If you only watched the beginning, you would never have imagined that the ending of the movie would be so cruel. Although the atmosphere is a bit weird, the story is told in a straight line, everything is so ordinary, the ordinary life in a powerful society, it seems that everyone is running on the established track, nothing new. The brothers meet, the younger brother is going to see the mother who lives alone, the young lover is waiting for tomorrow's trip, the young people's party is messing around... If the car stopped breaking down halfway, if the gangster didn't go to the remote place to find a drink, maybe Nothing will happen. However, tragedy is bound to happen, in such a society, in such an era, if not to the characters in the movie, but to an individual anywhere. The story takes place in the second half of 1984. At that time, Chernenko was in power in the Soviet Union. The following year, Gorbachev took power and started new thinking.
The Russian film "Coffin 200" is based on real events, reflecting such a suffocating power society, in the eve of the gradual loosening, from high pressure to anomie, in a terrifying murderous atmosphere, a group of people. destiny.
In the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviet system had been established for nearly 70 years. Stalin's decades of totalitarian rule made the Soviet Union a powerful society, and the government's control over the society was quite strong. Such a society has become a uniform society, and all social contradictions have been suppressed in the deep pool, which cannot be seen from the outside. to a ripple. Khrushchev's de-Stalinization brought a brief relaxation of Soviet society, but unfortunately it was short-lived, followed by the 18-year dull period of Brezhnev. The past 18 years seem to be peaceful, the Soviet Union seems to have entered a normal track, it seems that progress has been made in all aspects, and it is also looking forward to self-promotion internationally. Beneath the calm surface, there are turbulent undercurrents and dangers. In the later period of his rule, the world has entered a new era, China has begun to reform and open up, and it has also given some shocks to the Soviet Union. After his death in 1982, the two short-lived general secretaries who succeeded him: Andropov and Chernenko, who were in power for a total of three years. The story of the film takes place during Chernenko's administration.
The scene in the movie, we were once familiar with, was similar to the scene in China at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Deserted roads, decaying factories, deserted cities, gray sky, dirty dormitory buildings, and steep walls at home. A lifeless atmosphere. People can only get all kinds of scarce commodities through various back doors, using the relationships and power in their hands. This is the case with the university atheist professor in the movie, who is often the most popular. At the same time, there is another type of person, that is, the disgruntled farmer who always wants to build a utopian Sun City. He uses the underground black network to obtain scarce commodities, and attracts people to him to make wine by word of mouth. drink. He always had to seek the protection of the police, and it was this that led to his own murder. However, these are all abnormal channels outside the system. The normal channel is power. In such a society, officials at all levels are always at the upper end of the food chain. The rationing system allows them to enjoy their share, comfortably or reluctantly, according to their level of power.
In such a powerful society, everyone has their own way of living, the shrimp has the way of the shrimp, the crab has the way of the crab, and everyone is at peace with each other. However, the balance under this kind of power is unsustainable, and dissatisfaction is suppressed in the bottom of my heart. Once the pressure eases, the rebound will be very strong and even terrifying. 1984 happened to be such a period of weakening power. The following year, with the death of Chernenko, who was old and weak, the Soviet Union, who was also old and weak as him, would also enter its last years. The reforms that Gorbachev began the following year ended the sprawling empire a few years later and the power collapsed with it. In the movie, we can see that even in an inland industrial city like Leninsk, the wind of freedom from the outside has been gently blowing in and affecting the people at that time. Teenagers pursue fashion, party, drink, wear trendy clothes, play the role of little rebels... All this is like the situation in China in the early 1980s.
In a society with lasting power, the relaxation of power above often brings about anomie of the whole society. Everything in the past, from people's behavior to morality, was integrated into the orbit of power, into the rigid and rigid system, unified thinking, unified action, from the outside, this kind of society looks abnormal. It is as pure as today's North Korea, as well as Chinese society in the 1950s and 1960s. Such a society is a society that does not allow individuality to exist. Of course, there is zero tolerance for moral violations or crimes, and will be resolutely and iron-fisted. But once the power is weakened, the dark side considered by various powerful societies will quickly escape and take root and spread everywhere, and the moral collapse will be more thorough than other societies. , more without any bottom line, more unbearable.
But the so-called decline of national power does not mean the decline of power. The relaxation of the power of the whole country will lead to the infinite expansion of some power departments and their individual powers, especially some individuals in the public power department, who have no the constraints of superior power, and no social moral restrictions, but the power in their hands. The power is still there. They will use these powers more than ever to maximize their own interests. In "Coffin 200", that is the case with the silent and perverted cop. This policeman who looks like Putin has an expressionless face in the movie, always doing extremely cruel things calmly. He is the umbrella of the bootlegger. He takes a fancy to the drunk girl who was taken to the black winery by his friends, and without a word, he shoots and kills the laborers who are trying to stop him, which triggers the movie event. He kidnapped the girl home. He had no ability to possess her, but forced her to commit suicide with a bottle of wine. He even brought the police to the house and sat on the sidelines to watch the girl raped. After the police finished the incident, he shot her to death on the spot. girl's bed.
In his eyes, all legal norms and moral constraints no longer exist. He even despises officials higher than him, and only believes in the gun in his hand and his own power. He enjoys the feeling of God. In order to psychologically defeat the girl he was imprisoning, he took the body of the girl's boyfriend, a Soviet soldier who died in the war in Afghanistan and was brought back to his hometown for burial, out of the coffin and put it on the girl's bed to rot. In a functioning totalitarian and oppressive society, he may be a good policeman with good rules; however, in Leninsk's anomie, he is a chilling demon. In such a society, there are certainly not just one police officer like him, but the whole group. They are just as daring and unscrupulous as him. In the face of family disputes, they can openly shoot and kill those who do not obey their orders, and take them to the police station for detention and beat them up. In such a society, in the face of such a gang of villains in police uniforms, in the face of the power out of control, ordinary people are quite helpless. They have lost any legal and social protection and can only face In the face of all kinds of life-threatening threats, in the face of all kinds of horrific cruelty. It's really frightening to think about it, isn't our current society also in such a situation?
This kind of anomie society threatens not only ordinary people, but all people can't escape their fears, officials are big and small, and there is no right or no power. This is already a colosseum, and the strong and ruthless win. But who can guarantee that he will always be the stronger side? In "Coffin 200", the victim is precisely the daughter of the official. The father of the detained girl is the party secretary of the administrative district, not the direct boss of the police. Although he can use a lot of resources to find his daughter, he can only accept the fact that her daughter is missing. And although university professors have the ability to live a beautiful life, they are unable to stop the violence and let the cruel facts unfold in front of their eyes. In the end, atheist professors can only fall into the arms of God and seek refuge. Although the farm owner had a secret agreement with the police, he could live a comfortable life, but after the incident, he had to take the blame for the police and was finally sentenced to death. The secretary hired someone to shoot. The most pitiful is the girl's boyfriend, who worked for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, died in battle and became a hero, but could not be buried after death, and had to suffer humiliation. Even the policeman who seemed to be in control of everything ended up dying. In an anomie and powerful society, no one is safe, and no one knows their future destiny.
In such an anomie society, even if you want to follow the original track and live a normal life is impossible, there will always be disasters waiting for you, and there will always be terrifying bullying that comes to you, you can't escape, and no one can protect you Own. This is a boundless despair, like being in a cold hell. Of course, the common people also have their own way: change violence with violence. The wife of the desperate farm owner took a shotgun, calmly broke into the policeman's house, and killed the policeman on the spot in front of the humiliated girl and the policeman's mother in the room where the two corpses were lying in the flies. In an anomie power society, it is a very ridiculous thing to demand law and order, peace and reason. In such a society, the best way to deal with violence is violence, because it is the only language the powerful can understand.
A simple incident that left five bodies. Of course more bodies are in Afghanistan, which is what the movie's title suggests. This is the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviet Union that has been repressed for decades, staggering into a new era, and the Soviet Union before Gorbachev's reforms. This kind of situation is not unfamiliar in China, whether in the past or now, and there are even many people who are nostalgic for that kind of society. Through this real incident, the director used a sharp scalpel to ruthlessly dissect this society for you to see, so that you can clearly see how terrifying the so-called orderly society is.
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