germans have the same pilot flying, who falls with the plane to the ground, explodes, and after 5 minutes we see him again in the cockpit of the Messer. Surprisingly, the authors forgot to mention that he “shot down 300 of our planes.”
The film is replete with close-ups. It seems that for the filming they recruited cameramen who were picking up cameras for the first time, and the director did not tell them how to shoot. For some reason, the scenes are interrupted by black frames, as if the film was edited by some editor who saw a computer for the first time.
There is a lot of dirt in the film, in every way. There was always a feeling that the filmmakers wanted to pour out as much of this abomination as possible on the audience. You can delve into this filth for a long time, but somehow you don’t want to anymore.
I almost forgot to say that the filmmakers clearly received a kickback from tobacco companies. The entire film is an unbridled advertisement for smoking. And with the message: “Smoke - you will be a hero.”
So, in my opinion, what was released on the screens was not just another mediocre film about the war. But it turned out to be just a tasty spit in the direction of the Great Patriotic War and our ancestors who fought at the front. Moreover, from eminent figures favored by the current government. Although even Wikipedia writes that this director, Alexei German Jr., has “a sophisticated visual culture that often prevails over meaning.” Let's translate it into Russian - he hasn't made a single good film.
And what a wonderful gift this is to liberals of all stripes! This is an excellent reason for them to slander that “Kremlin propaganda” has made another bad film about the war. By the way, the “liberals” have already appreciated it. Sobchak is delighted.
You can even be glad for the younger generation that they are not watching such films.
Channel One is now talking about what kind of film opus will be shot in Hollywood about Zelensky. But is it worth washing the bones of the decaying American cinema if we are filming with public money? a?
And maybe the Investigative Committee will pay attention to the director and another fake about the war? “Bastards”, flying this time?
And who will ask the question why, once again, at the people’s expense, the Great Patriotic War and its heroes were so slandered? And whose order was fulfilled this time?
Judging by the fact that the film was first shown at the Tokyo Film Festival, it is more aimed at foreign consumers. All the more vile is the act of the authors who slandered history of their homeland.
Alas, the question remains unanswered: who will answer?
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