I actually needed that. A good dark comedy, that says so much about our current world, by literally having almost nothing to do with it.
At first the story seems like the standard disfunctional family - a bit rough, a bit bitter, but all understandable. Old friends, old stories, old dramas. Then, guns mix with alchohol and standard Russian nihilism and the results are absolutely hilarious. It seems like everybody is unhappy over getting or not getting certain STD. Which seems as funny as it is, makese sense - getting a STD in a small town must be very traumatic, as literally EVERYBODY will know about it. And since it's the end of the world, things get very rough, very soon.
If "Don't look up" focuses on people ignoring the problem, in this Russian version, they show people who don't ignore it, but instead, try to live with it and miserably fail.
Anyway, we had a good laugh, most of the time with the WTF look on our faces.
5.6Plot summary
Present day. A comet approaches the Earth, carrying the ultimate destruction. The government is disbanded, there is no communication or transport. The world is in chaos. This does not stop the main characters, Anna and Andrei, a couple that lives in a provincial town, from waiting their sons, who had left the town nine years ago, to come back. They dream to reunite the family for this last event. The kids do come, but the family reunion makes the life of the couple much harder. The comet is getting closer, and everybody needs to speak out everything they did not say earlier. However, the most important words bring out grievances accumulated over the years, hidden desires, skeletons in the cupboard; the characters cannot even gather around the festive table. Will they manage to stay a family or did the apocalypse happen long before the coming of the comet?
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