BETWEEN LOCKSHIN'S MASTER AND MARGARITA
There are many reviews of the latest version of The Master and Margarita on the internet. Some of them by reviewers who haven’t even read this Bulgakov's all-time classic and are therefore unaware with the facts about this controversial novel, which was banned during some period of the Soviet regime. Yet they post bla-bla-bla. Just like Donald Trump does - a master of bla-bla-bla in every area possible; a year ago it was less likely that he would rekindle from the political embers; the former president doesn't seem to burn just as manuscripts don't burn, according to the famous quote from The Master and Margarita.
The full-length film by Locksin lasts 157 minutes and is completely different from the previous adaptation in the form of a series of 10 episodes by Bortko; while the latter screens the acts of the novel almost scene for scene, the former delivers the controversial message interlocked between Bulgakov’s words and draws attention from political critics the same way the novel did decades ago. Lockshin’s cut hasn’t been banned so far and has even grossed a record box office of over 2,321,000,000 ₽ ($26,233,264) in Russia.
The film points out quite an unpleasant fact - the words of the politicians and zealots of the Soviet regime are empty: when Natasha catches Margarita and Master together on a picnic, Margarita says to her maid: Natasha, it's not me, it's another woman, like two peas in a pod. Do you understand me? Or Latunsky, whose criticism ruins the Master's play and who later apologises to him: You see, it's just a job, nothing personal; finally, the dialogues in the parallels between Satan's ball and the party for writers.
Bulgakov's Master says that writers who are silent aren't real. Truth with Ornaments is a gay novel based on a true story, silenced in Russia because of the anti-LGBTQ law, and real outside Russia.
Ps: as of today, Lockshin's Instagram has mysteriously disappeared for a few days. Is he repeating the fate of Bulgakov's Likhodeyev? Is the director in some kind of Yalta?
BETWEEN LOCKSHIN'S MASTER AND MARGARITA
There are many reviews of the latest version of The Master and Margarita on the internet. Some of them by reviewers who haven’t even read this Bulgakov's all-time classic and are therefore unaware with the facts about this controversial novel, which was banned during some period of the Soviet regime. Yet they post bla-bla-bla. Just like Donald Trump does - a master of bla-bla-bla in every area possible; a year ago it was less likely that he would rekindle from the political embers; the former president doesn't seem to burn just as manuscripts don't burn, according to the famous quote from The Master and Margarita.
The full-length film by Locksin lasts 157 minutes and is completely different from the previous adaptation in the form of a series of 10 episodes by Bortko; while the latter screens the acts of the novel almost scene for scene, the former delivers the controversial message interlocked between Bulgakov’s words and draws attention from political critics the same way the novel did decades ago. Lockshin’s cut hasn’t been banned so far and has even grossed a record box office of over 2,321,000,000 ₽ ($26,233,264) in Russia.
The film points out quite an unpleasant fact - the words of the politicians and zealots of the Soviet regime are empty: when Natasha catches Margarita and Master together on a picnic, Margarita says to her maid: Natasha, it's not me, it's another woman, like two peas in a pod. Do you understand me? Or Latunsky, whose criticism ruins the Master's play and who later apologises to him: You see, it's just a job, nothing personal; finally, the dialogues in the parallels between Satan's ball and the party for writers.
Bulgakov's Master says that writers who are silent aren't real. Truth with Ornaments is a gay novel based on a true story, silenced in Russia because of the anti-LGBTQ law, and real outside Russia.
Ps: as of today, Lockshin's Instagram has mysteriously disappeared for a few days. Is he repeating the fate of Bulgakov's Likhodeyev? Is the director in some kind of Yalta?