Vremennye trudnosti

My review will be written in opposition to all critics, as a person who is personally acquainted with parents who felt too sorry for their children, and with others (one of them is my sister) who clenched their teeth and put the child on its feet.

Forgive me those who think that the father in this film is too cruel. The real cruelty in this film was shown by society - hypocrisy and demonstrative pity for the sake of self-satisfaction.

The reality in the USSR and in our time is that people feel sorry for those who are not like them, and do NOTHING to help people adapt. In our country, there are still no conditions even for the movement of such people. The truth is that until now such people are pointed and laughed at.

If blacks were the oppressed layer of the population in the USA, then in the USSR and in Russia there is still a huge problem with the attitude towards people with special needs.

I am grateful that there is a film that shows how father and son struggle to survive in this society. In reality, most parents abandon their children and leave them in orphanages. Or another option: parents become old and die, and a child not capable of self-sufficiency and self-survival ends up in a boarding school. Trust me, it's very scary.

Film critics unanimously destroyed this film. Mother hen women cannot accept that in life, in order to achieve something, you need to literally crawl with clenched teeth. It is easier for them to close their eyes to the truth and accuse their father of cruelty, and the film of implausibility.

And in my opinion, this film is the most believable. Here you will not see ostentatious respect for a cripple simply because he is such (as it was in the film "Wonder"(2017).

Here you will see a real struggle, as it happens in life. Offense, forgiveness.

The movie is predictable. Because when people really do something and strive, they predictably win.

The acting is excellent, Ivan Okhlobystin is at his best. This is much deeper than his roles in superficial films, which critics have noted "accordingly."

Correctly in one interview someone asked the creator of this pseudo film: "How can you not be ashamed of what you have done?". One of the clearest examples of the shame of Russian cinema.

Anyone who thinks this movie is great obviously knows nothing about cerebral palsy. It's permanent. The symptoms differ from one person to another, yet they don't magically disappear over time. No amount of bears or psychological abuse can reverse the damage that's been done to the nervous system. Some (!) symptoms can be alleviated, but for the most part you have to adapt to living with them. The guy they based this movie on? The only similarity between him and his movie double is that they both have cerebral palsy; the story itself, however, is the product of screenwriters and directors.

The main problem is that the authors strongly convince the viewer that this film is based on real events (facts). It would be better if they were betting on an artistic component, another world or reality (similar to ours, but not a copy of it).

The topic of cerebral palsy is very acute and painful. And to declare in this movie that the severe stage of cerebral palsy can be corrected with the help of cruelty, the trigger of fear and overcoming - I consider it wrong and a mistake. The trace of this "mistake" spoils the overall impression of the painting and the work.

Otherwise, you can watch this movie with interest. Internal conflicts and contradictions, hero arcs (how situations change them). Family relationships, parent interactions, bullying of children, and so on.

It's a difficult topic, and watching a movie is out of the question. The film should give reason to think, if this did not happen, then the authors failed to show the theme.

A very nasty and implausible movie. He is illogical and cruel. At the same time, he justifies this violence and shows it as a way to cure an INCURABLE disease. After all this, can you call it a good movie?

Even if you don't want to believe me, FIND OUT WHAT cerebral palsy IS. Only uneducated people can call it "just a movie is not for everyone, because few people can watch it to the end." Is that what you want to believe? To believe in violence against a sick person, which is UNJUSTIFIED and UNNECESSARY?

There are very few films about disabled people in Russian cinema, now this list has been replenished with another terrible film.