This film completely stands for a political view, neo-liberalism. An atheist university professor criticizes faith an god with an ex-gulag prisoner who sells grain alcohol from his murky, grubby, and isolated home. However, he aims or just fancies to reach "the city of sun". A Soviet officer, who has sadistic thoughts and a killer, kidnaps a teenager then takes home to meet his abnormal mother. These are all showed to be interesting. Is that so? A socialist country can have such a mad people? Of course, yes. The today's capitalist countries have too many cases like this film shows us. Look around your country, presidents having sex with secretaries, ministers who ex-change their wife and having sex with each others children. It is not convincing that this film is based on real experienced things by the way. To sum up, i would like to ask a question: "Does this kind of political and moral degradation decrease or increase in Russia?". I should advise Aleksey Balbanov to analyze today's ethic, political and moral values of Russia and compare them with the past.
