I have of course many reasons for liking and approving of the old Russian adaptations and I like them also because they keep the names and places of the literary works they adaptthese are not transposed like in the American adaptations but the audience is considered capable of the effort to accept that interesting stories take place in different places of this world and one can enjoy a story even if the names and places involved sound strange to him. In THE LAST INCH, the kid and his father have the English names given by the literary work's author.
The director knows how to satisfactorily tell a story; his flick pleases by its concreteness. No propaganda about poverty and need; the director develops the extremely simple and even meager story following the potentialitieshe crafts his scenes, and is primarily a craftsman. Those exasperated by the abstractness and dryness of the conventional unimaginative film storytelling will appreciate that this director sees the things in their natural connections and not following the haste and requirements of an abstract storyline. Do not imagine, dear reader, that I am trying to make this anonymous director as an artist; I have said it, he's a craftsman. He simply worked in a cinema that was naturally more favorable to intelligence and kept a sense of the reality. Nothing is pushed or ostentatiously underlined'here's a comingofage story as well as a critique of the social relations in capitalist systems' . It's simply an average drama, to be liked as such.
THE LAST INCH is a perhaps modest flick about some basic values as met in the lives of a small familya father and his kid: courage, endurance, manliness, discretion, strength; the style employed has its merits as wellthe naturalness and the directness. As presented by the director, the story is so manifestly true to the everyday conditions of the lives that it can't get preachyyet the intent certainly aimed at the educative. Not at all banal, but extraordinary, this family's adventure maintains a tone of decency and simplicity and humanness. It suggests to a certain degree a well made J London movie.
The director knows how to satisfactorily tell a story; his flick pleases by its concreteness. No propaganda about poverty and need; the director develops the extremely simple and even meager story following the potentialitieshe crafts his scenes, and is primarily a craftsman. Those exasperated by the abstractness and dryness of the conventional unimaginative film storytelling will appreciate that this director sees the things in their natural connections and not following the haste and requirements of an abstract storyline. Do not imagine, dear reader, that I am trying to make this anonymous director as an artist; I have said it, he's a craftsman. He simply worked in a cinema that was naturally more favorable to intelligence and kept a sense of the reality. Nothing is pushed or ostentatiously underlined'here's a comingofage story as well as a critique of the social relations in capitalist systems' . It's simply an average drama, to be liked as such.
THE LAST INCH is a perhaps modest flick about some basic values as met in the lives of a small familya father and his kid: courage, endurance, manliness, discretion, strength; the style employed has its merits as wellthe naturalness and the directness. As presented by the director, the story is so manifestly true to the everyday conditions of the lives that it can't get preachyyet the intent certainly aimed at the educative. Not at all banal, but extraordinary, this family's adventure maintains a tone of decency and simplicity and humanness. It suggests to a certain degree a well made J London movie.
