Goliaf

Crime story that takes place in a deserted, sunny village in Kazakhstan inhabited only by men (hardly any women are seen), where a story of power and revenge unfolds. Slow film, dull characters, poorly and confusingly told story, tries to be a Western but fails and tries to ennoble itself with quotes from the famous 16th-century Italian treatise "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli, to show that while the powerful can be tyrants, the subjects can also use cunning to oust and kill them. It totally lacks the pace that the western genre requires, and the slowness of the narrative, which to the can also be a virtue, here is definitely a flaw. The result in the end is a sluggish western that tries to be a discourse on power and revenge but only partially achieves its goals. Film strongly discouraged.