Nikitin is an ordinary plumber, and the reason why he can be the protagonist of this film is because he is a rare breed, a good person.
But the film only revolves around two nouns, the dangerous building and the foolish man, and there are no good people.
At the beginning of the film, a dilapidated building appeared in front of the audience. The building was filled with people from the lower classes, and the noise was constant. A man named Kao Ya abused his family because of the loss of money, and accidentally caused a hot water pipe. The explosion, Dima (nicknamed Nikitin) and two repairmen went to check and found that there was a crack in Kaoya's bathroom. He suddenly felt that something was wrong and ran downstairs quickly. A huge crack extends from the bottom of the building to the top of the building, and the foundation is displaced, and the whole building begins to tilt. According to Fedotov, the director of housing management, the building was built in a hurry. It was built on unstable foundations. It has been built twice in the past 38 years, but they were all perfunctory. No real overhaul. This is the dangerous building in the film's surface sense.
When Dima reported the situation of the dangerous building to the female mayor Nina, Nina and all the ministers were unbelievable. First of all, they were still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the birthday party, immersed in the years of squeezing oil and water without appearing Among the great blunders, secondly, he didn't take a nameless guy like Dima seriously, thinking that his words were not of reference value, he might just be a lunatic. These people couldn't sit still when Dima strongly confirmed his conclusions with the expertise he had learned. According to Dima's speculation, the dangerous building will collapse within 24 hours, and the resettlement of the 820 people living in it has become a big problem. This town simply cannot provide extra housing. Should these residents be allowed to sleep on the street? Helpless ministers start blaming each other, but everyone knows that none of them can get away with it, their ass is covered in shit. The female mayor's emotions were also out of control. She confessed that she was indeed embezzling, but she also had to deal with it, she also had to live, and she had to support her family and children. The ecology of officialdom was like this, what could she do? She started to count the ministers who were seated, the health minister stole all the supplies, half of the equipment was sold, the police chief turned the police station into a gangland, the fire minister sat there all day signing papers, but the city hasn't had a fire in ten years, The government is still allocating funds to buy firefighting facilities, and what is Fedotov, the director of housing management, doing? Tofu dregs project. She also said that when it comes to "corruption" there is no end, the whole country lives in bribery and you can't do anything without money. According to the data provided by the secretary, the deficit of the government maintenance budget has reached 120 million, and the resettlement of these residents needs 260 million. Where does this money come from, Nina is close to collapse. Nina decided to ask Safonov for help, but these people were all "flying on their own when the catastrophe was imminent" and had no feelings at all. This is a dangerous building in the deep sense of the film, a dangerous building in the officialdom.
The bald head beside Nina was also said by the person who promoted Nina at the beginning. This sentence is worth remembering. It wiped out the little conscience these people still have as human beings. He said, when did you start caring about it? the people? Because 800 of them could die at once, one by one? You take your share from every item in the budget, the roads are built like shit, there are holes and bumps everywhere, accidents happen every day, people drink and kill each other because there is no decent job and the pay is not as good Beggars, children waste their lives growing up in basements, schools are in chaos, teachers and doctors are starving to death, and the elderly and disabled are better than the dead. He also said that if it were distributed equally, no one would get anything and everyone would be equally poor.
I admit that this bald head is right, but his reasoning is based on the ruthless tearing of the people. It is precisely because of the existence of people like him that the entire team of officials is united, intrigued, inhumane, and more than 800 lives. In their eyes, it was no different from a dog. In the end, he decided to hide everything, let the dangerous building continue to be in danger, and made the director of housing management and the fire minister a scapegoat.
The dangerous building will collapse, but no one knows the people in the dangerous building. The reason is that the government is unable to resettle them, and they have all the money. If the dangerous building collapses and the people living in it die, these spectators are the murderers, but they don't care. , they even said that the people who died were idiots who had nothing to worry about.
When the director of housing management, Fedotov, was inspecting the dangerous building, he encountered some people in the dangerous building, and he expressed his disgust attitude more than once. These people need to fix their brains, not the tubes, he said. He also said that the people living there are rubbish, trash, and damned people. Judging from the residents of the dilapidated buildings captured in the film, Fedotov's views are not unreasonable, and his views also represent the views of almost all government officials. The character Kao Ya, who appeared at the beginning of the film, is a typical waste wood. He is shirtless and beats his wife and daughter violently. Just at a glance, he can tell that he has been dealing with alcohol and drugs all year round. These people who play cards are sick and completely broken. Just when Kaoya asked his wife for money, there was a quarrel between a husband and wife in another room. That man is not a good guy. He only knows how to sit on the sofa all day. While watching TV in the middle of the night, in the aisle in the middle of the night, a group of gangsters leaned against the wall, looking like they were about to die, smoking and taking drugs and sabotaged. These people make up the most intuitive conceptual fools in the movie.
The film also presents another type of people who have not given up on themselves, but have been corrupted in their concepts and consciousness. They cannot distinguish between right and wrong, their behavioral tendencies are determined by others, and they lack autonomy. This type of people cannot escape. Get out of the category of fools. Such as Dima's mother, Dima's wife Martha, and even later Dima's father Ivan. Mother asked Dima to buy Ivan Love's garage. Dima didn't make a statement, so mother was very angry, saying that their father and son were two fools carved out of the same mold. Said Ivan always said that we don't need things that don't belong to us, but nothing ever belongs to us, others are taking things for themselves, Ivan never takes it, and now Dima too. Thus, a good family dinner was completely ruined by the unpleasant scolding. The mother's original intention of thinking of the whole family may be understandable, but is it advisable to commit theft against morality? The answer speaks for itself. My mother's point of view is that everyone steals. If they don't steal, they are stupid and backward. This is also a manifestation of lack of self-consciousness and ignorance. To give a simple example, an old man fell, and all the passers-by looked at him and did not help him. He asked one of them why he did not help him, and the answer was that no one helped him, so why should I help him? The meaning of mother's encouragement of opportunism is the same, everyone steals, why don't I steal?
Dima's wife, Martha, may have been influenced by her mother, or by the influence of society as a whole, and her views are roughly the same. Before the dinner scene, Masha told Dima to learn to bribe, but Dima pretended not to hear it. During the meal, when she saw her mother get angry, Masha didn't say a word. It was estimated that her mother had spoken her heart. . Dima got up in the middle of the night to look for the female mayor. Martha was very angry, and then Dima hurried home and said that she was going to run with his wife and children, but stopped halfway. Dima was still worried about the residents in the dangerous building. Sha is completely out of control, she said, you should think about me and Anton, the people in the building have nothing to do with you, this mess is caused by those who stole, you try to persuade in vain, to us they are nothing . This statement angered Dima because she had contempt for life, obvious egoism, no humanity, no compassion, Dima said, they live like animals and die like animals because we are insignificant to each other.
In the whole family, only the father Ivan is on the side of the son. The reason why Dima has formed such three views has to be said that it comes from the positive influence of his father. Ivan lived for 60 years, and when he saw others stealing pipes, he said that it did not belong to us. When the light bulb was stolen, he replaced it privately. When the bench downstairs was broken, he took the initiative to repair it. Such an honest attitude. Because of this, the mother was quite dissatisfied, scolding him for not being promising, and failing to teach his son well, resulting in a bleak future for the family. As a result, Ivan's heart was shaken. He was really useless in his life. He had no friends or enemies. People avoided him like a plague. He felt that he had done something wrong, so in the end Dima chose to save those in the dilapidated building. When he was a man, he hesitated, and he had to compromise with reality. He said that the world has never changed, which means that Dima can't change all this.
As a result, Dima became the only person in the film who still maintained his integrity, the only good person, and the only person who drew a line with the fool.
But in the eyes of all fools, he is the real fool. His mother scolded him, his wife scolded him, even his father began to question his behavior, Fedotov said, are you from another planet or somewhere? Dima was completely isolated, and it was unbelievable that people like him existed. At the end of the film, this disbelief reached a climax. When all the people in the dangerous building gathered downstairs, and the dangerous building did not collapse, Kaoya pulled Dima and said, "This is our hero, he is real." He is so brave, and seeing how many people he has saved, there are still decent people in this world. The remark was clearly sarcastic, meaning that the fool had lied to us, and Kao Adam punched Dima first, and then a mob swarmed up, punching and kicking. At the end of the film, Dima curled up on the ground, dressed in red, which was very eye-catching.
It is worth mentioning that the ending song of the film comes from a song "Quiet Night" by Victor Choi, the father of rock and roll in the former Soviet Union in 1989. His voice cut through the night sky, "Those who lay down to sleep, I wish you good night, the night is so quiet." This song also appeared once in the film. When Dima ran on the way to the female mayor's birthday banquet with a heart to save the people, the music sounded. Unlike the end of the film, the music at that time gave people the feeling It is full of hope. The same music sounds at the end of the film, but only loneliness is left to the world.
The end of the film is open-ended, we didn't see the building collapse, but we knew the building would collapse, and the people buried in the rubble might regret it, but so what? They may have died, or are on the way to death, the dangerous building is about to collapse, what is the fool?
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