Siberia

How so hard is becoming to find a good film now. Last light in independence cinematography is once again did not satisfy me. What special I can write about Siberia? Not too much or better to describe almost nothing. Film haven't an attractive qualities in a story, a depth of depiction in characters and dialogs. Whole runtime flows on a dramatic note, but director isn't succeed in this. A plot often have moments of losing the sense with far-fetched situations and simple talks as was in image of one Russian criminal with a start “he's a bad man”, then counts his amoral actions and finishes on chill note about he has a team of ex-spetsnaz members. Yes, in real life not only criminals, but even I saw it in many casual situations, Russians truly look as villains of B-movies and fairytales, but I willn’t write about their mentality, because many people did it before and personally more the one time I lighted this topic in articles, but even totally negative characters mustn’t be told in primitive words. I was astonished in bad side in a story about personage who was in the Gulag who formulated his imprisonment in Hollywood pattern of dialog "two kind of people". I’m very well know about soviet camps, but never read about what he said. The boring side of the plot occupied of frequencies of sex scenes. I far from these things, but in a lot of films I see when hero recalls his girlfriend/wife or who else, he always thinks about moment when he had a sex and I have a question "Do (or did) you really love (or loved) her for it?". Ray Bradbury wrote a right thing on sex scenes in his collection of essays “Zen in the Art of Writing”. Only a people who has troubles with this can write about it. Of course, inclusion of bed episodes are making for attraction of some kind of auditorium also, but I’m thinking we mustn’t deny in a lot of cases the basis of Mister Bradbury.
Siberia tries to hold in realistic tones where main hero isn’t a superhuman, but Keanu Reeves, who plays this role, before knockout by two Russian yokels fights with them as a master of arts. If director Matthew Ross wanted to make his protagonist as a simple person, he shouldn’t have used a standard fight choreography which can see in almost every American film for the last more than a decade of years. Final shootout also lost seriousness with Hollywood cowboy stance of shooting from Mosin-Nagant rifle, weapon which is using Siberian hunters on bear in this film. Officially, this weapon in active in Russian army and still practicing in modern conflicts, but I never heard about men who are hunting with it and especially on a big animal.

In one row with screenplay I put the directing which didn’t like me from clumsy intro titles. Sometimes it was with a cinematography where camera cannot catch an active image.
What’s good I can say about movie it’s about near to reality were shown Russian characteristic (only some moments were untrue.) and their strange humor if possible to call it the humor. As a man who understands Russian language, I can say Reeves try to be well in pronunciation and it's wonderful when two Russians speak on their own language and an important thing in this, they say same what are written in subtitles, because usually between saw and heard are different things. I can little pretense in pronunciations and only moment when title didn't compare with words, but in this part worked well and also I didn't find orthographic mistakes in Russian titles. Wrong move was to use Canada as Siberia. I know a lot of American films where Russia (most all of them in period of existence of the Soviet Union.) looks better than in reality. Not only in Siberia, but if you go deep and even not far from main cities you willn't find clear, not bad in design for this level and beautiful cafes and hotels in provinces, which can see in film. Those dark places never can make you an association with a comfort.