Film Summary DLXXIII (The Death of Stalin)


A dictator dies, a bunch of people try to take his place. There's a lot of internal squabble and everyone speaks with a thick British accent except for the two or three major American actors.
There's No Illusion to make the film feel like it's Russian any way shape or form.
There's a scene later on where they're showing the Moscow Kremlin and you can see the Czar two-headed eagle that's currently up there now.
Like you could have CG that out or just shot it in a different way so you didn't have to see that. I know most people won't care but it kind of sticks out when you realise that Romanoff imagery was highly prohibited at the time.

It's a perfectly okay comedy and it does have a few comedic bits but there's just something about the way everyone speaks in this movie that I think's going to make it incredibly dated in a few years. (maybe a few decades)

I really wish this movie could have been handled by a Ukrainian or Latvian director or even somebody from Azerbaijan.
Just somebody with a cultural link to the Carnage and with an understanding of that strange mundane black humour that was so prevalent throughout the Soviet Union. It's not to say that an American or a Brit or anyone else can't understand that kind of Comedy but it's incredibly difficult to achieve.

It's a fairly well paced movie. It felt like we never really got to the true climax of the film. You have all this build-up with all the different high-ranking rulers in Stalin's cabinet. Each one trying to make sense of the situation and a few of them are doing everything in their power to conquer the country usually with blunt executions and a lot of Bribery.
And then it just ends.
Khrushchev and Zhukov take control over Lavrentiy Beria along with a military coup and become the official rulers of the country (will Khrushchev dose) before the entire country can develop down in the Civil War in vast in fighting.
Which isn't horribly accurate* with how it happened in real life but then the film stretching out its historical accuracy so we can have a more coherent and amusing story.
Which on an entertainment level I'm not bothered with it doesn't matter that the Russian hockey team technically died three years private previous to this event because it works out better in the film. Although the History part of my brain which is a film could just be historically accurate as I think most of the time it becomes more entertaining than anything we can conjure up in her mind. But each to their own.

*I mean they're not going off the walls of the history they have all the right people committing the coup they have the right sentence given to Beria and it is a series of events that did happen. It's just done in a more streamlined and kind of simple way in the story. And now I'm wondering how much of that's actually connected to the comic book this whole thing is based off of. The fact I just learned a few moments ago. This whole thing was a comic book movie.

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