Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
What follows is no traditional action film, but a thriller with snatches of comedy, in which the enemy isn’t hidden behind masks, but is in the minds of the liberators. Before they act, they have to overcome their personal demons. Comparisons to the school hostage-takings in Beslan and Kazan are obvious, yet Karatas – the mythical village where much of director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s work is set – could be anywhere. It is universally acknowledged that crises bring out people's true natures.
#IFFR51#Big Screen Competition。叶尔江诺夫果然没让我失望，一如既往地烂……故事胡编也就算了，片子的底还是个三十年甚至五十年前的低级黑……所幸这次摄影还算比较讲究，也不至于一星了。总之就是个大号的摄影系学生作业，根本不能动一丢丢脑子，稍微一想就是WTF级别的“为什么啊”，就不说剧情和人设了，就连具体的调度甚至前后景关系也不少WTF。呵呵
摄影蛮好的，黑色幽默都做得很拙劣了，比前作《黄猫》中的天真浪漫差太多
2.5 #iffr_2022#
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas take the pupils hostage and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife the gym teacher the cowardly school principal ...
68/100 #IFFR2022# 男的都不行
