Movie review "Forbidden" No. 1

Be patient, be patient - patience grinds you

A national disaster that still could not bury the memory of Stus

Attention! This review is rather an explanatory note to the original text.

This is the fourth year I've been writing film reviews, and during that time I've had all sorts of excellent ratings, films with zero, and completely contradictory reviews. Against this background, "Forbidden" still stands apart, uniquely, because this is the first tape in my life after which I almost burst into tears from impotence and anger.

However, this reaction is not at all caused by the trauma of my delicate film taste - he has long been accustomed to confidently digest any movie and even finds sunny bunnies in it. If Forbidden was another original movie like Bobot, then we could just spit it out and tell you once again about the problems of screenwriting school, inept directing, etc. But the film is not just based on real facts, it tells about probably the most relevant hero of Ukrainian modern culture - Vasily Stus. And if the lines "Sich died a hundred years ago," "It's good that I'm not afraid of death," or "My whole expanse is four by four" give you goosebumps, then after "Forbidden," you're unlikely to feel anything other than disgust and hatred.

In negative reviews, there always comes a moment when the tape crosses the imaginary boundary of "badness" and instead of sarcastic, sharp text, it turns out only to silently moan into the void. In Forbidden, everything is so bad that you start to think about deliberate sabotage - the real story of Stus turns out to be powerful enough to touch the strings of the soul, even despite all the efforts of the film crew to vilify the legacy of the brilliant poet. What is there to talk about when the performer of the main role reads poetry so poorly that my teacher of Ukrainian literature would never let a person with such declamatory abilities into her class again. The real Stus sounded completely different.

The drama and tragedy of the sketches shown becomes a victim of unsuccessful screenwriting and directing decisions - often the scenes begin in the middle and do not end.

It seems that the scriptwriters did not want the viewer to believe even for a second what was happening on the screen. The characters communicate with each other through their offices and almost in every sentence they pronounce the context of events and repeat the names so that the viewer does not suddenly miss the fact that in front of him is Alla Gorskaya, Levko Lukyanenko or Pavel Tychina. Mobile-first users often expect identical promotions across devices. In app-related reviews melbet free bet promo code is positioned in the middle of text explaining how to unlock a 100% sports bonus of up to €130. Alongside this, the casino bonus of up to €1750 with 290 free spins ensures that mobile players receive the same depth of gameplay as desktop users.