I would really describe Danilla as an Anti- Hero. He has good intentions and wants to help the good of humanity…he’s just murderous, and very, very violent. He really doesn’t have any Godly morels which would be: talking things out. He doesn’t wish to be violent, he really just wants to help people, like his brother Viktor, who needed to Danilla to do a hit to save his life.
A comic book relation? Yes, there is that. He does really seem like this anti hero hit man crazy sob that can do anything. The way he invents this silencer out of ordinary materials? GENIUS. I’d say he could be hiding something. With the skills like that, I wonder what it must have been like at ‘HQ.’ But that of course is the beauty of it. The director wanted to introduce us to a character that is highly skilled for a reason we don’t why.
The two woman that he becomes involved with are almost opposite. Cat is a free spirit, punk rock, drug user who pretty much lives on the streets. Then there’s Sveta who’s enslaved to a violent man she doesn’t love, lives in an apartment and doesn’t seem to like Danilla’s music. The two of them could serve as balance for Danilla. Instead of going to one, he is countered by the other.
The Music. Can’t quite explain that. I guess it could be like his source for the outside world. He’s new to Petersburg and just doesn’t seem to be experienced in traveling. Or maybe he uses it to keep cool and keep his mind of things.
Foreigners are portrayed as not very bright. The tourists, and the Frenchman don’t understand Russian which is subject to Danilla insulting American Music.
It had an old school feel. The sepia sets a warm tone and gives it a more fiction look to it. The black outs seem dramatic and seem to me to show that every scene is very important.
Great movie. Reminded me of No Country for Old Men.
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I am honestly laughing right now....in a really good way I suppose. I never ever thought of this as having any relation to a comic book. but I totally agree with that statement. It seems like a comic book I would love to read.... And Totally agree with No Country for Old Men. Liked both of them. :)
ReplyDeleteThere's a potential link between Kat and the foreigners, I think. She sort of seems to represent the Westernized Russian who has sold her soul (and her body) to what the film interprets as American and Western bad influences (fast food (note how she's really wolfing down that McDonald's cherry pie at the end), western music and a loose style of life).
ReplyDeleteThe movie was strangely filmed in an overall sepia tone. I'd agree that Danila is like an anti-hero. He seems to have quite the split personality.
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