Masha Regina by Vadim Levental

Author:Vadim Levental [Levental, Vadim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Irrevent, Love, St. Petersburg, Sex, Youth, Coming-of-age, Art, Fiction, Russia, Film
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

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The Event Horizon

Save, which was filmed, edited, and audio engineered in five and a half months (Masha battled with the actors, had knock-down-drag-outs with the producer, and spilled liters of coffee in the editing suite), is a film about a young woman whose life is saved at a key moment—she’s choosing between three men: which one gets the yes?—as if it were a computer game. The storyline tracks her fate until her first collapse (mutual hatred, you ruined my whole life! –Just look at yourself, look at what you’ve become!) and then the “return to last saved” button kicks in. The heroine chooses another man, endures yet another new collapse, and returns again to choose the third man so she can spend her third life coming to yet another collapse. Game over. Cast. Masha, who’d never played computer games, most likely knew they always end with credits, just like the movies.

It was right after the release of Save that Masha happened to give the interview to Diva and explain herself about homosexuality: certain frenzied biddies had decided the film was about them, about how you don’t have to choose between different men, about how men are all jackasses. As Masha answered questions from a 50-year-old woman with expressively desirous masculine eyes and close-cropped purple hair, she was staggered at how wrongheadedly her simple thought could be understood: the lady softly demanded the same answers she’d already decided to hear (…but yet you didn’t depict one single positive male character in the film, why’s that?) and thus, it seems, she also didn’t understand that the film she liked so much was about the impossibility, on principle, of a different screenplay, either with females, males, or little green men.

At some point in time (that point is impossible to either foresee or acknowledge in the present, one can only think back to it, exactly like the moment when human life explodes; the Big Bang of post-natal screams was always already there), and so, at some point in time, human life inevitably begins imploding and it’s no longer possible to overcome the gravitation of death: no matter what you do, no matter what buttons you push, the singularity of full and definitive solitude is inevitable and it’s possible to guess that moment has already passed, based on the ever-accelerating spiral rotation of all the exact same events, places, tasks, connections, and people (in this, by the way, lies the secret of the “small world” effect of a city, Europe, and the whole planet), and that’s exactly why there’s nothing surprising about the fact that one day Roma, who’s earning extra money on one of the Lenfilm Studio’s never-ending series, will hear actresses on the set discussing Regina’s Save and one of them will say, as she tucks her hair behind her ear in an offhand way: Regina? I went to school with her, and all gazes will turn to her but Dasha (surprise!) will look straight at Roma because, actually, she’d taken an immediate liking to the manly cameraman.

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