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As Good As It Gets

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Fantastic actors deliver perfect performance under perfect directorship. This important film was impossible in Soviet Union, right until end of eighties. Even book was banned and distributed in illegal, handwritten copies. Even though Soviet Union died, questions in relationships between classes as sharp as ever. Patronising upper and ignorant, lazy, temporary empowered lower class in perpetual conflict worldwide with no answer in light. 10 out of 10...

This magnificent painting by Vladimir Bortko of printed for the first time in the Soviet Union only in 1987, early satirical novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the fantastic transformation of stray dog ​​ in a typical Soviet citizen Sharikov often show is now on television the anniversary of the October Revolution (by the way, is so-called revolution until the end 20s). And each time it is to be understood as a special treatment with a sobering effect on the revival of historical illusions and delusions (sorry that Bortko himself is now defected to the Communists, and even joined the Communist Party!). Three characters, the key to understanding the uniqueness of the moment has long expired - balls, Shvonder and Professor Preobrazhensky (in excellent, sometimes just virtuoso performance respectively Tolokonnikova Vladimir, Roman and Eugene Evstigneeva Kartseva) - can be said to have become a household figures. And thanks to them, as well as due to finely-crafted direction that does not rush to extremes, and an overlap, following commendable sense of proportion and taste, a pivotal era in the destiny of the country appeared on the screen in capacious, aphoristic form, which is not devoid of bright tragifarsovosti.A skillful operator (in black and white, but slightly virirovannoy tone) work Yuri Shaygardanova has written the historical and revolutionary fantastic anecdote in stylized retro long sunk into oblivion peace. All this suggests the adaptation of Vladimir Bortko, maybe the best version of Bulgakov's works, which corresponds exactly to the plan of the writer, significant realized by him in the ninth year of the revolution.

No words to describe this movie because it genius and fantastic! I recommend it for everybody! Must see from 10 y.o. and older. Need to read M.A.Bulgakov before. So I don't now what to write more, just cite: Despite its short size, this book has endless layers. On the surface, it is a hilariously sad story about a science experiment gone very wrong in the direction that its creator did not quite anticipate, and all the funny antics of the newly created sorta-human Sharikov. Yes, that includes obsessive and funny cat-chasing even when the dog becomes "human". On the other level, it is a cautionary warning about what happens when power falls in the hands of those who should not be allowed to yield it, and the dangers and pitfalls of the system that allows that to happen. Yes, that includes an easy step from killing cats to pointing guns at real people, and demanding sex in exchange for keeping a job, and of course the ultimate evil that was to penetrate the fabric of the years to come - writing denunciations for little else than petty personal gains.

There are people and people on this world, of which some, we must agree, are of arguable "pedigree". Like...a dog, let's say. So what is the difference between man and dog? The fact that an animal doesn't aspire to greatness? Or is it that an animal knows, more or less, its limits and man often doesn't? Debatable, but my guess would be something in this direction. And, just one more question: is it the heart or the mind that counts more?In the "natural" surroundings of the year 1924 in Russia (shortly after the Russian revolution came to an end - the war between the Reds and the Whites) a professor devoted to his science, but not obsessed by it, conducts an experiment on a dog, implanting some gland which, in effect, causes the animal to evolve into a man. It does sound a bit silly, I must say, but it's arguably a thing of evolution which one might consider. The result of the experiment is a human being which adapts amazingly well to the "simple" doctrine of the bolsheviki, while denying any intellectual rights a person might have on the world as it is. The simple man who desires philosophical concepts such as equality without being able to fully comprehend what it'd mean. In a way, this is what communism relied on and too many people relished this utopist dream.It's a satire, yes, but not to a huge extent. Don't watch the film expecting to see a phenomenal comedic act, as you definitely won't. The cast does deliver some strong performances, although not constantly and I suppose the directing went rather swell. I'd say well shot. There's not really much to say, given the strange character of the film. Maybe the subject isn't that catchy, but the movie itself has some very interesting strong points dispersed throughout the whole film. It's not Frankenstein, but you have to wonder how close it comes to being the infamous monster.