Hurricane of parenting: "Difficult Child" is a carefree celebration of the absurd
Forbidden techniques, hooligan jokes, gang violence and a shy school principal — it's hard to talk about a "Difficult child" because every word unwittingly turns into a spoiler. Football, immigrants, police, moonshiners, girls in braces, museum workers, tractor drivers and pioneers are mocked here. But for some reason it doesn't turn out to be offensive or tactless. "Izvestia" tells about the armor-piercing hit TV series, which CTC will release on September 21.
It took a long time for the crocodile to extinguish the blue sea
Everything is mixed up in the country where the action of "Difficult Child" is unfolding. Everything is upside down, topsy-turvy. A football player teaches history, the principal is afraid to fire a teacher who has run wild and plunges a child's head into the toilet, a policeman castrates cats, a child sets fire to a tutor, a mother loses her baby at every opportunity, summer residents with guns from "Mad Max" storm the neighbors. Masked men are racing in Lenin's museum electric car, pensioners are hacking accounts with amateur eroticism, a quadrober girl is running around the lawns, a pioneer choir is singing in the gangster's waiting room, a policeman in love gets off a white horse, handcuffs himself to the railing and throws away the key.
The kitties grunted, the ducks croaked, like Korney Chukovsky's in the brilliant "Confusion." The absurdist comedy "The Difficult Child" continues the almost classical traditions of Ivan Okhlobystin, the Presnyakov brothers, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Murzenko, Gregory of Constantinople. Everything here is theatrical, grotesque, paradoxical, the characters express themselves with aphorisms and quotations. "It's a story, baby. Everything is doubtful here." "I'm not a gangster. I'm a Komsomol member." "And how? ""Did Gorbachev defeat the Polovtsians?" You immediately want to write it in a notebook, it's meme and viral, but we haven't seen all the episodes created by showrunners Leonid Konshin ("Real Boys") and Sergey Andrianov ("Patriot") yet. At the ""Pilot"" TV series festival in Ivanovo, the show won the "Viewers' Choice" award.
What is the TV series "Difficult Child"?
The name was very well chosen. Who exactly is considered a "difficult child" is almost impossible to decide here, because every other character claims this role, including the protagonist, who is seriously puzzled by the fate of his father, who looks like Iggy Pop. The protagonist's name is Philip Mukhin, and every dog knows him because he is the forward of the local football team. On live TV, after scoring a goal, he did a winning somersault, landed unsuccessfully, and flew out of big—time football with a knee injury.
The series begins with the fact that Mukhin, who got a job as a history teacher at school, is fired from his job for child abuse. The former football player lies on the stove, and then gets off it and steals a gangster "Porsche" with his sidekick, and then the local godfather instructs Mukhin to take care of his wayward son after he almost killed his grandson. All this does not prevent Philip from tutoring at unprecedented low prices.
It seems that the previous two paragraphs were written by a random word generator, but this really happens in the first half hour of the series, and, by the way, not only that. The characters mint their dialogues in the "pokerface" mode, as prescribed by the already established tradition. True, it's a bit unusual that there's no mat that suggests a genre, but many people have already gotten used to it. But the emphasized theatricality almost never seems superfluous, the twenty-minute episodes look in one go, and the authors sprinkle gags and lines with quotes and allusions. "The Outskirts" ""by Lutsik and Samoryadov," "Home Alone," and, of course, that "Difficult Child" who was watched through the holes in every family in the era of video recorders.
This is probably the kind of film language that fits perfectly with Russian reality, and the characters, for all their strangeness at first glance, are somehow recognizable. ""Gennady Blinov, in the image of a football player / historian/hijacker / kidnapper/ avenger, adds a little bit of a "Courier" and a little bit of a "Fool" in the toilet. Alexander Robak plays Don Corleone, who cosplays Stalin and impresses others with his quirks about the Soviet past. A wheelchair user, sadist, tyrant and schemer, he is most busy looking for someone to inherit his criminal kingdom. Stasia Miloslavskaya transferred her role of a rebel here, adding a little bit of "Accident — the daughter of a cop." """"Ilya" "Makarov" works in the direction of the American comedy of the 1990s, his character came out of the hits "Dumb and dumber", "Where's my car, dude?", "Babysitters" and "Home Alone". This is not an acting ensemble, but a burning cocktail in which the ingredients and flavors seem incongruous, but, as one of the characters says, "for some reason they work."
There wasn't enough of this kind of content because it's a risk. Not trash comedy for the marginalized or aesthetes, not social satire for students and intellectuals, but humor on the verge of foul, where taboos are violated and politics are respected. It's clear that the screenwriters have a lot of riskier jokes up their sleeves, but even what appeared on the screen is enough for "Difficult Child" to become a hit and sell quotes. "We are not an organized crime group. I'm a tutor, and Denis is Konoplev." It's really funny, and the further you go, the more.
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