It is a really funny name Andrey E. He chose his Manchu mane. And it is his first, University time, movie which attracted attention right away, especially in the country of dying social realism. Firstly, it is a story of a real medical surgery operation on separating the Siamese twins Masha and Sasha. (Later they would live long enough to learn they are nobodies, to become alcoholic's and die). secondly, a girl is quoting some lines from Tomas Mann "The Magic Mountain" with description of the gore scenes of Wolrd War I. Then there is some info about horrific efforts to produce a super man in Soviet Russia. All those plots may make you really disturbed and puzzled. You are sure it is a talented job deserved to be awarded. But... what did the director wanted to say by his work? He is in a cozy position: like, this is, folks, what I tell you and, well, you...ah... watch it and... I don't know what. Later Mr. E made another interesting (not documentary) movie called "Scientific Section of Pilots" (Nauchnaya sektsiya pilotov (1996) here in IMDb.COM) about strange, fake and real, dead bodies in Moscow metro (which is funny too, for we are ready to see something like this in American movies, and, thank God, not here in Moscow) with a slogan like "7 millions go underground and some never get out!" Now he has done a TV-series about mysterious places (like abandoned KGB bunkers) located in all over Russia. So Mr. E seems to have only one track: mystification. So when you are in the right mood, you may watch it but it is just Russia movie past, as it is already outmoded now.
3 Reviews
For fans of medical documentaries
mrdonleone18 October 2019
It is hard to have an opinion about "Engineering Red". One could get excited by it, be disgusted too. It is so called based on the works of Thomas Mann, but just as much as Pasolini's "Salo" is based on the works of De Sade... and a bit less, to quite tell the truth. In all it's esthetics, it remains a medical documentary and all the rest around it is just fancy talk. Interesting food for the eyes, sure, but necessary for life values enrichment?? Certainly not.
I Can Not Rate This Movie Correctly.
DarkSpotOn8 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I Can Not Rate This Movie Correctly, i have seen it, without any subtitles, so i barely had any clues what is going on. I can go on and say that the movie is definetly bizzare, and it seems meaningful. Apparently the first part of the movie, is about fingers on legs, can be moved to hands if needed.
Also this movie seems pretty realistic, as in there's no special effects, like Traces of Death or Faces of Death, it seems like a "movie" That depicts actual events, everything is real. The second part, was the only "disturbing" part of the movie, where we see children that are born together, pretty much two heads, one body, four hands, two legs. It's really bizzare, and it was mostly sad really. Until the ending of the segment, which truly just made me sick, and i am somebody that watched tons of graphic movies, i am not going to spoiler, it's really bad, and really graphic depiction, Colorized.
Third segment which seemed the weakest, is about apparently dead people's blood being useable on alive people. During the movie, there's theses prolonged scenes. That serve no purpose, transitions, of dots, and randomness, and there's this chick that serves no purpose, she's sitting there, and then she begins eating with hands, it just is really confusing. However, the movie does seem to have purpose, and i understand why the movie is in the end of the iceberg, dye to the second part, where you see actual children struggling to survive, and that end scene of the second part, still is horrifying to think of.
Again, i did not have any subtitles when watching this, so.
Also this movie seems pretty realistic, as in there's no special effects, like Traces of Death or Faces of Death, it seems like a "movie" That depicts actual events, everything is real. The second part, was the only "disturbing" part of the movie, where we see children that are born together, pretty much two heads, one body, four hands, two legs. It's really bizzare, and it was mostly sad really. Until the ending of the segment, which truly just made me sick, and i am somebody that watched tons of graphic movies, i am not going to spoiler, it's really bad, and really graphic depiction, Colorized.
Third segment which seemed the weakest, is about apparently dead people's blood being useable on alive people. During the movie, there's theses prolonged scenes. That serve no purpose, transitions, of dots, and randomness, and there's this chick that serves no purpose, she's sitting there, and then she begins eating with hands, it just is really confusing. However, the movie does seem to have purpose, and i understand why the movie is in the end of the iceberg, dye to the second part, where you see actual children struggling to survive, and that end scene of the second part, still is horrifying to think of.
Again, i did not have any subtitles when watching this, so.
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