Two SHAMANs for “Lube”: the festive broadcast consisted of curiosities

Not much is required from a holiday TV menu. And if the holiday is of national significance, then you need to entertain the country on the weekend in the most responsible way. To both the mind and the heart, and with patriotic overtones.

On Soviet TV they understood quite clearly what to show and when. Each important date had its own set of films – and, of course, festive concerts were filmed. A similar scheme is still in effect – however, this year on National Unity Day there were some funny things on air.

What there were no problems with was the music. Shaman continues to be the highlight of any show that requires an ideologically consistent finale, and as a result, two channels showed his big concerts at once. The unity of the artist with the people, the assured mass appeal, hits and sweeping gestures were captured on many cameras, and it all probably looked elegant. Launching fireworks using a device resembling a nuclear briefcase should most likely be attributed to the overheated imagination of the directors. The fireworks died down, but the question “why did you do that?” remained. However, this has nothing to do with music.

There were no fireworks in the documentary film about the Lyube group that aired during the holidays. It also somehow didn’t work out with spectacular gestures, conversations were not very verbose and were conducted in an undertone, songs were sung in chorus, as at a home table. It’s quite difficult to blame the filmmakers for creating a large-scale film stuffed with exclusives. The result was a routine project in all respects, however, as soon as the songs began to sound, the nationality of “Lube” immediately became completely obvious. This certainly irritates some people, but there is no point in arguing in this situation. Here they are, modern songs about the Motherland.

It was more difficult with films about the Motherland. It is not so easy to single out a film in the new Russian film history that would be loved by millions and would be a striking statement on the theme of national character. I don’t really want to remember sweeping action films about our security forces and all sorts of historical series. They show the budgets, the reasons why these projects are made, they have modern technology, but in most cases there is neither the truth nor the magic that makes a film or series loved for many years.

And in such a situation, both “Brothers” turned out to be the most beloved and most popular, to which a couple of later films by Alexei Balabanov were added. The result was an impressive collection of Russian chthony, statements that cannot be called smart, but they nevertheless scattered into quotes from the sphere of gangster romance and specific jokes.

Lately, the adventures of Danila Bagrov have not looked the same as before. Here he is planning the operation “Russians don’t abandon their own in the war” to the song of the band “Okean Elzy”, which, of course, now looks very paradoxical. The famous soundtrack to “Brother-2” in our time looks like a collection of sworn enemies, where Chicherina and “Bi-2” coexist, but all these songs, of course, cannot be thrown out of the film, just as the Russian desire very accurately noted by Balabanov cannot be thrown out divide people into “ours” and “not ours” and forgive our own for anything. Both “Brothers” are filled with very dubious statements and aggression, but ideologically they are very Russian in spirit and therefore understandable to everyone. Just the perfect movie for folk festivals.

MARRIED TO A PRINCE

There has been an addition to the “Let’s Get Married” format. Among the programs where people get acquainted with far-reaching plans, “Yagodka Holiday House” looks the most politically correct, because the main characters are people over forty, who are not often remembered in romantic shows.

However, there is no shortage of young people here either: single fathers and mothers are brought to the holiday home by their children or nephews. Moreover, according to the rules of the show, it is the children who manage the adults’ dates and in every possible way influence the drama of the parents’ relationship. In general, it also turns out to be a competition to see who messes up the most: the young or the experienced?

Based on the first issues, the older audience seems to be a good choice for a romantic storyline. Ladies don’t have any excitement about finding a rich man, which is quite common among young girls. Men do not pretend to be macho men who are at a brides fair. Muted passions, combined with life experience, clearly lead to doubts or even fear of new relationships, and sometimes moms and dads look very touching.

Although everyone feels like “berries” differently. Not without a woman who, having barely introduced herself, declared that she believed in love and sex. Another lady admitted her reputation as a witch because everything in her garden grows too well. In his own way, an adult man looks funny, almost from the very beginning he expressed an acutely negative attitude towards alcohol.

Contrary to the popular belief that by the age of forty it is time to wise up, maturity does not always guarantee good manners and thoughts that are not a sin to share. Sometimes adults are even worse than children, and gray hair and wrinkles do not exclude stupid jokes and stupid confidence in one’s own rightness. But when they prepare to communicate with each other, try on festive clothes and are clearly worried, they immediately turn into defenseless people who need love, no matter how unsuccessful their previous experiences were.

There is probably something naive in the very idea of ​​starting a new romance under the guidance of your own child. It didn’t work out at the time with the active participation of parents – but maybe it will grow together if the offspring gives advice. Sincere feelings and television cameras are not the best combination, but at least the “berries” have very good intentions. And here they do not divide the inheritance and do not check the authenticity of relatives. Although on television it’s better not to renounce this.

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 29152 dated November 8, 2023

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Two SHAMANs for “Lube”