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Excellent film!

posted 7 years ago by MinaVladimir (4077)
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First, great performances! The film explores fundamentalism and the ineptitude and rigidness of the educational system. The only person who tried to really understand and help Veniamin, the Biology teacher, had to go pretty much the same fundamentalist route as him (in a slightly different direction). And every step of the way, she was met by a concrete wall, and was finaly ousted (or was she?). And it's all served up in an often hilarious fashion.

My only problem is that the lines given to the teacher character, when arguing with... well lots of people, were too much like tirades, that felt like something the director/writer wanted to yell at the world himself.

Other than that, I loved the film! And I also love the title, (M)uchenik (martyr/student).

[–] peterkneter (375) 5 years ago

right, I though it was a very good Movie. I gave it a 7/10, i'd rather give it more but there were serveral points that bothered me.
-I was searching for the trigger for all his behaviour. In the first scene we see the mother asking why he did not go to the swiming class and he answeres it is because of his religious feelings and the mother thought he was joking as if he did not have religious thoughts before. So since when and why did he turn to religious fanatism? Where did he got his bible?
-then: he developes into an overconfident preacher from a silent outsider in like two weeks. That is not portraied very realistic.
-then; The End: This one supernatural moment where Grisha's ghost appears does not fit into the rest of the movie.
-It is an open end and I rather like more the closed one. Maybe the writer did not know how to make a propper ending to make it a masterpiece....