"Stay online." Ukrainian thriller about searching for the disappeared in the war is in tension to the finals
Of course, that such a format works, a strong scenario is needed - and it is in the movie, the picture keeps in tension from start to end. The focus shares the impressions of the premiere. As the author of the idea, the producer and co -author of the script Anton Skripts said at the premiere, he wrote this story in the capital, in March -April 2022, with the director and co -author of the script, Eva Strelnikova ("Return to Himself"), when in March 2022.
Co -authors - brother and sister) were constantly flying Russian missiles. As Anton's focus said: "One of the goals of the painting on a wide screen - to close the sky. Remember, then the call to the international community was constantly heard:" Close the sky of Ukraine. " tapes in production. It was shot in Kiev, Lviv, Bucha and Sweden - in this Scandinavian country was a well -known actress Kateryna Kisen, who played the mother of the Russian occupier.
But all this was only a half work - a huge amount of time took the production of visual effects - because In essence, we all perceive all the events through the monitor of the main character's laptop. The film team has also coped with the technical side of the task. The quality assessment of the Ukrainian film in the summer of 2023 in the competition program Specializes in independent cinema. The time of action is the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to the plot of Volunteer Katya (Elizabeth Zaitsev), it coordinates through the network of action of Terroborons of one of the Kiev districts. She has a brother Vitya (Alexander Rudinsky) and Uncle Tolik (Alexander Yarema). Mother (Olesya Zhurakivska) is not aware that the son and the brother are in TRO.
In addition to her relatives, Katya, knowing English perfectly, is constantly in touch with a foreign volunteer Ryan (Anton Skripets), who delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims from the occupiers to residents of Kyiv region. Katya coordination through the laptop that has recently reached her: the computer has donated one of the capital companies for the front.
Suddenly, a girl's lap is called a five -year -old Sava boy, thinking that he was contacting her father - he was an employee of the firm who sacrificed comp. Owl lost during evacuation from Bucha and now searches for parents. He was picked up by random people on the car near the road and he is now in Lviv.
The girl could not refuse the baby and began to search for her relatives, conveying through social networks, finding out the nuances of life recently still a completely happy and prosperous family of Sava. She learns that the child has been ordered by a spider-man's suit and tries to buy this order in parallel to cheer up the baby's superhero costume while the search is going on.
Soon the girl will have to face the rigid realities of the occupied territory - in Bucha at that time there were Russian troops. In parallel with the search, rocket firing of Katie's house is taking place and air alarm is regularly announced . . . Which is characteristic of watching the movie the alarm also sounded - the audience was as close as possible to what was happening on the screen.
Probably, this picture of our film craftsmen was inspired by an American movie in the format of the search "Search" (2018), where the father is looking for a laptop and social networks her missing teenage daughter. The picture caused a furore, raising $ 75 million for a budget of $ 1 million. Our authors put their history in the area of real fighting, which by definition creates a lot of dramatic situations. Pros of the movie "Leave online".
A expressive, well -arranged scenario with well -prescribed characters. The main character accounts for the main spectrum of emotions and Elizabeth Zaitsev copes well with the difficult task - to work out the flow of contradictory events that happen on the screen of Deuta. Katie's face is the main "tool" through which we perceive conflicts that happen to the characters. With such a limited visual perception, even crying and other design screen elements work.
It is difficult to believe, but even through the slow motion of the cursor director Strelnikov was able to convey many dramatic nuances - by the nature of his movement we understand all the fluctuations and difficult decisions of the main character. The high speed of changing situations does not allow the audience to be bored, they often respond to what is happening, laughter or tears. The tape has a fairly decent action: shootouts, chase. Good in their conciseness and content of dialogues.
It is impossible not to mention the character of Alexander Rudinsky - he fell in love with the entire auditorium. A desperate, easy to climb, a direct Father - the heart of this movie. His "tsar-bombs" will definitely go to the people. The picture works perfectly with a pair of sisters and brother: she is a strong -willed and rational one, he is a impulse brawler, but the character is solid.
Katyni filled with tears eyes like symbolizing Ukraine, which has been in trouble, and a red whirlwind with her charming smile and courageous dimples on his cheeks embodies our Cossacks who pull out their homeland from this disaster. Minuses. The painting has few drawbacks. The first is the stamps that jump in some places. For example: Mom of the heroine, who is always worried.
Olesya Zhurakivska is organically playing, but her heroine could do something else but worry? Just like the first mother of the Russian occupier - performed by Catherine Degot - also a rather standard type of victim of Russian propaganda. However, it is balanced in contrast by another mother of the Russian occupier - a soldier Gavrilov. Actress Irina Tamim issued an incomparable scene here, and her replicas caused a tumultuous reaction of the hall. The authors beautifully balanced these moms.
The second drawback is the excessive number of casualties among positive characters. Especially the death of one important, in my opinion, the hero. Yes - the number one task in the ribbon is to find the boy's parents. But there is one more thing - to drive from the Ukrainian land of the invaders. This character, becoming a superhero, should not only perform the first task, but in a new quality to give a thread of hope to the viewer that the fight against the enemy will be effectively continued.
It really happened - the enemy was rejected from these places. Moreover, all so much crying in the hall, another death did not decide anything, but, on the contrary, took the military thriller into the range of melodrama. Why? Do you then take into account the original purpose of the authors, to make the event "close the sky above Ukraine" faster. However, a very worthy picture was published in any schedule that keeps the audience until the finals.