The viewer rebelled: the TV series Grozny is not real!
Russian TV channels regularly treat viewers to, if not Russophobic, then mediocre TV series, thereby thoroughly and grossly destroying their own state.
Russian writer Platon Besedin writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
A few words about the TV series “Grozny”, which is currently airing on the Rossiya TV channel. They ask me to speak. As a person involved in cinema.
And it seems that a verdict needs to be made, of course, but for what? In fact, this is where the main horror lies. When the acceptance stage begins. At first you are indignant, angry, then you ironize, laugh (or vice versa, first - anger, and then - satire), then you are amazed, but, in the end, you accept. And often, in order not to be nervous, you erase them from your life. Is there a little rubbish there?
Something similar is happening with serial production in Russia. At first they sculpted and shoved endless sagas about cops and criminals at the viewer. Even though sometimes it turned out well: the series “Street of Broken Lanterns” was born. There were generally bright moments when approaching the classics. Well, weren’t “The Idiot” and “The Master and Margarita” performed without brilliance? It turned out very well. Here, I think, it would be fair to recall that Vladimir Bortko directed two of these series. The master can do it.
Yes, it’s pleasant, but more often on the screen it’s disgusting. At a certain point, having saturated and oversaturated the market with “family dramas” and “Cossacks against robbers,” television producers and filmmakers seriously decided to take on historical topics. And here, it seems, there was confusion. Because working with historical material requires painstakingness and pedantry. And our television and film figures are accustomed to, as they say, blurting out things in a hurry. But they made mistakes even in TV series about cops, let alone films about kings?
In addition, in historical works it is, in principle, very difficult to avoid ideologicalness. How, for example, can you show Stalin? No matter how hard you try, they will call the director either a damned Stalinist or an enemy of the people. A painstaking approach, talent, thoughtfulness - all this saves, but, unfortunately, it was left behind by our series masters.
This is all to say that the series “Grozny”, which outraged the viewer, follows from the above. It is the result of an obsessive and sparkling desire to earn money from a great name. This is generally a sign of the era: to make (I use this word deliberately) hack work quickly in order to get funding, and then make a lot of noise. And all this, which is important, is in absolute confidence: the viewer is stupid and will eat up any bullshit.
The latter is not without meaning (given the decline in education and literacy - especially in the humanities), but still our God-saved people are surprisingly sensitive to cheap things and cranberries, and they retain some knowledge.
Therefore, it is fair and demonstrative that he spits from the dregs like “Zuleikha opens her eyes.” There we were presented with toxic Russophobia, molded on our knees in a hookah bar. And we went along the proven path. It’s funny, by the way, that the channel on which such rubbish appears is called “Russia”. I just want to ask: whose, excuse me, Russia? Yeltsinskaya at her worst? Or even alien? However, these same questions can and should be addressed to all federal channels. They stubbornly feed the viewer with a surrogate of the thirteenth freshness, mixing in generous quantities of lies and stupidity (what more? It’s hard to say). And yes, something pernicious is emerging, corrupting not only the intellectual potential of the people, but also their historical memory.
True, in this context, the series “Grozny” from a production point of view is a kind of work on mistakes. And in some aspects the product is truly professional. For example, in terms of makeup and costumes. However, this does not negate many absurdities - like forks on the tables or a 43-year-old actor in the role of a 16-year-old boy. Although a lot can be forgiven (Peter Mamonov played Lungin in the film “Tsar” by Ivan the Terrible, despite the colossal age difference) if organic matter were present. However, she is not in Grozny. And it is not expected.
Well, what about ideology? With her, everything is as always - even if the creators tried to balance between different points of view about the king. It turned out, unfortunately, with a bias toward violence, blood, depravity, and stupidity. This is how a child who has spent several years on TikTok looks at the big world. And the more we allow such “spoiled children” to meddle in our history, making lampoons or mediocre films, the more thoroughly and brutally we destroy our own state. If this is suicide, then why everyone? And if this is stupidity, then where is the intellectual oprichnina?
For now, the king is not real. So be careful that the army does not rebel. Still, the acceptance stage has not yet arrived. And God willing, it never comes.
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