Culture|The supplier recommends
The strike film Dear Comrades, takes the viewer to the center of a fierce demonstration whose bloody solution was secreted by the Soviet Union.
Labor strike as wages fall and prices rise. They marched on the center of Novocherkassk to show their anger at Soviet decision-makers. The frightened party crowd wonders whether the people should be tamed with kalashnikovein.
84-year-old Russian director Andrei Kontšalovski has created a fierce and crushing film about the long-concealed 1962 massacre. A narrow black-and-white photo takes you to the middle of the crowd as the people rush to the market with rocks in their hands. The film is rightly raw.
Presented at the Love & Anarchy festivals Dear comrades can watch at Yle Areena, but I highly recommend waiting for Kino Regina until the January shows.
It is possible to visit Regina in the autumn. In the series dedicated to Kontalalovsk, you can see how Andrei Tarkovsky the couple slid with censorship and ended up directing to Hollywood Sylvester Stallonea Tango & Cash in the turkey.
Dear comrades, at Yle Areena and Kino Regina on January 4th.
Chernobyl destroyed the Soviet Union
To Finland rained 50 times the normal amount of radiation from the molten Chernobyl reactor core. The nuclear projects of the Soviet Union could have caused even worse destruction: a similar threatening situation was barely brought under control in the Leningrad region in 1975.
In the Soviet Union, energy was at the heart of party politics. Serhii Plokhyn book Chernobyl: The History of the Nuclear Disaster clarifies to the nearest minute why everything went wrong in the ideal power plant on April 26, 1986. A professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University suggests that a nuclear accident might have been the last stitch for a troubled communist state.
The strength of the book lies in going through the endless casting failures of the socialist system. It is difficult to build a safe nuclear power plant in a country where the party’s annual goals were more important than the views of experts and the survival of citizens.
Chernobyl: A History of the Nuclear Disaster, Ottawa 2020
The culmination of stupidity
Dave Chapelle in The Closer.
Comedian Dave Chapelle says it several times in a stand up recording, “I’m a transphobic.” The Closer is the closing figure for Netflix performances that have caused growing uproar.
Now Netflix is in turmoil when accused of publishing hate speech. Chapelle’s material cannot be read as such. It’s not as straightforwardly gender-conservative as one might infer from the news stories.
Sentences cannot be spelled and copypasted as loose citations, as they are part of the whole and cannot be understood without it. They are also – jokes. Chapelle says anything to cause a snarl. Taking the mark of a spooky man is part of the annoyance.
Chapelle is faithfully stupid in his style. He doesn’t realize the concerns of transgender people, but tries to support the struggle of LGBTQI people. He contempts everyone at the time, especially white people.
Underlying Ronski’s stuff is a constant desire to understand.
Towards the end, they even stray to milking tears. After a personal story, it’s very tricky to claim that Chapelle would pot any kind of phobias.
The show is a cleverly constructed whole that deals with everything that those who have been discriminated against may act. This also applies to blacks, for whose violence Chapelle laughs most bitterly.
The Closer, on Netflix
Correction 16.10. at 10.05 a.m.: Fixed the title of Dear Comrades to the closing tip, which previously read incorrectly Dear People.
Knausgård’s Morning Star and Hyppönen’s Internet collected the most reservations in Helmet libraries from 6 to 13 October.
Fiction
1) Karl Ove Knausgård: The Morning Star
2) Camilla Läckberg: Mentalist
3) Meri Valkama: Your, Margot
4) Anni Ihlberg: A cheerleader
5) Abdulrazak Gurhan: Afterlives
6) Juha Itkonen: Everything was theirs
Nonfiction
1) Mikko Hyppönen: The Internet
2) Ben MacIntyre: Agent Sonja: mistress soldier, mother, spy.
3) Veli-Pekka Lehtonen: Renny Harlin: My unique life
4) Marija Vantti: Do not touch the butterfly’s wings
5) Anna Kontula: Little Bourgeoisie: a reflection on the spirit of our time
6) Vesa Kontiainen: Mato Valtonen: insanely brutal multipurpose life
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