"Correction class": reviews. Film "Correction Class": Reviews

A tough, realistic drama from the life of disabled adolescents, "The Class of Correction", whose reviews are categorically ambiguous, clearly demonstrates not only the horrors of modern society, but also many terrible social ulcers of the growing adolescent world.

The brightest "opening" of "Kinotavr"

Leaving in the recent past bored realism, "Kinotavr" boldly moved to experiments on the uneven system of the audience, to unsightly naturalism. The most "loud" were the premieres of M. Segal "Cinema about Alekseyev" and I. Tverdovsky "Class correction", reviews about both films are similar - both works have a similar design, techniques and habits. They, for all their documentary and acute social character, with enviable dexterity, reduce the realities to grotesque tragicomic comics, ideally using dramaturgy to achieve peak emotional effect.

From the working notes of the psychologist to the youth horror

"Correction class" is a film based on the story of Ekaterina Murashova, a family psychologist who created the work based on her rich real experience. If you position the paintings as a social horror, it becomes clear why the picture is "stuffed" with shock episodes. After all, the genre itself has to exploit spectator emotions and frank manipulation of the beholder. Confirmation of this statement is the cinematic technique used by the author - the "swing principle" - every episode of humiliation, violence, brutality and oppression is immediately followed by a "comic relief".

The atmosphere of general shame

The film "Correction Class", reviews about which are diametrically opposed, intelligibly and accurately conveys the atmosphere of all-consuming shame that reigns in a repressive civilization, when even the very existence of an individual becomes obscene. And to enhance the effect, the creators deliberately saturate the timekeeping with "killer" shots: children in the pursuit of adrenaline go under the train, the crazy cretin in love dances from the wheelchair of the subject of his sighs, caressing it. The unfortunate wheelchair, in order to seduce a peer, puts on stockings on the paralyzed legs, the dwarf performs mischievously the dance of "Little Ducklings." Classmates amicably cover the porridge with the image of a child who was recently killed. And this is not all.

Enjoying the power over the viewer

"Class correction" - the film-debut of the son of the famous documentary director of the 24-year-old Ivan Tverdovsky. This is the first full-length work of a promising young man caused a real resonance among cinephiles, starting as a standard social soul-chilling "chernukha" as a result reached the level of the domestic film classics like "Scarecrow". It is recommended to watch the "Correction Class" in cinemas, it is from a large screen that you can fully enjoy the vitality of the film project. When viewing, it seems that the director obviously enjoys the opportunity to keep the viewer not in a constant provocative tension, but on a short leash. The young creator does everything in the frame that he likes, and such a frank, slightly cynical reception (which is an exceptional rarity for the post-Soviet cinema) in this case works. Taking into account the fact that before this picture the director was making his own short films like "The Dog's High", the film "The Class of Correction", critics' testimonies to that, was close to the works of Lars von Trier ("Dogville", "Dissecting the Waves", "Dancing in the Dark "," Idiots "), and this is the highest compliment. And I am glad that Ivan did not shoot his work in the fashionable genre of mokyumentari (although he was going to), realism in the material is more than enough.

Storyline as a provocation

The film "Correction Class", the release date of which is designated September 25, 2014, has a straightforward plot. In the correctional specialized class with home teaching, Lena (Maria Poezhaeva) is translated, which instantly becomes the mind and heart of a separate outsider company, the center of attraction. Two young people - Anton (Philip Avdeev) and Misha (Nikita Kukushkin) simultaneously fall in love with the new one. And Lena, who is like a ray of light in utter darkness, assimilating, continues to face the animosity of children and adults. The director sharp, clear lines outlines the love triangle and images of the adult world, in which ignorance is not inferior to aggression. The director of the school, performed by Natalia Domeretskaya, behaves at times incorrectly at least towards pupils, parents and all those around her. Students are also far from being a gift, especially those who are trained in "normal" classes, they are so far from humanism that they do not just let go of stupid remarks, but also take pictures of the unfortunate wheelchair on the phone. Here, on such a burning ground, "love-story" blossoms, as if it came from a European art house movie. By the way, information for those who want to enjoy watching the movie "Correction Class" alone, the date for DVD release is October 28, 2014.

Actors and roles

It is worth noting, the characters in I. Tverdovsky - real burned romance for all its marginal design. The cast is made up of two generations: the young shoots by Nikita Kukushkin, Maria Poezhaeva and Philip Avdeev and mature professionals Natalia Pavlenko, Olga Lapshina and Natalia Domeretskaya. Many fans of these actors wandered in search of an answer to the question: "Where can I see the" correction class "? But after the release on DVD, it became irrelevant. By the way, "young growth" - all as one guys-actors from the "Seventh studio" (head K. Serebrennikov). Unsurpassed in the film are: in courage and tenderness - Poezzhaeva, in care and gentleness - Avdeev, in a contradictory combination of vulnerability and aggression - Kukushkin. These young talents perfectly fit into the director's plan, where yesterday graduates of the theater university Yu. Serina and A. Markaryan are equally active. She experienced the delights of the correction class of M. Uryadov and the acting actresses I. Vilkov and E. Nesterov.

Hard moralism

"Class correction", reviews claim unanimously - it's crying, in perfection - sobs. The creators so well grasp the contradictory moments of teenage variability, the influence of circumstances, external factors, the collective on the traumatized (especially in this case) youthful psyche, that you simply admire their skill. As it is to be young, it's easy - that's the question of paramount importance. The majority of people around, sadly, lack compassion and humanism - it's just a chic background for the development of the history of the tender love of two sincere hearts, and the cinematic reception "mobile camera" - as the only right way to force the viewer not only to believe what is happening on the screen, but to pass through Yourself, feel the skin. That's why it's worth watching "Correction Class" in cinemas, where special acoustics and special perception.

Rarity in the domestic cinema

This film project can safely be called a serious movie for teenagers and children of senior school age, which we note - a rarity for the domestic cinema. Proof of this mass: Renata Davletyarov's excellent work "Steel Butterfly" went virtually unnoticed. A barely noticeable resonance was caused by Dmitry Astrakhan's film "Detochki", of course against this background, "Class correction" (reviews are measured in hundreds) can be considered a significant event. And in this, apart from the director, there is merit and operator of Fedor Struchov, who stubbornly removed sometimes simply disgusting, repulsive scenario "present". The camera as if specially gives the viewer to see absolutely all the abomination that the heroes of the picture do. And these unsightly scenes tear the shaky border between the public and the screen.

The verdict is not subject to appeal

The Russian cinema elite, leading critics differed in the film's ratings, and their assessments and interpretations are diametrically opposed (which at the same time both alarms and intrigues). Some firmly believe that this is the "flagship of a new wave" of Russian cinema, a masterpiece of the 21st century, a real first-rate realism, a cry of teenage despair. The latter consider the picture a continuous grotesque, a postmodern trick, its own universe and an attempt to exit a promising provocateur Tverdovsky to the level of von Trier and Balabanov. In any case, the viewer should pay attention to the fact that the final of the picture "Correction Class" is very vague, when the sequel will be released and it will be released, but there are prerequisites for this.