Leviathan

Eddie 2022-03-21 09:02:29

1. The grim atmosphere of the whole film feels consistent with my impression of Russia.

2. When the court in the middle two paragraphs read the judgment, I was inexplicably shocked. Such a long piece of text did not make any waves, and the people in the court were also expressionless. Mechanical things, but behind it is the collapse of the pillars of a person and a family. Indifference, powerlessness, too strong.

3. The mayor in it is more vivid. Talk to the pastor, go to his house to provoke after drinking, confront the lawyer in the office, get angry with the officials below, and finally hear the protagonist sentenced to 15 years and then add a glass of wine and the church whispered a word to his son. In such a small area, officials are basically omnipotent and control everything.

4. The protagonist's wife should have been depressed for a long time, and she didn't smile the whole time. She seduced the lawyer, she should be thinking of leaving that place. The lawyer came from Moscow. From the beginning, he took the initiative to help the protagonist fight, negotiated with officials, and finally had an affair with a friend's wife. Under the intimidation of officials, he had to leave the place. The identity of a lawyer is more likely to be an acne, and of course the power of the legal system and rules is impossible.

5. It is true that the fighting nation drinks NB, just like drinking water. Maybe it's more of a way to vent.

6. Religious things have never understood what kind of power it is in the hearts of those people. The government does not work, the law does not work, as if religion is a hypocritical force.

The bones on the seashore, the frigid wind, the collapsed house, the feeling of the end of the world.

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Leviathan quotes

  • Store clerk: What do you want, Kolya?

    Kolya: Vodka, what else?

  • Dmitriy Seleznyov: No-one is out of reach.