The film "The Day of the Fool". Reviews, reviews

The Russian film "Fool's Day" (reviews called his free interpretation of Gogol's "Inspector") turned out to be a comical comedy with a moralizing instructive meaning. The general producer of the film, Timur Bekmambetov, is quite well known to a wide film audience on domestic films: "The irony of fate. Continuation "and a fantastic action movie" Black Lightning ". It was he who managed to attract the scene of professional stellar masters of the scene: Alexander Lykov (dashing "Streets of Broken Lights", the legendary "Turkish Gambit") and Alexander Vorobyov ("The Courier from" Paradise "," Disappeared ").

Plot

Almost all reviews, reviews of the film "The Day of the Fool" contain a brief description of the plot. According to him, the main character Ivan (Alexei Veselkin, Jr.), who holds the position of doorman, has more than a modest income. Therefore, the young man has managed to owe a bank a decent amount, and one day on his soul is a demanding collector named Sergei (Alexander Lykov). In order to avoid physical punishment, the hero comes up with a rich father, who does not have to pay off his son's debt. The collector, not believing the guy on the floor, requires a personal acquaintance with his father, so the characters of the film go on a distant car journey. By chance, fellow travelers get to the provincial town of Upper Sapozhok, where they come into conflict with representatives of law enforcement agencies and find themselves in the police. And then the movie "Fool's Day" (testimonies to that proof) ceases to be languid. Since at this very time the thoroughly corrupt Mayor of the town of Makhov (Alexander Vorobiev) through his channels learns that the inspectors from Moscow are going to Upper Sapozhok, who are preparing the material for the forthcoming investigation. And since there are no other visitors, except for the unfortunate Sergei and Ivan, they, naturally, are mistaken for Moscow inspectors.

The secret of the success of the movie "Fool's Day"

Reviews of the film emphasize that his success is that the director-creator Alexander Baranov simply brilliantly manages to construct the most absurd scenes, generated by Gogol's plot and adapted to our chaotic modernity. However, the creative tandem of the director and scriptwriters does not rely only on the classic jokes of the writer. And does not try to transfer to the cinema of the 21st century the obsolete details of the narrative, which are obsolete and not understandable to the contemporary. The authors fundamentally carry a funny gag, but in terms of satire and humor, it turns out to be if not at a high level of immortal comedy, then certainly at the level of paintings that you want to review repeatedly. So the comedy "Fool's Day" was appreciated by the buyers of the discs that bought this film for this purpose.

Claims

Leading domestic film critics, on the whole giving the film a positive assessment, could not resist the claims against the director and the ensemble. Most watchers note the fact that the romantic line of the picture is crumpled, and therefore - unconvincing. Therefore, the film "Fool's Day" (reviews of the film are full of comments on this score) can not be called a romantic comedy. It is very problematic to imagine the erratic and wayward daughter of the mayor (Antonina Divina) capable of literally from the second glance fall in love with a guy who demands that she be given to him as a wife. Lykov and spectators and sophisticated connoisseurs praise to the skies, but Alexander Vorobyov is called unconvincing in the role of the host of the town. He masterfully implements himself in some comedic episodes, but he terribly lacks the scope and pathos for those fragments in which Makhov is positioned as a tragic character. Well, he does not pull on the main urban tyrant. Therefore, the film "Fool's Day", the reviews of which are extremely contradictory, can not compete with the literary prototype.

A ridiculous epilogue

Immediately it is worth noting that the creators of the film frankly failed the epilogue, the match with the dumb Gogol scene was catastrophically lost. But the fact that the film "Fool's Day" (reviews of critics and viewers are unanimous in opinion) turned out to be ridiculous, and most importantly, with a cautionary meaning - it is difficult to deny. In it, the main character, such a modern modified Khlestakov, not only experienced all the "delights" of corruption on his own skin, but also made the right conclusions. And this can not but rejoice.