And we find ourselves in someone else’s destiny. Back in the early 90’s thirteen-year-old max’s parents gave him a video camera – in these times of old, with the VHS tape. And he did not part with it – recorded everything without any goals, effortlessly. But after a quarter of a century, have collected old VHS tapes, CDs and phone capture, so, plucking up the courage to press Play and re-scroll my life. With all her nonsense boyish loves, teenage cruelty, youthful romanticism. With friends, long-vanished from the horizons. With the happy times, when “there was a young mother and father alive.” With merry companies, parties, discos, drinking and group travel to Barcelona for the concert of the band Foo Fighters.
French Director Anthony Marciano set itself, at first glance, a formal challenge: I dare you to shoot the entire movie in the style of home video?! With a unstable hand-held camera with mounting husk, with uneven recorded sound, with details interesting only to those with a camera and indulged in a shot that got into the frame. Nearly two hours Amateur inept movie, which has one task – to throw the world a dispassionate gaze of the camera. But it turned out that it was the glow of air travellers departing moments of life. No this movie is not glued, do not cut off the excess, not trying to make random shots of something clear – it is not intended for prying eyes. Just bought this phone myself a miracle, the boy frolicked with him, and now suddenly it turned out that these plastic boxes – the fate of him and his generation. Truly a miracle. So Lumiere had once discovered the possibilities of the new inventions, not knowing that the birth of a new art.
Marciano used to draw and put into action a social phenomenon, born in the lifetime of recent generations, the mass fascination with the chaotic filming. He intuitively feels the thousands of accidents as would-be writers switowski of Laputa, could inadvertently develop a pattern. And these accidents are enthusiastically experimenting. But at the same time is the life of a generation with his favorite discoveries: the first viral video phenomenon of YouTube, people, scraps of half-forgotten melodies, shadows proverbmusic pop-rock stars… And at the same time together with the characters of Mature technology: VHS replaced with digital tapes and hard disk drives, bulky lenses – almost indistinguishable eyes of cell phones. Improving the picture becomes three-dimensional sound, which is now able to transmit even distance. The people who dubbed the picture, apparently, appreciated the findings of the author, they became interested and all this is very accurately conveyed in the Russian soundtrack.
the Characters are young, and the dominant tone of the picture – the natural optimism and vital energy of youth. Caught unawares by life, who have not known their rigid laws. Not yet poisoned by disappointment. Accident life each may have their own, but this calf’s state of mind and body ever every experienced. Including everyone in the audience an unusual film. A picture of someone else’s life, with its strange detail is seen as a chronicle of your own destiny, someone else’s home video with people’s faces on the foggy screen – as something intimate, almost like your own family album.
of Course, for many years, there are movies that play with the theme of home video and extracting it into a new grain of human cognition – of the most famous and scandalous “Sex, lie and video” and Soderbergh’s “benny’s Video” Haneke. But there is another case: home video becomes part of life, not a tool of her research, and the essence and meaning. When the life we see reflected light, but the choice of objects to us on the screen is a view of the hero, his inner world. Reality stick together with a virtual time machine invented and working. The film really found the key to the secret door in the closet Pope Carlo – a fresh way to talk about the hero. Let one time use (any repetition of taking just bores you), but very effective and impressive.
This is a film about growing up and about love. Love prodavshica obstacles (we all know how to pile up!), through betrayal and jealousy, through the machinations of the case and a silly joke friends. And – winning. The movie long forgotten in the movie optimism. The author found an admission completely destroys the line between us and the screen: in the brilliant movie, woody Allen’s “Purple rose of Cairo”, but without his lovely conventionality and metaphoricity candidly, directly. Not sure that this film will appeal to everyone – some people quickly get bored of jumping the camera, some prefer cinema more glamorous and with a more coherent plot than this as if spontaneously formed a chronicle of love. Such a film requires a friendly attitude and willingness to take this life for what it is. Before us is a movie, hopeless at the box office, but perfect for a leisurely home viewing. When we settle down with a Cup of coffee or, better, with a glass of wine in front of the monitor and the iPad in anticipation of the meeting with the half-forgotten friends press key Play.
