Yesterday we were lucky enough to attend a premiere of the Dutch movie “Duska” at the International Film Festival “Molodist”.
Duska seems to be a simple movie about simple things. At first. Your second glance back to the movie and the feelings it tries to communicate makes it more clear for understanding. Thanks to the lead actor Sergij Makovetskij who hinted to the audience before the movie fired off that we should not take this movie too seriously and Duska is not the real person, that is something we meet each day in everyone of us. This made me think that Duska is not even a general image of a certain type of people but a life incarnation. Life is the thing that makes us hate it as long as we live it and regret it having passed by, and trying to return to what we used to dislike. Bob, the central character in the movie, is the weak person, unable to decide what he really wants in this life. He is pessimistic about his future he has no past. The girl whom he likes, on the contrary, is energetic and optimistic despite bizarre minuscule everyday troubles she is in.
What is outstanding about the movie – its multilevelness, the number of problems it argues is enormous: friendship, loneliness, pessimism, national peculiarities, finding one’s place in this life, misunderstandings, etc.
And above all of it stands our inability to deal with problems: we so often look at it and we can’t think of any means to solve it. Until the problem becomes a part of us so that we can’t live without it at all.
