shipovalery
Joined Jan 2022
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The film is beautiful, it is not subject to disputes and doubts. But, the whole paradox is that it feels the highlight of THAT great and terrible time, which gave birth to a genius writer and a brilliant work. I will not hide, "Heart of a Dog" is my favorite work from all the world classics, but I can speak about the merit of the director without rose-colored glasses. As a big fan of Bulgakov, I read all of his works and was amazed when I realized that this film was made not only based on The Heart of a Dog, but also on many other stories and notes of the great master.
The symbolism of the degeneration of the Soviet project is revealed in perhaps the film's most bizarre scene: Ivan speaks to a bust of his father in what looks like an abandoned mausoleum. And if the father-conqueror-of-spaces becomes a bust of the Secretary General, a mummy...