Here was "Pasha": the story of those who found themselves overboard
What's in the mind of a lonely young tuner, a Muscovite with Uzbek looks and no purpose in life? Why do people think he's a loser, but he doesn't seem bothered by it? Anton Kolomeets and Evgenia Tamakhina are producing the series "Pasha" — about people who find themselves on the sidelines: those who could not find themselves, lost their footing and were left without care and attention. The release of the dramedy show took place on July 10 at Amediatek: the first two episodes were posted. Izvestia has watched three and tells us why the series should not be skipped and what questions there are about it.
What is the series "Pasha" about
The series creates an ambivalent impression. On the one hand, such a story was clearly not enough for everyone. On the other hand, the topic is so difficult that the viewer involuntarily has to look for excuses for the authors for certain controversial decisions. In any case, without this series, summer would be much more bland. And by the end, who knows, the story may take a completely unexpected turn.
A shot from the TV series "Pasha"
The main character is Pasha, a 32—year-old Muscovite piano tuner. Askar Ilyasov has just won the Best Actor Award at the Pilot TV Series Festival for this role. By the way, Kolomeets and Tamakhina were awarded the prize for the best screenplay there. Pasha earns little, lives with his mother, and borrows money from his brother all the time. Many years ago, he abandoned Gnesinka, broke up with his beloved girlfriend — and that's it, his life is quiet, monotonous and hopeless. And everyone around, on the contrary, is spinning, earning, achieving, "moving forward."
One day, Pasha has to move out of his apartment for ten days, and this exposes the vulnerability of his position. There are no normal friends, there is nowhere really to live. I was running away from the inspectors — I fell, broke a tooth, and there was nothing to put a crown on. I want to go to the homecoming party, but I can't chip in. A series of failures triggers a series of meetings and forced acquaintances, and some of them will clearly become fateful. The main question is: will Pasha change in these ten days, or will he return to his apartment with his mother and continue living as before?
How did the series "Pasha" turn out?
The film "Jura was Here" was recently released in Russia. Konstantin Khabensky played an adult with ASD there, who for ten days was forced to move from his apartment, where his brother took care of him, to the rented "hut" of his idiot nephew. It eventually changed both him and those he met in that short period. Yura had a disability, there were "special features" — and Pasha is perfectly healthy, but there are, of course, many similarities between these characters and situations.
A shot from the TV series "Pasha"
Pasha is also in an outcast position. His Uzbek father gave him an appearance that is difficult to deal with in Moscow, although the young man does not know a word of Uzbek. The eternal lack of money in a city that does not believe in tears leads to constant conflicts. Pasha is introverted, he has big communication problems — simply put, he does not know how to communicate with either men or women. At best, they consider him a freak, and at worst they try to punch him in the teeth — although one is already missing. No one understands why Pasha lives like this and doesn't change anything. This issue is especially acute after the alumni meeting, where it turns out that the hero could have become a serious musician, but at some point he simply put his life on hold.
Is he the only one? No, of course not. As an outcast, Pasha comes into contact with other renegades. There are such people among his former classmates, and indeed they are found at every turn. Here is the only sidekick of Pasha Tolya, who sits in his den in a bathrobe from the Big Lebowski and gets involved in dubious adventures. He also has an unsociable tenant with a nightmarish character (Nadezhda Lumpova from "Alice can't Wait"). An unsuccessful actress (Irina Gorbacheva) is dragging some bags through the dark streets.
A shot from the TV series "Pasha"
On the bus, Pasha always comes across grumpy fellow travelers, who also have a bad temper for a reason. Illegal immigrants without a Russian language, receptionists who are humiliated by their superiors with impunity, women on the verge of divorce, or those who have been unable to find a husband for a very long time and are going crazy about it — this gallery of images multiplies, creating a portrait not of a generation, but of the population. A population that is divided into arrogant, well—fed, prosperous pragmatists - and everyone else who is thrown to the sidelines.
This is both the main advantage of the series and its weakness. The series is not generational, not only because it is full of characters of a different age, but also because the generation itself is not expressed in any way, is not endowed with distinctive properties. If you change the age of Pasha and his peers to 42 or even 52, nothing will change. And the characters live in a kind of abstract Moscow without a clear time frame — we don't understand whether the action is taking place now or ten years ago.
A shot from the TV series "Pasha"
I would like to get to know the main character better, but his image is muted (intentionally?), and we learn too little about him in the first three episodes available to the press. Although Ilyasov still manages to make this naive stubborn man fall in love, who has no hobbies, no girlfriends, no dreams, but only a void inside that Pasha does not even try to fill. If we compare the non-speaking Yura and the speaking Pasha, then we understand much less about the latter at the same time. The series focuses on reportage sketches and a gallery of oddballs, and they try to divert our attention to other characters. And what about Pasha, because the project is named after him?
Everything is unclear with Pasha. It is clear that the authors were guided by the Melody from Otar Ioseliani's masterpiece "Once upon a Time there was a songbird". Gia is about the same age, also a "musician, but not quite", he has done nothing in his life, is not passionate about anything; "serious", adult people around him condemn him for frivolity. In order not to think, he preoccupies himself with ultra-small tasks, without setting big goals. But Gia accepted this life with all his heart, his free flight is short, tragic and beautiful. In the case of Pasha, there is nothing beautiful or enviable. And it's not so easy to connect to this character, so closed and sleeping.
A shot from the TV series "Pasha"
If this problem is not solved in the next episodes, there is a risk of getting a set of very accurate, painfully accurate sketches-jokes, many of which will not be able to "disentangle". And the main character, along with his drama, will remain in the role of an observer and a catalyst. Moreover, even if Pasha starts acting in the end, the question remains why the authors made the exhibition so extensive, having not so much screen time at their disposal. Critics can afford to watch for a long time and wait — the average viewer will not be able to stand it and will go to competitors, of which there are many. He won't have time to fall in love with Pasha, and he won't know if his ending will be less bitter than Ioseliani's.
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