"The Fool in Dangerous Building" is not a "foolish man"

Gretchen 2022-09-11 19:08:22

One of the most impressive long shots of this movie is Dima walking in the snow in a burgundy down jacket...

His pace was firm, without hesitation. He walked through many places. What he had to do was to tell the mayor: There is a building that is about to collapse, and there are more than 800 people in it... When he saw the mayor, the female mayor was birthday party

Dima's expression was dazed when he saw this scene, but he quickly told the female mayor the seriousness of the matter and looked like a savior. The mayor's expression is like this

But considering she's the mayor, she's got a job, so she's calling all sorts of ministers to a meeting. The content of the meeting is not about how to choose things, but about everyone's corruption and dereliction of duty

Later, I called two people to check how much "tofu scum" in the house.

Later they had a meeting together. The process of this meeting made me feel very scary, just like the protagonist's wife said: they drained the city... This city, from top to bottom, is corrupt, how can you expect to be responsible to the people. So they burned all the information that was not good for them, shied the responsibility, and killed two heads as scapegoats...

From the leaders' point of view, at first, they felt that these 800 people should be saved as much as possible, but once they felt that the matter was too serious and the consequences were too great, they could only go to the abyss of sin with everyone. They even thought, why did Dima want to find out about this, why should they let them spread these crap.

However, you must know that it was these officials who embezzled from it in the first place, so that the repairing project of the house was not done well, and it was not done well from the beginning.

Later, Dima felt that more than 800 people should be evacuated, and he even gave up leaving with his wife. But to his surprise, no one believed him, they were noisy, panicked, and more ignorant...

In anger, the people beat Dima, who curled up on the ground without struggling. This shot is particularly good. The elevation angle highlights his shrinking and powerlessness, which makes people feel sad.

At the end of the film, the director did not tell us that the building did not collapse, but we all knew that human nature had collapsed, politics had collapsed, and trust had collapsed. That's where cleverness comes in.

Why is this film called "The Fool in Dangerous Building", it seems to say that Dima is a "foolish man", but in fact, he is the only sober person, which is why most of the people in the film are dressed in gray and black clothes, only he was wearing burgundy and a hat.

He is great, although he did not succeed in the end, it does not deny that he is a hero??

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  • Dima Nikitin: We live like animals and die like animals because we are nobodies to each other.

  • Fedotov: Let the kid go. He's just a plumber.