The TV channel "TNT" is developing a new genre for Russia dramedi together with the TV series "Sweet Life". The series sharp, controversial, quite frankly, in general, a new character that will have to taste not every viewer.

Wrap up the dream

At the center of the story - six successful Muscovites them a little over thirty, their lives, they feel successful, they have had some success and reap the fruits of labor and investment of youth. All breaks the appearance of Sasha (March Nosov), to make a living dancing in nightclubs. Sasha has not the best time, left without jobs and housing, she turns to old friend Leray (Lukerya Il'yashenko) to stay with her for a couple of days. Lera agrees and introduces it with your friends: two respectable married couples Marc (Anton Denisenko) and Julia (Anastasia Meskova) and Vadim (Roman Mayakin) and Natasha (Maria Shumakova), as well as a perpetual loner and Don Juan Igor (Nikita Panfilov).

Sasha immediately finds himself in the midst of events, she understands the intricacies of the relationship between the characters and simultaneously looking for ways to earn money and get on their feet to help her daughter, left with his grandmother in his native city.

Outside and inside

Heroes "Sweet Life" - socio-adapted version of the characters Minaevskogo "Duhless", they have all the same values ​​- sex, money and pleasure, but more fear and doubt over them dominates the growing crisis and fear of change.

The creators of the show talking about the quest for sensual realism and sincerity, which they put into their work. The sincerity and realism on the screen take on the form of obsessive naturalism that viewers are served with sauce author's vision, on the substitution of notions and suggests the existence of two versions: censored for the evening show and a revelation for the show at night.

Talking about sex and sex show without having to show not turned into vulgarity, manages a small number of directors. Andrew Dzhunkovsky ("The Heiress", "Victoria"), who shot the "Dolce Vita", in not one of them. He attempts to show the relationship between a man and a woman are deeply and thoroughly, touching every aspect, but, instead of engaging in secret, there is a feeling that the actors posing for the camera in search of a better angle, they are outside the narrative, rather than inside it, more than interacting with bystander than with each other.

A short course of levity

Characters "Sweet Life" belong to the type of people who the authors of the series called "modern Muscovites", in fact, they do not belong to a particular social group. They used to throw money around, have fun, get out of life, but the opportunities they are bored. These people have little interest in politics and what is happening in the world, they are a way of life held hedonists who do not want to enter the altars of their comfort zone, suffering only from what day yesterday is similar to the present day.

In fact, the whole show is held on seven characters faces. Young, who have not yet become familiar too, the actors get used to the role, as best they can, treating artistic design director. At one turns out better, others worse. March Nosov, who plays Sasha, trying to embody on the screen whether the archetype of the "superfluous man", whether involved in the action of the viewer, but the fuse ends quickly, and her character comes to life only through the specific humor embedded into the mouth of a character script. One of the memorable images, narcissistic and unscrupulous Don Juan Igor, played by Nikita Panfilov, through it, you can feel the tension action.

All this swarming and the search for the meaning of life does not turn into the characters or the plot of this drama. Explicit scenes able to attract audiences, but they do not make the show memorable. Intimacy, expressed as primitive, crumbles of stereotyped scenes and dialogues.

"Sweet Life" fit into six time series. Beautiful, convex image, illustrating a perfect life and appealing characters, is not able to redeem all the shortcomings of the script and minimal acting. The series is similar to shooting a puppet of the world where everything is made of plastic and painted in bright colors, looks unnatural, but done perfectly. The characters do not find the heroes of our time and the future, they embody a mythical idea of ​​someone's well-being and pain. Neither morality nor ideological values ​​in the series is not found, it does not find that same sincerity that under the guise of trying to sell a fake.

Anna Chizh

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