Dream and reality Hope and despair Beauty and ugliness Tranquility and horror
These are the things the `Dom durakov' is about. The fundamental notions of the human being, of the life itself. Therefore, the film is more philosophical rather than commercial. A signature of Konchalovsky.
The film strikes one with the continual drastic change of conception of the plot. And the way, in which it's made is very interesting: not only the colour spectrum changes, but the character structure, too. I think it was a great idea to include Bryan Adams and his song `Have You Ever Loved a Woman' into the film as an aggregate of dream, hope, beauty and tranquility...
The whole film is taken in the pallid, miserly colours. With the ruins of Chechnya. With real mentally ill people. With real Bryan Adams. An interesting gathering, isn't it?That's the point, where the film attracts ones attention. But no more...
Some critics envision a nomination for the Oscar and even an Oscar itself for this film. I can't agree with them. What ruins the whole sense is the impossibility of the film to summarize all the ideas, put forward in it. By the end one feels incompleteness, something unsaid. And the story of each character stays also incomplete. Sure, you can make up the End by yourself, but it's not the place and time for this. You need a specific, having-a-single-meaning end of each story individually and in the whole.
All in all, a worth to watch, still very controversial and can leave you either completely unsatisfied or very pleased with itself.
These are the things the `Dom durakov' is about. The fundamental notions of the human being, of the life itself. Therefore, the film is more philosophical rather than commercial. A signature of Konchalovsky.
The film strikes one with the continual drastic change of conception of the plot. And the way, in which it's made is very interesting: not only the colour spectrum changes, but the character structure, too. I think it was a great idea to include Bryan Adams and his song `Have You Ever Loved a Woman' into the film as an aggregate of dream, hope, beauty and tranquility...
The whole film is taken in the pallid, miserly colours. With the ruins of Chechnya. With real mentally ill people. With real Bryan Adams. An interesting gathering, isn't it?That's the point, where the film attracts ones attention. But no more...
Some critics envision a nomination for the Oscar and even an Oscar itself for this film. I can't agree with them. What ruins the whole sense is the impossibility of the film to summarize all the ideas, put forward in it. By the end one feels incompleteness, something unsaid. And the story of each character stays also incomplete. Sure, you can make up the End by yourself, but it's not the place and time for this. You need a specific, having-a-single-meaning end of each story individually and in the whole.
All in all, a worth to watch, still very controversial and can leave you either completely unsatisfied or very pleased with itself.