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in the meantime, cinema – those that open in the world and in Russia – forced to settle for a relatively old releases. And the audience still for quite a long time will prefer the premiere on his own couch, where the popcorn and coke can be replaced with something more substantial and not so pathetic of screen time. Digital platforms are experiencing the high points, their ambitions are growing, but there is a danger of a different kind: in the absence of major new paintings in the formed crevice gushed a powerful stream of mediocrity. It is easy to get used to – to suck it up. And taken for granted – as the reality of the modern movie. Slipping criteria, no matter dries up intelligence arithmetic mean of the viewer. And returned finally James bond seem the world the same impossibly complex as Russian novelist with a difficult surname Dostoevsky.

Now our home screens flooded with films of the second and third row. They form a rich stream of comparatively inexpensive to manufacture movie, where try their hand newcomers and try to come up to the surface a hitherto little known cinematography. Place of Pervatsch is dull like the opus series, the dystopian “brave new world” by Aldous Huxley. Now come out of Scotland “Schemers” – a sample of the pen writer and Director Dave Maclean, is as energetic as it is inept. It contains many typical features of the “unfinished movie”, where a purely Amateur ambitions trying to pass for professional excellence.

At its core this film is a nostalgic Declaration of love for his native Scottish town of Dundee, where the author spent his youth on the threshold of the 80s. Tenderness the story of a successful music Manager of the band Placebo, Dave McLean about his childish ambitions and the first attempts to create in the middle of nowhere tour Agency able to bring the province as much as themselves the Iron Maidens. McLean will not give up in the irony – important paint, softening many mistakes and gives the story a certain charm. The role itself nineteen he takes a young Scottish actor Conor berry, and is the right choice. Also debutant in the movie, berry keeps almost the entire movie on his energy and that remotely smacks of insolent young Malcolm McDowell in “a Clockwork orange”. In any case, do not compare incomparable movies and talent, just remind us of those times when with about the same exteriors do a movie a fundamentally different level. Perhaps, in more skillful directorial hands, and in a more significant film berry would become the new celebrity. But, alas, the “Schemers” he alone: talking about yourself, by painting McLean all the attention to this figure and totally forget about the surrounding people, written and played on Izumi��s unattractive. Therefore, all “villains of the film” – the local gangsters and drug dealers with whom in search of sponsors contacted hero – cartoon look, and all the female characters are similar to complete indistinguishability.

In the story, the protagonist wants to sleep with beauty, but in the room invades her fiance – thug caricature from horror films, and the guy has to flee. He escaped but not for long: they found him on the football field, the bully inflicts the fatal blow breaks the opponent’s leg. With soccer, work in the factory do not want, and the hero decides to undertake the organization of concerts of British stars, starting with the Iron Maidens. That is, to do what he has no idea. Dave Maclean recalls with a smile, as they are not sold at the famous group a ticket because I forgot to do posters, who arrived as a huge trailer with equipment no one has seen, and to feed the demanding stars it was about sausages.

such a fun idea episodes and assembled the film. Where episodes do not fit together, are in the course of freeze-frames, some seams trying to mend the narration of the author review – the film gives the impression of unfinished, or at least done in a hurry. And that is quite strange: a film involving serious financial investments seem to be low-budget – repetitive location, only used the actual interiors of a music store and the city’s auditorium and the arrival of the famous group, which should end with musical apotheosis – what and go to the picture given in several newsreel footage from the wandering spotlights and the roar of the excited crowd.

Writer-Director is not limited to a Declaration of love to his Dundee – he also loves undisguised pictures of guy Ritchie, Stanley Kubrick or Danny Boyle with his “Scottish” film “Trainspotting”, carefully reproducing their techniques, style and even the soundtracks, but, of course, at the level of amateurish imitation. In other words, the film came to fame a music Manager, looks the whim of a wealthy, but professionally not too wealthy lover to try yourself in the movie, telling about yourself. As often happens in autobiographies, the author is unable to separate the essential and absenteisme from random, unnecessary, from the fact that it is interesting only to the author, but from the looks of the story of the garbage. As a result, the whole film gives the impression optional – it from a vast series of paintings such as “and it happens!”. Detailed and not too exciting final titer with the list of further achievements heroes the biography of Dave McLean only exacerbates this feeling.

But local patriotism is a great thing, and at the festival in Edinburgh “Schemers” received the audience award. The mass audience has absolutely I��but reduces criteria – whether still will be!