In the Russian online rolling out the first English-language film Małgorzata Chusovskoy “Come to me” (The Other Lamb). At the time of leaving his native Poland with its realities, to a new site, the stage Director decided to rely on the universal images that are understandable without translation, but in the end, it seemed to Julia Siegelman failed in platitudes and endless rehashing of platitudes.In a certain Kingdom, in an unknown state, in the dark, dark forest lives a big family. Husband and father — also called the Shepherd here, as it should be, one: it’s a beautiful man with long hair and beard, casually reminding preparandose of Christ (the Dutchman of Michel Hausman, known to the General public on the role of one of the beloved Daenerys in “Game of thrones”). The rest of the family are all women — wives, dressed in red (who said “the handmaid’s Tale”?), and daughters, respectively, in blue. For sermons, Shepherd broadcasts about the dangers and sins of the outside world and love, which built the community, they dress in white. White woolen threads symbolizing the border separating the two worlds, entangled by the trees in the forest. Wool is also not metaphorical, but most of these lambs, give sheep, which feeds the family and dresses (the sheep in the herd, of course, also the only).At night, the Shepherd gives another beloved among the wives in his mercy, after the inherent nature of the period the number of daughters updated, and reaching maturity, daughters become wives. What happens if suddenly a boy is born, from time to time was not disclosed, but to guess in General it’s easy. As to what is expected of a Shepherd and his flock to the end of the film — enough to meet the full internal rage look SELA (Raffi Cassidy), one of the daughters, just standing on the threshold of female adulthood. The first menstruation, which the Shepherd, quite in the spirit of all traditional religions, as a sign of impurity of body and spirit, comes to her simultaneously with the doubt of the correctness of the vicious world in which they live, she and her sisters.Additional impetus for the rethinking is also the first intervention of external civilization — to the enchanted forest is the police and demands that the Shepherd with his charges cleared away. At this point we understand that the action happens more or less in our time, and, it seems, in America, nothing new but this knowledge does not add to what is happening. The community goes on a journey through the endless expanses, as strikingly beautiful as they are harsh (the film was shot in Ireland, and the camera was a constant operator Shumovskii Michal Englert), and on the road, coupled with many difficulties already quite everyday life, it becomes clear that the Shepherd-tvery good.The main message of the painting, and its symbolism is very simple, easy to understand and straightforward. Of course, it’s an allegory of Patriarchy in General, which have the power men repress, restrict and rape, and women suffer mentally and physically, until he finally find the courage to rebel. Not that in 2020 it was a revelation. But Szumowska and writer Katherine S. just some (this is her debut in a feature film) not trying to analyze this system, and just to state, accompanying it with a set of simple illustrations that nothing good from it should not wait. Including those who created and led this vicious hierarchy— well, as they say, among the sheep, but against the man himself, and sheep.
