Oleg, a boy with a pure face, has been caught in heavy pursuit and various kinds of murders since he shot and abused his adoptive father with a gun. He is like the protagonist in a fairy tale. He has gone through hardships, but he can be killed and saved. The same is true of Joey, the gang leader. He appears as a gangster who does all kinds of evil. Because he lost the key evidence - the gun that killed the policeman, he fell into the accomplices and gangs. The double crisis of the police chase, when this guy with some conscience is finally about to be executed by his accomplices, but he is rescued by Oleg, and it turns out that he is a police undercover, good people don't die, the standard fairy tale.
However, the real protagonist of this fairy tale is Anzor, the only child in the film. Oleg looks like a child, but has a mature mind, Anzor is ugly and savage, but has a distorted childlike innocence. His only entertainment as a child was watching Westerns, obsessed with Western hero John Wayne like all children, but all he saw was a children's version cut down to only 10 minutes, and when he came to America as an adult, he found Wayne At the end of the film, he was shot by a gangster. He couldn't accept the result. He yelled at Wayne who was dying on the TV screen: "Get up!" Fighting, but in the eyes of his wife, he has the kindness of a child. He was ordered to kill the prostitute who broke the rules, but he couldn't do it at all. In turn, he paid her debts. In order to avoid the family's continued pursuit, he married The prostitute was expelled from the family.
At the end, when he was threatened by the gang to kill Oleg, he threw his pistol away and turned his back to the gangster like Wayne did, the gunshots rang out and Anzor fell slowly, blood clotting from his mouth On the ice, he said to himself with his last breath, "Get up!"
The fairy tale is shattered.
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