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Summer has slipped by quietly.
But there is a movie that is still worth coming up with.
It's like the wind of summer —
Blown, but left in the heart.
<h1>"Midsummer"</h1>
Summer
Shortlisted for this year's main competition at Cannes.
It's about a rock 'n' roll godfather in the 1980s.
Surname Cui.
But not the one you know well.
It was the lead singer of the legendary Soviet rock band KINO, Victor Choi.
How legendary is he?
Influenced four generations of Soviet/Russian influence, and even former leader Mikhail Gorbachev was a fan of him.
But the movie isn't about his legend.
It was a cool commotion before he became famous.
The plot is not complicated -
The fledgling Victor (Liu Taisheng) is introduced by a friend and is appreciated by the lead singer of a popular band, Mike (Roman Billik).
While Mike kept introducing the young man to the show.
His wife, Natalie (Irina Storchenbaum), is also gradually attracted to Choi.
The story takes place in a time of change, but skims over political topics briskly.
The relationship between the characters is a love triangle, but there is no blood at all.
The plot of "Midsummer" is enough to cover it.
But the music in it will make you reminisce a lot —
Enjoying the lazy burning of rock 'n' roll in black and white is like breaking into another era, the youth of another group of people.
"Midsummer" also breaks the conventional narrative and boldly graffiti on the picture.
When The New York New Wave's famous song "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads appears with surrealist chalk drawings, you can almost feel the drums jumping in the air.
Following the bus ride of Iki Pope's "Passenger," the godfather of punk, the streets of Leningrad in the 80s instantly turned into outer space.
Even if you're a rock brother, you'll understand why people are hooked on rock and roll.
Especially in those days —
Rock 'n' roll is the wings that break free from the trite reality.
It is a breeze stolen from the hot and dry heat.
And if you're a rock fan yourself, it's even more eye-catching.
The whole movie is a surprise easter egg hunting game -
Natalie and Choi kiss, mimicking the cover of Yoko Ono and John Lennon's last album.
This is a classic over-zebra crossing photo of the Cos Beatles.
The "Counter culture" cultural movement of the 1960s was a second wave in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
There's also David Bowie, the representative of Glam Rock, who is re-paid homage every few years.
These tributes are not in the subordination of elegance.
Rather, it is the vivid memory of director Kirill Serebrennikov.
Born in 1969, he has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and witnessed the country's transition from totalitarian to authoritarian, and his favorite thing to photograph is the rebellion of "non-mainstream".
Patting and clapping became a thorn in the eyes of the authorities.
"Midsummer" is based on rock and roll.
Bastard comrade of the Communist Youth League of the USSR
Kill me now, I'm a mean scumbag
Fart I'm not
I'm punk
The previous work, The Disciple, was a poignant satire of religious fanatics.
Teenagers use violence in the name of the Bible to eradicate heresy
He was also once inspected and taken away by the police for director Gogol's critical satire "Dead Souls".
Even a row of ballets can suddenly be cancelled on the grounds that they are "involved in a fraud case." (More voices think this is related to the gay content in the play)
After filming "Midsummer", it is not surprising that director Kirill Serebrennikov has another accident.
This time, the crime was "embezzlement."
Putin's spokesman also went out of his way to emphasize that "[the case] has nothing to do with politics."
(Well, I'll believe it first.) ）
The producer of "Midsummer" said: "We woke up and found that the director was gone. ”
At the Cannes Film Festival, the crew and his designers walked the red carpet, and Kirill Serebrennikov himself has not been released since August last year.
What's wrong with "Midsummer"?
Like the movie says —
- You're always trying to modify my song why can't we just sing it like that
- But Victor, they like nursery rhymes
They never missed the opportunity to purify the minds of their people as patriarchs.
Because of this, "Midsummer" is light and powerful.
The wandering skeletons of those rock and roll youth are not indifferent to reality.
This kind of disregard is a warm attitude towards life.
They are like fine sand that slips from between their fingers, making the fist of the powerful into a futile effort.
Who's to say that this isn't forceful?
At that time, rock music was also criticized as the voice of western reaction and degeneration.
Young people who wanted to listen to rock and roll had to smuggle records from German ports.
From East Germany to the Soviet Union, all the famous rock bands of that time were detained by the police for public performances.
In this case, the unwavering desire to sing rock and roll allowed Victor to be dropped out of school several times.
Until he entered the society, he did not mix with a diploma of the Eight Classics, and could only make a living from manual labor in the boiler room.
It was in this context that he created his masterpiece "Blood Type".
Because of his straightforward lyrics, caring for current affairs and infectious, Victor quickly became popular among young people and became a spiritual symbol of freedom and resistance.
I don't want to trample on anyone's chest
I just want to stay with you
But the stars in the sky call me on my way
I have a blood type on my cuffs
I have my military number on my cuffs
Pray for me as I rush to the battlefield
Pray for me
Don't let me stay in the wilderness
In 1990, the band KINO (Russian for movie) with him as its core held one of the biggest Soviet rock concerts in Moscow.
Shortly thereafter, 28-year-old Victor Choi died in a car accident while on vacation.
Two days later, the former Soviet Union's Komsomol Pravda commented:
Choi is a pure Rocker, his mass image is no different from his real life, he lives the way he sings.
Victor Choi is the last hero of rock and roll.
The official word is, Hero.
But things churned and the wheels turned upside down.
Who would have thought that the wind of freedom that blew through the walls 30 years ago would once again be locked up in a sealed iron house today.
Kirill Serebrennikov had a thriving summer.
I also felt its withering.
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