This is a sharp serial film "Dark World: equilibrium" - a sample of a new type of urban fantasy, located on the top of popularity. In the story there is a young enthusiastic character, dive into a dangerous, unknown world of mystical creatures to save everyone and, of course, to find love Where to find love: simple advice to "interesting" consequences   lifetime.

Student, athlete and some medium

Dasha (Maria Pirogov) since childhood, strange things that she does not tell others. One day she finds out that it is not alone in its strangeness, there are others who call themselves Initiates able to see shadows, escaping from another world. Insiders are committed to catch shadows and return them back via the portal, found underground in the middle of the twentieth century. Mary became one of them, absorb new knowledge and learning to deal with the power given to her at birth.

Over Moscow threatened with, a fine line between the worlds can be destroyed at any time, and then the shadows welling to freedom. Masha and her boyfriend Sam (Paul Priluchny), was also devoted to the need to save the fragile balance, otherwise humanity will be destroyed.

Break to fight evil

"Dark World: balance" is an extended version of the full-length film of the same name. The film came out in 2010, but continued to television filmmakers have matured a long time.

As the main character of the series presents the student Dasha, a little melancholic and thoughtful, at times as if falling outside of reality. Played by Maria Pirogova Dasha is not like any female warriors or the future strategy, nor a thinker, in a word, if Dasha and has some special spiritual qualities, the viewer it will never know because on screen it is a typical teenager, which curiously all new tires and all serious. And that Dasha did not despair of half modern heroines of popular fantasy saga.

Paul Priluchny as Sam is a fine line between posturing and charm, not every role he succeeds, but the "dark world" nature of his character is registered and displayed well, and he never forgets that he is only a supplement to the and plays the main character, respectively.

Insiders in the series look like freaks, then there is only one instructor (Igor Chernechevich) - Mentor heroine and rather mysterious character whose existence is tied to the magical portal. He exists outside of time, barely paying attention to what is happening in the outside world. His players are like geeks, not the hunters monsters. Shadows of the same insidious and dangerous, on the contrary, smart, attractive and deliberately aggressive, they are perfectly adapted to their new world, but surely lose even the not too skillful team initiates.

The series starred: Vladislav Abashin Alexander Ratnikov Evgeniya Brik, Gregory Skryapkin Valeria Lanskaya Makar Zaporozhye, Pyotr Semak, Paulina Andreev, Alexei Maklakov, Anna Tsukanov-Kott, Alice Khazanov and others.

A world that is around us

The series came up and wrote co-authors-writers Sergey and Marina Dyachenko. The plot is laid out masterfully that the film, which in the series. A simple story, using the cliché of clichés, despite the predictability, support until the end of the intrigue. The director of the series Oleg Asadulin ("Miracle", "ship") is sufficient to follow the logic of the narrative, without stretching it, to feel the pace in the series, is involved in the action.

Fortunately for the TV series "Dark World: harmony," it removes the film company "Central Partnership" has decided not to skimp on special effects and forced the director to think about how to create magic on screen with the help of improvised means. Thanks to computer graphics come to life not only the mystical world and the real world - part of the urban landscape of Moscow is drawn on the computer. Visualization is definitely lagging behind the best specimens of Western art, but does not make ashamed for Russian producers of serials.

"Dark World: equilibrium" - one of the best Russian series in the genre of urban fantasy, despite the fact that it felt secondary story and for all moviegoers are some obvious borrowings from other adventure films.

Anna Chizh

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