Not young people, but provincial idiots! (Denis Kosikov (left) and Slava Kopeikin.) Photo: Wink
Brothers Roma and Zhenya (Slava Kopeikin from “The Boy’s Word” and Denis Kosikov from nowhere) are idiots. They live in the village of Neyasnoye and, like all idiots from remote villages, dream of raising, in the sense of cheating, more money. To do this, they steal a cable, search for a million on the footbridges and mine the crypt (I have no idea how it works, but all the provincial idiots in our cinema mine the crypt, while remaining provincial idiots).
The brothers were destined to die in the village of Neyasnoye from beatings by creditors, but they had guardian angels – screenwriters Yuri Vorobyov and Natalya Lyapina, previously unknown on film studios. First, generous angels brought the brothers loving girls – Roma, the owner of a tattoo parlor (Agniya Ditkovskite), and Zhenya, a topless classmate (Margarita Galich), because he was still a boy and was finishing tenth grade. But even with friends there was nothing to create a series from, and experienced people guessed that right now a bag of dollars, a trunk of heroin or – drum roll, pay attention to the title – would fall on the brothers! – a whole garage with experimental Kalashnikov assault rifles in their original packaging.
Something similar always happens in the plots of novice screenwriters aimed at a greedy audience. The greedy viewer is blind, he believes in lotteries, races and gambling. Why wouldn’t he also believe in the full arsenal of a motorized rifle company in a suburban garage? This is the Uncertainty, it is like this at every corner, but it is important not to give up and check everything. Experienced people, of course, understand that behind one hundred and thirteen guns there will immediately appear numerous teachers, bandits, gypsies and the criminal investigation department, but this also plays into the hands of the guardian angels, since they not only protect the brothers from the voucher, the prison and Kolyma, but are also responsible for the progressive development of the plot, and the listed people are invaluable assistants.
In fact, the best place for doldons who plan to sell automatic firearms as adults is in their bunks, and preferably until the end of their stupid creative life. However, service in the army apparently bypassed director Akopov, screenwriter Vorobiev and producers Dishdishyan and Kitaev (and screenwriter Lyapina and producer Filipuk were not threatened at all), and even in adulthood they do not realize that the cunning pieces of hardware of the titles were produced in order to make holes in people and take their lives. This means that only moral monsters are capable of creating money from them, which should not be humanized by a kind mother (Alexandra Ursulyak with good glasses), the spirit of Joseph Brodsky (Andrey Polishchuk with good glasses), loving girls and success in programming (Zhenya) and poetry (Roma). Because the target audience, numerous idiots from all Neyasnoe villages of our beloved Motherland, may imagine that this is a good idea and not see it until the fifth episode, where they make it clear that the idea is bad.
The film, of course, has its own charm, otherwise there would be nothing to talk about.
The Jew at the pawnshop cuts off the last letter of Romm’s surname and becomes a gypsy.
The policeman father calls his abandoned, tear-stained daughter to the river to drink beer.
In the room where the lovers have locked themselves away, the bed creaks, the music screams and the shoes are scattered: they jump on it barefoot and drunk on their father’s whiskey.
During the interrogation: “First name, last name.” – “Kashin Roman Mikhailovich, poet.” – “His name is unemployed.”
And then heresy again.
“Money is all power, bro,” one man tells another, challenging two great screenwriters and directors who have long since died.
Maybe so. It’s a good idea to win them over first, isn’t it?
It is a pity that this word does not belong to the Doldon vocabulary.
“On automatic”
18+
2024
Dir. Boris Akopov. Wink
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