Natal Quartet – Weekend
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On the Kion platform, a series based on the script by Vasily Sigarev was released, in the center of the plot are four provincial girlfriends who decided to give birth in the United States in order to provide American citizenship to their children. Time of action – 2008.
In the distant village of Livni – on the road sign the first letter is crossed out and added “b”, it turns out “Tusks” – a real commotion. Delovaya Zina (Anastasia Popova) accidentally discovers a great way to change everything. All you need to do is give birth to a child in the United States, where the 14th amendment to the constitution is in force: if you were born in America, then you will be an American citizen. Live, raise a child, and in 21 years you will also become an American. Zina is a born start-up artist and, like a good friend, she is in a hurry to share the stunning idea of a social elevator with others – sister Gelya (Anna Kotova), childless secretary Tanya (Lina Mirimskaya) and informal orphan Kira (Maria Osipova) who turned up at the arm. At the corporate party of the city-forming Livnevskaya poultry farm, among vodka, Russian salad, dances and toasts to prosperity in 2008, the ladies, not without doubts, but still decide to join Zina’s concession. First of all, because of the disgusting men (all drunks and petty tyrants) and the despondency of Russian life, and secondly, they seem to have simply sensed the wind of change – Medvedev’s “thaw” and “reset” are approaching, and giving birth to an American is not so scary even in Livny, where the level of love for the motherland goes off scale, and the inhabitants of the United States are called exclusively “Pindos”. Patriotism is portrayed stoically by the hero of Dmitry Kulichkov, who amuses himself by shooting from pneumatics at a photograph of the Statue of Liberty and demands from his wife to give birth to soldiers for the commander in chief.
Uninhibited everyday humor on topical topics strongly connects the nostalgic reality of the Baby Tour, where they have not yet had time to get used to the phrase “maternity capital”, with disturbing modernity. On the one hand, of course, this is still a ticklish retro: remember, there was such Grudinin, and they also promised not to raise the retirement age? On the other hand, you don’t know what to do – laugh or cry, when a formidable and ridiculous district policeman named Dmitry Anatolyevich bursts into the frame at the same time and begins to stop the offense. Yes, the script was written by the caustic Vasily Sigarev, but he is not exactly mocking, but rather quite innocently making fun of the audience, using a temporary distance to remind him of what the authorities promised and did not come true.
However, public policy in the “Baby Tour” is clearly not the main thing. Much more important is the politics of the body – what kind of heroines do the authors suggest we fall in love with. Four – Zina, Gel, Tanya, Kira – older peers “Chick”real sisters. They are not yet aware of the latest trends in femtheory, but they are intuitively ready for the ethical revolution of the near future. The patriarchal or, as it is now customary to say, androcentric world around is weak and dying. The men around are cruel and stupid, and most importantly, lazy and incurious – they are stricken with impotence at all levels. They have nothing to offer in bed either. Women, even crushed by everyday life, like Anna Kotova’s Gelya, are enterprising, energetic and ready to fight for the happiness of their own and those around them. The fact that in this case happiness looks like an American passport for a child is rather an indicative detail in the overall picture.
There is probably little novelty in this design. In the end, a collection of strong screen heroines who can cope with a burning hut, a galloping horse and drunken male indifference began to be collected by the classic Soviet cinema. The great late-Soviet specialist in female images, Viktor Merezhko, I remember, even spoke in the spirit that “a woman moves the plot more easily,” because no one can predict what she will do. Today it can be fixed that “how” is no longer so important. More importantly, only women on the screen have the right to act (a man is actually not capable of it). It’s ridiculous to say that even the mass state cinema feels this – for a reason into the space send Yulia Peresild.
However, even after “Olga” and the above-mentioned “Chick”, after “Unreality”, “Kidneys”, “Ivanko” and so on and so forth “Baby Tour” finds something to surprise. The point here, most likely, is in the organics of Sigarev’s dramaturgy, which is able to combine humor on the verge of a foul with a clear social statement, which is easy to read inside an adventurous plot with fertilization and visas. The four action-packed heroines have the amazing divine power of superheroes. These are our marvel captains and wonder women. And what does our common environment make them spend this superpower on? Why do they steal eggs from their poultry farm, pour singed vodka in the apartment – for this they fight with foolish husbands? For a ticket to the USA. In our times – a super feat.
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