What happens if you go to war? The film "We are from the future"
This is a film about the attitude to the Great Patriotic War, to the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, a film for young people and modern youth and, of course, about love. At the training "System-vector psychology" we learn that the owner of the Russian urethral mentality feels a special responsibility for people, for the country, for the future. And for this common future, he can give everything, even his life …
It's easy to think of yourself as cool when you're young, you have money and you can afford more than others. And how will you behave in a real war, when tanks, explosions and death will be real, and not from a computer game, in which there is always an extra life and you can replay a lost battle?
Andrei Malyukov's film "We are from the Future" is a fantastic story about how modern young people from our time found themselves in the distant 1942 in the midst of heavy, bloody battles. This is a film about the attitude to the Great Patriotic War, to the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, a film for young people and modern youth and, of course, about love.
Masters of life
The team of black diggers - Borman, Chukha, Skull and Alcohol - consider themselves tough guys. They earn themselves a comfortable and cheerful life by doing illegal excavations in the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War in order to profitably sell the finds. Weapons and awards of fallen soldiers are especially appreciated.
Ordinary modern guys are nice, funny, relaxed, confident in themselves and their right to happiness, but, if anything, they are ready to defend this right with fists and baseball bats. The guys do not see anything reprehensible in their occupation - everyone earns to the best of their intelligence and luck. And their leader - a former student of history, Sergei Filatov, nicknamed Bormann - is both smart and lucky: he knows exactly where to dig, because he reads the memoirs of a German officer who fought in these places back in 1942.
Borman (his role is played by Danila Kozlovsky) - a developed anal-skin-sound-visual guy - leads his skin team toughly and effectively: he does not allow riots and injuries to the "labor force", does not wait for latecomers, applies sanctions to the guilty.
Skinhead Skull is fascinated by the ideas of National Socialism, dreams of finding a German iron cross and military weapons. He has his own view of history. “In the place of Stalin and Hitler, I would unite against the Americans,” he authoritatively declares to Spirt.
Rastaman Alcohol has gorgeous dreadlocks and has no looks of his own. He just loves music and needs money. Skin-visual alcohol and anal-muscular Skull do not digest each other, and while Bormann does not see, clashes constantly arise between them. After another verbal skirmish, the Skull even knocks Alcohol to the ground and, under the wild screams of his partner, cuts off his dreadlocks.
Well, Chukha is Bormann's childhood friend, a good, kind anal-visual guy, sensitive and non-aggressive, but who also really wants to be cool.
This city is ours
The guys feel like the masters of life. At the beginning of the film, one can clearly see their attitude to the war, to the army, to the state, when one of the guys, in order to go in the direction he needs, pushes the cadets who are marching past like annoying flies.
And this team of black diggers is incredibly lucky: they find a Soviet commander's dugout with remains, weapons and a safe with documents. Rich trophies bode well. The guys are organizing a party with food and music from a trophy gramophone.
Then mystical events begin. In the soldiers' books of the soldiers, they see their own names and photographs. Out of fright, deciding that these are hallucinations from fired vodka, the friends run to swim in the lake. Hastily undressed, dive and surface … in August 1942 in the midst of the battle. They, naked, frightened, confused, are found and seized by soldiers of the Red Army and taken to the commander.
War as it is
Bormann is the first to understand reality and tells Skull to smear a swastika tattoo on his shoulder with mud. They habitually try to joke with the commander, but they quickly realize that the jokes are over - they got into a real war, where they can really kill or shoot for desertion.
They absolutely do not want to participate in a war that is still alien to them. For them, the war is still some kind of stupid decoration, with which they want nothing to do and from which they need to escape as quickly as possible. The only character attractive to them is the nurse Ninochka Polyakova, whom Borman and Chukha simultaneously fall in love with at first sight.
The guys don't want to die at all, they are very, very, very scared. When the first air raid in their life begins, they are literally panicked. While the fighters defend themselves against tanks and infantry, the "tough guys" of our time writhe in fear, unable to overcome it. Chukha with crazy eyes huddles against the wall of the trench, Alcohol is feverishly digging the ground with his nails to bury himself deeper. Even a hefty Skull cannot budge from fright.
Borman is brought out of stupor and panic by the fragile nurse Ninochka when he sees her, without a second hesitation, fearlessly crawling to pull the wounded soldier from the battlefield. He tries to help her, and from that moment the surrounding reality gradually becomes reality for him.
Either feat or death
This reality puts the guys from the XXI century in the conditions of real military operations to protect the Motherland from the Nazis on a par with their peers from the XX century. They desperately try to escape back to their world, but to no avail.
By chance, the guys realize that the condition for returning (as in a computer game) is the extraction of an artifact. In their case, it is a silver cigarette case of Dmitry Sokolov, a Red Army soldier who died in these places. When they were still in their world, an old woman from a neighboring village asked to find her son and described a cigarette case by which one could identify him. Then they laughed cruelly at her and, in order to get rid of the granny, promised to find the remains of their son - and now this is their only way of salvation.
We see how their worldview gradually begins to change, when they see death as it is, when, against their will, they have to go into reconnaissance, take part in battles, when, covering their retreat, Sergeant Major Yemelyanov heroically dies. How, out of their inexperience, they are captured by the Germans and how the Red Army soldier Sergei Filatov, former Borman, begins to behave completely in Russian during interrogation. They see with their own eyes the massive heroism of Soviet fighters, where a large multinational people are fighting shoulder to shoulder, young and old, as a whole. And the individual feat of the captured scout Sokolov - the very one they were looking for and who nevertheless hands them his cigarette case and at the cost of his own life helps the guys escape.
And you could already return to your world, but there is an offensive ahead, and escape to the lake is impossible. Skin-visual Andrei, a former Alcohol, panics: he is scared the most, he is ready to run and persuades his friends to leave Sergei, who is now under arrest, and run to the lake without him. But even he can do his part: fighters ask him to play the guitar and we see how he transforms when he plays. In a war, a good soulful song is especially important, it raises morale, helps to live and fight.
Oleg, a former skinhead Skull, completely abandons his national socialist convictions and is seriously ready to stay and defend his homeland from the Nazis. “Weak? For a real business, not for selfish interests! He sees around seemingly ordinary guys, his peers, who are calm and ready to attack the enemy, ready to die, just to defeat the invaders. He sees who the Nazis really are, and that the soldiers of the Soviet army are the really tough guys.
Vitalik Beroev, the former Chukha, although he is in love with Sergei in the same girl, also refuses to leave his childhood friend and flee with Andrei from the battlefield.
Sergei is returning from arrest. In a few minutes, the offensive begins. They don't know yet that they are going to be heroes.
Love
The film depicts the role of a skin-visual woman in war in a very recognizable way. A small, fragile, gentle nurse Ninochka refuses to be transferred to the rear hospital, because she feels that the soldiers need it right here, on the front line. During the battle, she fearlessly pulls the wounded from the field, in moments of calm she sings a soulful song to keep the soldiers morale and inspire them to win.
Ninochka also desperately falls in love with the Red Army soldier Sergei Filatov, because, as she herself says: "I feel that he needs him, as if he is in trouble!" This is the whole essence of a developed skin-visual woman - to save those who disappear without her. Perhaps, thanks to her, our heroes managed to cope with the difficulties in which they found themselves, and to overcome them with dignity.
Sergei could not turn out to be a coward or a traitor in the eyes of Ninochka, therefore, even wounded, he crawls forward into the attack. One by one, the guys rise from the trench and run to the enemy. At first, timidly, more afraid for their lives than advancing, they try to join the general cry of "hurray." But then a bullet whistles - and you need to cover your comrade, here is an explosion - and you need to change the movement. And they merge with the company marching forward to win. Each next step becomes harder, more confident, stronger.
"Everyone is afraid, but you need to fight!" Live for yourself or live for others?
It is impossible, defending the Motherland, to fight and not be a hero. Our guys are destined to become heroes too. Because without them this fight cannot be won. The enemy pillbox is pouring fire without interruption and does not allow to raise the soldiers to attack. If he is not neutralized, the whole offensive will drown, and only our four know how to get to him, because they were here in reconnaissance together with Sergeant Major Erofeev.
They are still very, very, very scared and do not want to die. But at that moment, the Motherland becomes more important than one's own life. And they go. They go - just like thousands of our soldiers went to die for the Motherland, for Stalin, for the blue kerchief, for the future, for our happy life.
And there is no miracle in this: after all, that invincible spirit that burned in the hearts of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers and that is in every Russian person lives in them. At the training "System-vector psychology" we learn that the owner of the Russian urethral mentality feels a special responsibility for people, for the country, for the future. And for this common future, he can give everything, even his life.
***
The guys were able to return. After the battle, having completed the commander's task and neutralizing the enemy pillbox, they emerged from the lake in their own time, but became completely different people.
Andrei, who managed to overcome the fear of death, which by nature was stronger in him than in others, managed to go out of the trench to attack and cover his comrades. Sergei, who recognized love and saw the death of his beloved, will no longer be the former arrogant cynic. Vitalik was able to win not a computer battle, but a real battle. And Oleg now knows exactly what the real strength and the real truth are: the first thing he does when he goes ashore is right there, by the lake, with a stone rips off a Nazi tattoo from his shoulder. And yet they all learned the true value of combat awards.
From spoiled majors with sterile brains, having felt on their own skin all the horror and all the heroism of war, they turned into real men. They developed an inner core, an understanding of the value of human life and sincere feelings and a desire to be like the heroes who did the impossible in that war.
