Morphine is adapted from an autobiographical diary, so the structure adopts a diary-style fragmentation of the whole event, with multiple plain chapters connecting the entire event. Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, hardcore political elements are left blank, and metaphors are instead refined into detail. Unionists were ridiculed at the banquet, while drug-addicted doctors vomited in the toilet.
Young doctors beg morphine for their addiction at municipal hospitals, and Jews for 45 patients in hospitals. The walking dead doctors shot and killed Jews, but the social situation was set. Eventually the doctor committed suicide, and the era of the nobility came to an end. The film is not critical, and based on the narrative alone, the doctors representing the nobility also treat a large number of people. Anna was poisoned because of "love".
The film talks about three things: practicing medicine, politics, and drug addiction, and the level of fun decreases in turn. It's absolutely great to shoot one surgery after another in the whole film. Few of the doctors' protagonists capture exactly what they're doing, and the sensational waste of doctor-family interactions is all over the place (say, when you meet a family with no money or a parent who is desperate to save their children).
This film saws the sound of cutting bones and sawing off the appearance of the real shot, cutting the throat to give a close-up shot of the throat cracked, you will definitely have respect for the healer who saved the life after watching it. Unfortunately, the director's ambition is excessive, and he has to insert the plot of the male protagonist's drug use, but from the beginning to the end, it is not convincing, and this soft and soft main line cannot support the plot.
The metaphors for politics are minimal, as if they were inserted to complete a task, but because of the exquisite arrangement of the novel, this part is actually interesting to read. The structure seems to make the feeling of a stage play, and each story must be preceded by a word card to announce the screen, which is not necessary. At the end of the film, the cinema metaphor says, "Movies are also a constant addiction."
At first, it was thought to be a traditional narrative film about doctors, expecting to show a typical and reflective image of a doctor who can reflect the light of human nature, however, the film destroys this expectation at the beginning, and the patient dies in the doctor's slightly unprofessional rescue!
Although it may be implied that this may be an accident, and the doctor will certainly exude his charm in the back, his private life, such as listening to classical music, sleeping in a large bedroom full of nobility is incompatible with this dilapidated and backward hospital. Immediately after, this unfortunate doctor accidentally contracted morphine addiction, while learning to treat patients on the spot, while injecting himself with morphine after the onset of drug addiction, the whole person became manic and crazy, indulging in wine.
During his tenure as the head of the township health, Mikhail Bulgakov became addicted to morphine in order to alleviate the pain caused by diphtheria, and finally got rid of the drug addiction with the help of his wife. Of course, Mikhail in the movie is not so lucky, sinking in one attempt after another, causing a big mistake and finally relying on death - perhaps to apologize, or to get rid of pain.
Barabanov has always liked to cram high-density music into movies since he became famous for "Brothers". The musical use of this work is also quite conspicuous, and the brisk plot has a very soviet comedy flavor, but the male and female protagonists are naked and paralyzed on the bed, and the musical use of the plot is very exciting in the confusion of discussing the morphine problem.
This has completely deviated from the traditional melodrama, out of control, the most ironic twist is that the doctor had to be hospitalized in order to alleviate the pain caused by drug addiction, became a patient, this identity transformation seems to be an allegorical treatment, until finally he took a gun to commit suicide in the laughter of the theater, which is shocking and then wonders, how does the presence of the political environment affect the personality structure of people?
The feeling is full of metaphors for the tsarist period, and the use of morphine to relieve pain is only a symptom, not a cure, only a rebound more intense, and finally only suicide to solve the pain. The doctor should be a metaphor for the aristocratic class of the time, rotten and sick inside, but blind, self-anesthetizing.
Before the morphine injection, he sat like a needle in the aristocratic environment, hiding in the servant's toilet and vomiting; after the injection, he talked and laughed freely and personably. Class stratification upstairs and downstairs is a good metaphor. The background music that sounded when the doctor gave himself an injection, I guess, must have some meaning, and perhaps this, as Russian music, also played a role similar to morphine's self-deception. Do not understand its origin, only a simple interpretation.
It has to be said that both the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation did have a set of films adapted from their own national literary works; not only about a man who was addicted to morphine by a village doctor, but also reflected the social situation in Russia at the end of world war I at the beginning of the 20th century:
The old russian aristocrats who opposed the revolution, the ignorant old country women, the paralyzed people, etc. are vividly portrayed and very fond of the handling of the ending; the soundtrack and tone are as cold as the snow-covered Smolensk; the film is really right to find Bichevin to play, and the forced calm of drug addiction is too good. I heard that acting in movies is only Bicheven's side hustle, and the drama stage is where he shines, and I am convinced after watching this.
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