A
Gentle Creature
is a bleak foray into the hopelessness of Russian bureaucracy and
meanness.
The protagonist is like a camera, a naive participant being passively led deeper into a world that has nothing for her at best and will destroy her as easily as they will ignore her.
Universally repugnant characters dismiss any lingering mystique about the brotherhood of the Russian Revolution. There is nothing left but futility and corruption and a bit of surrealism if you're lucky.
The protagonist is like a camera, a naive participant being passively led deeper into a world that has nothing for her at best and will destroy her as easily as they will ignore her.
Universally repugnant characters dismiss any lingering mystique about the brotherhood of the Russian Revolution. There is nothing left but futility and corruption and a bit of surrealism if you're lucky.
But
this is what some of us crave in our cinema, a harrowing experience
of some of the real pain going on in the world to break down all the
illusions we futilely use to protect us from reality. Sometimes
nothing is more depressing than a fake-happy movie that you can't
quite believe in and that leaves you feeling hollow.
I
would recommend Loveless over
this as the latest cinematic depiction of the soullessness of modern
Russian society, but I also cannot dismiss the determination and
dignity of this film.
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