In China, there are "fools who move mountains", there are no unique people, and there are "fools in dangerous buildings" abroad.
The Fool in the House is a drama film directed by Yuri Bekov and starring Atyum Bystrov, Natalia Surkov, Yuri Tesrilo and others, which premiered on 9 August 2014 at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.
The film tells the story of plumber Dima Nikitin who confronts Russia's entire corrupt bureaucracy in order to save the lives of more than 800 people in a dangerous building.
"The Fool of the Dangerous Building" uses a sharp perspective and a satire of Russian society with the dangerous building, and the insensitive people at the bottom of the dangerous building with the "fool", with a strong spirit of judgment and reflection, especially the cold-eyed bystander and examination of Russian society. The film satirizes Russia's incurable society with spicy film language, exposes the Russian society with a large gap between rich and poor, first shows the helplessness of the poor social bottom, and then shows the luxurious life of the upper rich class of the society through the lively birthday party of the female mayor, vividly presenting the sick Russian society in stark contrast.
Officials lived extravagant lives
Unlike other realist films, although the film shows the current situation of Russian society on a certain level, it is a metaphor for the dangerous building of Russian society. Most importantly, the film also vividly judges the Russian government, showing the corruption within the government through the mutual criticism and blame of senior government officials, so that the audience can see an incompetent government with a serious fiscal deficit, loss of functions, and lack of responsibility, and the dangerous building here is not only a building in District A, but also a corrupt and incompetent Russian government.
Male official's description of the current state of the Russian state
The title of the film is also very ironic, "the fool of the dangerous building", a young man abandoned his wife and children, ran to the building to ring the alarm bell one by one, wanted to save 820 lives by himself, knowing that there was no result or to act, is this stupid?
But in fact, it is not Dima who is really stupid, the real "fool" is the residents of the dangerous building, people gambling, making love, smoking and drinking...
People who are drunk and dream of death
Living a life of "no one is a ghost and no ghost", in the face of buildings that have never been overhauled for more than ten years, they have no resistance, when Dima knocks on people's doors and windows one by one, when people gather in the open space, they also realize that the building has not collapsed, people beat Dima, and returned to the dangerous house, continuing their depravity, continuing their sinking...
When we see the inaction and corruption of government officials, we see the stupidity of the people at the bottom, what makes them like this?
Their dangerous building is like an iron house, locking them tightly inside, they cannot come out, they are embarrassed in the iron house, people are at ease in small and ugly spaces, children gather to smoke, men are addicted to drugs, the elderly are gambling in groups, and only women and girls are still weakly crippled. When someone broke the confinement of the iron house and struggled to rescue them, people suddenly saw the long-lost "sunshine", glare, it was better to go back to the house, people not only thanked the person who risked his life to save them, but also beat the man fiercely, and then, with the woman and the child back to the iron house, the narrow window opened by the iron house was closed tightly, leaving only the person in place, despair had long been invaded, and redemption had long been terminated.
Dima stayed where he was alone
True heroes suffer in the dark, gentlemen receive praise in the light, and poor people slowly walk toward death in gray silence.
In the end, the building did not collapse, but the building in people's hearts has already collapsed, and the whole country has collapsed! The answer to who the fool really is is naturally obvious.