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International Journal of Media and Information Literacy
Internationa] Journal of Media and Information Literacy
Has been issued since 2016. E-ISSN: 2500-106X 2017, 2(1): 9-15
DOI: 10.13187/ijmil.2017.1.9 www. ej oumal4 6.com
Leviathan and Sunstroke: Opinions of the Russian Film Critics
Alexander Fedorov a , *
a Rostov State University of Economics, Russian Federation
Abstract
Modern media criticism as a whole based on the hermeneutic approach to the analysis of the media and media products relying on such key concepts as media agencies, media / media text categories, media technologies, media languages, media representations and media audiences, because they all have a direct bearing on the ideological market and structural and substantive aspects of the analysis of media and media texts. It is interesting to see how these approaches are implemented in concrete works of Russian film criticism concerning, for example, the two most controversial films of the last seasons: Sunstroke (2014) by Nikita Mikhalkov and Leviathan (2014) by Andrei Zvyagintsev.
The key questions of Sunstroke are: What kind of Russia we lost? How and why it happened? And the key questions of Leviathan are: What kind of Russia we gained? And why is this? The author of this article analyzed around 60 reviews of Russian critics' community (mainly of the leading, most active and visible). They were (very) roughly divided into two groups: texts from the authors of liberal wing, and texts from the authors of the conservative wing.
The main conclusion: Leviathan and Sunstroke, in fact, has become an indicator of the political stratification of Russian film criticism: in many cases, films were analyzed, first of all, not as a works of art, but as social and ideological messages. However, this is not surprising, because of the bundle of Russian film critics' community. However, the Russian mass audience as a whole is much more conservative than media criticism community. And, of course which is more focused on entertainment component of media culture (and the lack of interest of the vast audience in serious problems eloquently showed modest box-offices of Leviathan and Sunstroke).
Keywords: film criticism, media criticism, Russia, cinema, movie, film, Leviathan, Sunstroke.
1. Introduction
Modern media criticism as a whole based on the hermeneutic approach to the analysis of the media and media products (Bazalgette, 1995; Fedorov, 2010; 2012; Eco, 2005: 209; Silverblatt, 2001: 80-81) relying on such key concepts as media agencies, media/media text categories, media technologies, media languages, media representations and media audiences, because they all have a direct bearing on the ideological market and structural and substantive aspects of the analysis of media and media texts (Eco, 2005: 209).
* Corresponding author
E-mail addresses: mediashkola@rambler.ru (A. Fedorov)
I think interesting to see how these approaches are implemented in concrete works of Russian film criticism concerning, for example, the two most controversial films of the last seasons: Sunstroke (2014) by Nikita Mikhalkov and Leviathan (2014) by Andrei Zvyagintsev.
The key questions of Sunstroke are: What kind of Russia we lost? How, and why it happened? And the key questions of Leviathan are: What kind of Russia we gained? And why is this?
2. Materials and methods
The main sources for writing this article became the materials of the journal and Internet publications. The study used the basic methods: the problem and situational, systemic and the comparative method. The use of these methods allows to reproduce assessment approach to the problem of the film studies. Comparative method defines the difference in views on actual Russian film criticism situation. I analyzed around 60 reviews of Russian critics' community (mainly of the leading, most active and visible). They were (very) roughly divided into two groups: texts from the authors of liberal wing, and texts from the authors of the conservative wing.
3. Discussion
Opinions of critics' community about ideology in the sociocultural context (how the media text reflects, reinforces, inspire, or generates the values, behaviors, attitudes, concerns, myths).
The dominant concepts are: media agency, media representation, media audience)
Most rigid Russian film critics of in the liberal wing noted with pleasure the Leviathan's total pessimism view of contemporary Russia (Matizen, 2015; Tyrkin, 2015). But some liberal film critics believed that, despite all pessimism, Leviathan gave the audience positive catharsis (Pavluchik, 2015; Dolin, 2014). A significant part of film critics positively celebrated the Leviathan's clear anticlerical pathos (Gireiev, 2015).
However, thoughtful expert opinion leads to a much more profound interpretation of Leviathan in the social and cultural context (Shemyakin, 2015; Solntseva, 2015; Stishova 2014). For example: "Attempts back to the late Medieval and restore the inviolable union of church and state secularism (in the name of social and political stability) inevitably revive the anticlerical of thinking part of the social organism" (Razlogov, 2014).
And from there it spreads the bridge to the main topic of Leviathan: personal responsibility of each of us for "what Russia we gained" (Ivanov, 2015; Plakhov, 2015).
But it would be a significant exaggeration to say that the Leviathan has received full and unconditional support of the Russian film criticism liberal wing. On the one hand, some critics saw (rightly, for my opinion) the Leviathan's overlaps (Malukova, 2014). On the other hand, the authors of Leviathan received the reproaches in the aesthetic varnishing of reality and the straightness of the critical promise (Zelvenskii, 2015; Maslova, 2015). M. Bezruk accused the Leviathan of speculation and opportunism (Bezruk, 2015). And even, perhaps, the most famous among liberal media critics' community (and not only) - Dmitry Bykov, blames the Leviathan in the secondary and the inner emptiness (Bykov, 2015).
Russian film criticism of the conservative wing, unlike the Liberals, could not forgive the Leviathan anticlerical attacks: (Yampolskaya, 2015). Sophisticated connoisseurs of world cinema does not miss an opportunity to sneer at the author's ambitions of A. Zvyagintsev (Trofimenkov, 2015). Moreover, as liberals, conservative critics, also criticized the film's political opportunism (Moskvina, 2015).
Naturally, that liberal film critics (who have long been hostile to director Nikina Mikhalkov) expressed a negative opinion about Sunstroke. Among the most common words used in reviews as guilty: propaganda, banality, nationalist, anti-Darwinist, monarchist, etc. (Bezruk, 2014; Gladilschikov, 2014; Plakhov 2014; Solntseva, 2014).
One of the leading arguments against the Sunstroke author's concept became a liberal reproach to Nikita Mikhalkov that he supported "red communists" in his films of the 1970s, and now he supports "whites and monarchy", but always - "God-given" power (Bykov, 2014; Kichin, 2014; Matezen, 2014; Pavluchik 2014). However, some film critics wrote that they are bored to assess the ideology and philosophy of the authors of Sunstroke, since they do not see any artistic merit in this movie (Zelvensky, 2014).
As a result, it seems, the only discordant note has become in the consolidated opinion of the liberal film criticism: A. Dolin's replica: "Words "Three hours of emptiness" and "What for?" talk
about the inability to elemental analysis, sorry. The essence of the Sunstroke is simple and transparent, it is stated in two words: Russian Titanic. Fleeting love story on a ship and shipwreck in the final, which means deluge, end of the world, and the punishment for sin. The one-piece structure and distinct idea, which is difficult to argue"(Dolin, 2014).
Admirers of N. Mikhalkov's movies from the ranks of the conservative film criticism use the complimentary words and phrases in relation to the Sunstroke: perfect, great, bog cinema event, talent, artist, etc. (Danilova, 2014; Moskvina, 2014; Omecinskaya 2014; Surikov, 2014; Vladimirov, 2014; Yampolskaya, 2014).
Further, in response to many of the cited above reproach liberals, film criticism of the conservative wing confidently argue that Sunstroke is not propaganda, but a complex and multivalued work of art (Rutkovsky, 2014; Tolkunova, 2014).
Opinions of film critics' community about the market conditions that contributed to the process of creating a media text (the dominant concepts: media agency, media technology, media
audience, media / media texts category)
In general, film criticism of the liberal wing (simultaneously arguing with the conservative part of the audience) agree that Leviathan due to socio-critical orientation was in the center of the political debate in media (Belikov, 2015; Bogomolov, 2015; Malukov, 2015; Pavluchik, 2015; Plakhov, 2015).
Some critics have tried to uncover the reasons why the film was non-adequately received by the West: "West Europe did not understand the main thing: that the Leviathan is not just a story about a creepy private injustice, but also a political statement about the nature of modern Russia" (Gladilschikov, 2015).
As for the most consistent opponents of Leviathan, they angered state financial support for the film, which have so radically critical position to donor (Yampolskaya, 2015).
Film criticism of the liberal wing noted with satisfaction the low box office of very expensive Sunstroke (budget: $ 21 million, box-office: $ 1.7 million, https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/586308 /box/) against much less budget of Leviathan (budget: $ 3,7 million, box-office: $ 2.5 million, https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/705356/) (Bezruk, 2014).
Curiously, the film criticism of the conservative wing is not as primitive as it seems, for example, Y. Bogomolov (Bogomolov, 2014). They ironically notice that their liberal colleagues have the real "herd instinct" against the Sunstroke (Omecinskaya 2014).
Opinions film critics' community about the characters of media texts, their values, ideas,
behavior, appearance, vocabulary, facial expressions, gestures, degree of stereotyping (the dominant concepts: media representation, media / media text category, media technology,
media audience).
Film criticism of the liberal wing did not stint on the praise for the entire ensemble cast in Leviathan (Dolin, 2014; Kuvshinov 2014; Malukov, 2015; Plakhov 2014). For some reason they do not notice a distinct secondary actors' images created in the Leviathan: the works of the actress E. Liadova (she recently played a similar role in the movie The Geographer Drank His Globe Away), actor A. Serebryakov (he played a lot of these fierce and nervous men over the past 20 years) and actor R. Madyanov (in his collection also a lot of similar nasty characters).
But some film critics accurately noticed that almost all the characters in Leviathan flawed, and not all may evoke viewers' sympathy (Razlogov 2014; Kudryavtsev, 2015) and pay attention to the ambivalence of these characters, even the most, seems to be negative (Ivanov, 2015).
Film criticism of the conservative wing immediately recovered the secondary image of the Leviathan's characters (Razlogova, 2014). The film also received accusations of improbability: in the nature of the character, and in their everyday life (Trofimenkov, 2015; Yampolskaya, 2015).
Although I can say that the film critics of the all "wings" are often jointly note that almost without exception, the Leviathan's characters do not cause any sympathy (Moskvina, 2015).
Yes, liberal criticism relates enthusiastically to the cast of Leviathan, but their relation to the actors and the characters of Sunstroke was ironical and negative (Bezruk 2014; Kichin, 2014; Matizen, 2014).
Of course, the views of the film criticism conservative wing about the characters and the actors of Sunstroke was differ from liberal. Acting rated as brilliant, successful, wonderful, excellent, etc. (Haknazarov, 2014; Moskvina, 2014; Omecinskaya, 2014; Rutkovsky, 2014; Tolkunova, 2014).
E. Yampolskaya makes in the course of analysis of Sunstroke's characters the conclusion: we must to rise above the fray of red and white, because no heroes in the civil wars, all people are the victims (Yampolskaya, 2015).
Opinions of film critics' community on the structure and narrative techniques in a media text (the dominant concepts: category of media / media texts, media technology, media language, media
representation)
The main figure responsible for the structure and narrative techniques in the film is director, and Russian film critics of the liberal wing, as a rule, do not skimp on compliments (talented, courageous, powerful, virtuoso, polyphonic, wonderful, uncompromising, etc.) (Dolin, 2014; Plakhov, 2014; Stishova, 2014).
But in spite of such praises, some liberal film critics (and not so little) more subdued evaluating artistic result achieved in the Leviathan (thrift, straightness, superficiality, slurred, scarcity, falsity, emotional coldness, dramatic inconsistencies, etc.) (Bezruk, 2015; Bykov, 2015; Gireiev, 2015; Razlogov, 2014; Timofeevsky, 2015; Zelvensky, 2015).
Perhaps it is someone will seem paradoxical, but film critics of the conservative wing were as close as possible to their most critically-minded liberal fellow in the evaluation of the artistic level of Leviathan (conservative critics use the words such as straightness, boredom, dramatic discrepancies, stamp, serial, etc.) (Kulanin, 2015; Loshakova, 2015; Moskvina, 2015; Rutkovsky, 2014; Yampolskaya, 2015).
So, liberal media criticism quite clearly divided into two camps in relation to the artistic level of Leviathan: the unconditional fans and those who are considered Leviathan a step backwards compared with previous works A. Zvyagintsev (The Return, Exile, and Elena). But not very many disagreements are among the liberals on the Sunstroke: in general, all the opinions are negative (heaviness, strained, weak, secondary, slowness, boredom, illustrative, tasteless, vulgar, dishonesty, false, anti-liberal propaganda, obsessive self-citations, etc) (Bezruk 2014; Bykov, 2014; Gireiev, 2014; Maslova, 2014; Zabaluev, 2014; Zelvensky, 2014).
Some liberal film critics very negatively responded to the erotic scenes in the Sunstroke. Critics considered this scene almost vulgar parody (Ivanov, 2014; Matizen 2014; Tyrkin, 2014). However, A. Dolin and V. Kichin several alleviate this critical blows, noting the artistry of the analyzed media text (Dolin, 2014; Kichin, 2014).
And of course, some of the liberal film critics' community did not escape the temptation to blame of Nikita Mikhalkov. They accused him of losing the creative form (Kudryavtsev, 2014; Stishova, 2014).
Naturally, film critics of the conservative wing very positive appreciated the artistic level of Sunstroke, arguing that Mikhalkov did not lost his skill and talent (Haknazarov, 2014; Omecinskaya, 2014; Rutkovsky, 2014; Surikov, 2014; Yampolskaya, 2015).
4. Results
So, the result of the analysis, manifested in the fact that the approach of the Russian film critics clearly delineated political and ideological criteria. Film critics of conservative and liberal distributed in most cases into two irreconcilable camps. Such a distinction is quite typical for today's Russian journalism. This is typical, of course, not only film studies, but in general, in media criticism. On the one side there are a film/media critics' community groups advocating Western-style liberal values, on the other hand - their colleagues who hold conservative positions and special way of Russia's status.
5. Conclusion
So, Leviathan and Sunstroke, in fact, has become an indicator of the political stratification of Russian film criticism: in many cases, films were analyzed, first of all, not as a works of art, but as social and ideological messages. However, this is not surprising, because of the bundle of Russian
film critics' community. However, the Russian mass audience as a whole is much more conservative than media criticism community. And, of course which is more focused on entertainment component of media culture (and the lack of interest of the vast audience in serious problems eloquently showed modest box-offices of Leviathan and Sunstroke)...
6. Acknowledgements
Article was written as part of research with the financial support of the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation. Project № 14-18-00014 «Synthesis of media education and media criticism in the process of preparing future teachers," performed at the Taganrog Institute of Management and Economics.
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