This is CHILLING. As it's meant to be. I'm still not sure about where I land, depending on how he extradites himself from this situation he's now arguably causing, or at least participating in, and, like, the doc is out, so the damage is done... how is it going to impact people here?
Shivers 😱
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Yeah, it's different seeing it. That's why this is arguably Important, I think, and it won an Oscar, and people were talking about it, so I feel like that's the consensus. I'm a bit skeptical, but we'll see how they land this bird.
Some of this shit, I am just shocked at the specificities of.
Like, I knew they had Russian kids do bullshit, militaristic make-work exercises and competitions, but actually SEEING the 2 boys that took 1st & 2nd in state-sponsored GRENADE THROWING is mind-bending 😵💫
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They're being served very poorly by their government/state, at an age when they really need all the support and encouragement and actual, legitimate help they can get. By the way, we're doing the exact same shit here on a macro-level, it just looks and feels slightly different than this.
This is what the kids look like after that little nugget of headshot wisdom 😬
I mean, maybe. There's a cut, so who knows. But #MrNobodyAgainstPutin is suggesting that this is their reaction to that charming story about why not to grab your helmet.
My heart BREAKS for these kids, y'all
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It is FASCINATING to watch kids, like, gossip and be kids during this school assembly during which they have land mines passed to them, and have a bunch of weird, gross dudes yammering at them about headshots in crossfires. But they're still goofing around, just very, very cautiously and flatly.
This is objectively a wild, fuckin thing to say to kids, and, in fact, pretty much everything I've seen anyone say officially to these kids is unhinged, lunatic shit. "The most important thing, if you end up in a crossfire, is..."
"... never clasp your helmet!" These are elementary school children, mind you.
"It will break your neck if you get shot in the head." WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, DUDE? Also, none of the kids are listening at all.
Omg, this is so bleak. The #Wagner Mercs (?) show up at this PRIMARY SCHOOL, pass around model land mines to the children, and then tell them, "The 1st thing you have to remember is not to clasp your helmet. It'll break your neck if you get shot in the head."
Wut 😳
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There's sort of the narrative implication that Pasha might win this award, and he lists off some qualities that are supposed to determine it that he clearly has, but, like, he's a seditious, self-destructive lunatic, and everyone in town talks about him. He was never getting this award, lol. But maybe we're dumb enough to think he might, and this is played for tension.
Yeah, of course it's this guy. It's Pavel Abdulmanov, the Ichabod Crane "hope they remember me as fun" dipshit from earlier, the party apparatchik.
This is fucking unreal. You guys have to see this 😵💫
It's the dude from earlier. This shit is next-level bonkers, yo.
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Pasha has a realization: "I might be a self-destructive person." You think?
Same, bro 😆
I'd even say I definitely am, though I try to curb it. It's interesting he drops this little tidbit, though, because my argument a second ago was that he's being reckless with other peoples' safety, too. I wonder how much that comes up.
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I presume Pasha expatriates or something by the end of this? But I also presume these people all still have to live under the regime? Idk, I'm not that knowledgeable about any of this, but from where I'm sitting currently, it seems like Pasha set up a camera, and then deliberately sat away from it to make the other teachers 'forget' about it, and then prompted them with dangerous, seditious talk. It's talk I obviously agree with, but this endangers them, yeah? Idk. I'm starting to feel uneasy about it, but I have no idea how this film or the real world has dealt with these people yet.
If I have an issue with #MrNobodyAgainstPutin, it's on display in this teacher staff meeting that Pasha sorta surreptitiously films (clearly, at least some are aware of the camera, though Pasha doesn't appear to be holding it); this is arguably irresponsible, lobbing incendiary questions & filming 🤔
"When did we start marching in the hallways?" Real talk, though, this is brutally depressing and bleak to see. But he chooses to make light of it to the kids, by saying...
"Is Severus Snape our new headmaster?" Like, Snape was headmaster. Did the Hogwarts students have to march while he was in charge? Idk, I can't recall. And now is, like, the worst time possible to put out a call for Harry Potter knowledge, lol. Yeah, I know! I don't like her, either. But I still went to the midnight releases of the books and read them all the day they were released, even the absurdly-long-for-no-reason ones.
Is Snape associated with marching? 🤔
Maybe the Russian #HarryPotter is different... YES, I KNOW! We've all fully turned on that awful c*nt J.K. Rowling, and I wouldn't, like, give HP to my kids to read, if I had any, but c'mon, they're still cultural touchpoints.
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This is laughable. It's very low-energy but high-sinister. Like, just because this guy doesn't move fast or good doesn't mean he won't do terrible things to children. I have an instinctual reaction to him, like, 'keep that dude away from kids,' but here he is, addressing a forced kids' march. Great stuff. Again, I'm on no high horse here. I'm just appalled by the specificities I didn't already know, and how they affect this cast of people who now seem very real to me.
They have this absolute cartoon mobster wearing some kind of religious getup and reading off cards to the children in the flattest, Cyrillic tone you'd ever hope to hear. #Russia seems like a dictatorial horrorshow, and btw, we're not so different as you'd hope 😬
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For context, while this guy is filming all this stuff, Russia invades Ukraine, starts drafting men and boys, and Putin unilaterally commands not only that there be an "all-Russia children's movement," but that he will be its head, and here he is, addressing all the nation's schoolchildren. Absolutely unhinged, dictatorial nonsense. It really upsets me, and this is such a different look at this than I usually get.
It is positively next-level to actually witness #Putin addressing his nation's kids, mandatorily, on a projector screen, from behind the shoulders of the kids affected. This is grotesque.
Not #MrNobodyAgainstPutin, obviously. The behavior of the regime it's criticizing. The doc is great 🤩
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Now, now, I know what you’re thinking: boring.
But Kay is having a lot of fun with #MrNobodyAgainstPutin, even though the subject matter isn’t always fun.
Getting into the feels about having been a #teacher, etc. Worth a read, esp just to synopsize the #film. Like CliffNotes 🤓
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"You love your motherland out of obligation." False, and I said so all the time as a kid. I got dragged to the principal's office for it constantly in THIS country. I can't imagine how I'd have struggled in Russia. I speak my mind too much for any of that shit.
"Like how you love your mother." My hand would have shot up. "What if you don't love your mother? I hate mine." And probably, that wouldn't go over well. I'd have also called this guy a dumb, Ichabod-Crane-looking-bitch-ass punk bitch to his face, and he'd have hated that. I've have wound up in the Gulag, probably.
I hate my mother 😆
I'd make a terrible Russian schoolchild. What is there to guilt or lever me with?
This intimate peek into a #Russian state propaganda classroom lecture is compelling & mind-blowing. This guy is the weediest, little twat I've ever seen address a class.
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![Here's how the lecture starts, after he looks at notes, for, like, forever first [hands folded, like an absolute twat]: "It's so crucial to eliminate dissenting views..." And what kind of wild shit is that to try to teach children anyway? Eliminate?! I could even get behind 'confronting' dissenting views, but the whole prima facie idea of 'eliminating' opposing sentiment is beyond the pale. I mean, I wasn't totally ignorant of what Russia is up to, but still... it's shocking. Most shocking is that this guy hopes his kids will remember him as "fun," when he's probably the prototypical/archetypal example of "not-fun person" in all of their lives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svg6uktunzvrvsh6xmnalxp2/bafkreicegr7kphhkinhp4pkc7bf7xai752mzsil7thxu6bjyxfnklmf2ti)
Here's how the lecture starts, after he looks at notes, for, like, forever first [hands folded, like an absolute twat]: "It's so crucial to eliminate dissenting views..." And what kind of wild shit is that to try to teach children anyway? Eliminate?! I could even get behind 'confronting' dissenting views, but the whole prima facie idea of 'eliminating' opposing sentiment is beyond the pale. I mean, I wasn't totally ignorant of what Russia is up to, but still... it's shocking. Most shocking is that this guy hopes his kids will remember him as "fun," when he's probably the prototypical/archetypal example of "not-fun person" in all of their lives.
Riveting lecture, bro, lol. Who knows if this footage is precisely that same classroom at the same time, but the way it's constructed is fucking hilarious, and reminds me of how I got fired from the middle-school newspaper. Ask me and I'll tell you that story sometime.
OMG THIS #MOVIE IS RUTHLESS, I LOVE IT 🤣
After Admin Pavel says he hopes he's remembered by his students as "a fun person," it cuts to his lecture, & the kids are NOT into it.
This is truly brilliant & subversive #filmmaking, in a way that excites me. #MrNobodyAgainstPutin special! 🤩
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So fucking funny. I don't know how Pasha isn't laughing as he asks this shit, knowing how it's going to be used. "How will your students remember you?" And this guy is really acting, mind you, because he thinks this is for state propaganda porpoises, so he, like, chuckles wistfully and looks off into the middle distance. This is WILD content.
"As a fun person, I hope." The fucking ER Party bureaucrat who's in charge of making the kids more patriotic and state-brainwashed hopes his kids will remember him as fun. I don't know, man. I certainly won't!
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I am dyyying. This is perhaps the world's least-fun human being, & he hopes his students will remember him as a "fun person."
Bad news, bro. They're going to remember you as the traitor who got Punk'd in that anti-Putin #film 😆
#MrNobodyAgainstPutin is INCREDIBLE. You must see!
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I mean, this is really dangerous stuff, and I presume part of the film's denouement will be how they get this guy to safety after he does all this shit. This is wild, but I love it. This dipshit, hollow-cheeked ER goon starts naming his 'favorite politicians,' and it's an unbroken series of war criminals that would have been hanged in The Hague, to a man.
Like, this is hilarious, because he sets this guy up to look like a fucking idiot, which he is. But how's he going to get out of consequences for this? Curious. I'm invested, though, no doubt about that.
#MrNobodyAgainstPutin is, like, so funny and subversive. It's kind of like #Borat, except the guy is playing with his life (not that Sacha Baron Cohen doesn't also do that).
Here, he prompts this Party ghoul to name his 'favorite politicians,' then shows why they're all war criminals 😆
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The way it's edited here makes it seem like this is literally his first thought after getting the offer, and it's so funny, because it gives the (probably true) impression that he got one, slight piece of encouragement, and he was like, "I'm not some dumb school videographer anymore! I'm a filmmaker now!" Hilarious.
I DIED laughing when he said, "Now, I'm a film director," bc every dickhead that gets put in this position (including, once, me; I've also written and/or directed a couple of low-stakes club theatre productions) immediately gets an inflated sense of their own vision and self-worth, and the way this is set up makes it so funny and charming. I'm sure it's mostly true, too, and it's funny that this guy signed off on that choice.
Omg, so the context for this is that Pasha's resigned, but he gets an offer from a European #film production company to use his footage as part of a #documentary (what will become #MrNobodyAgainstPutin), & it goes to his head IMMEDIATELY as he has to go un-resign 😆
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I know, I said I wouldn't live-tweet this, and to be fair, this is way less than I normally do, bc there isn't nearly as much to say if I'm not analyzing the 'story,' which is much harder to do here. It's, like, actually his story, so there's no real critiquing to be done, just about how it's told, and I am loving that. This lady is a hoot, in just a couple of seconds of screentime, giving what I read as a very skeptical, "are you for fucking real?" look at a camera setup.
There are lots of fun, quick moments in this, like this woman making a kind-of-inscrutable (Mona-Lisa-like?) expression at the camera.
I don't know what she's saying, exactly, but I love it.
#MrNobodyAgainstPutin is surprising me with how much fun it is. Heartbreaking, too, but also fun!
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Sometimes, I like to clip screenshots, bc I know I'll get a lot of use out of them. I can only envision using this ironically, tbh, and even then, when? But it's funny to me just to take it out of context and imagine how it might be used.
Boy, Russia really is like a parallel universe. I can't imagine anyone ever saying this about an Instagram post over here:
"The #Instagram post I randomly responded to has paid off."
Can you imagine? 😆
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Seriously, Nebraska pops up every couple of minutes, like clockwork, which totally makes sense, given the way the guy is presenting his life, and the way he's purporting to film it. It's all artifice, of course, so who knows what all is "real," but it makes total sense given his loneliness and close relationship with Nebraska that we'd see the adorable, little scamp constantly, and we do.
Yeah, this is very much what I imagine when I imagine, like, rural Russia. This makes sense to me, but is still an interesting and fairly veracious look at something I don't see all that often.
Nebraska gets a treat (awesome; love that the puppy keeps showing up, & it speaks well of the filmmaker), then we get the very what-I-think-of-when-I-think-of-Russia rural-industrial vista behind Pasha's home.
It would be impossible to overstate how fascinating #MrNobodyAgainstPutin is 🤓
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You should totally see this. It's *fascinating* stuff, even down to what he chooses to include about himself. It's a rich text, and it's real-life subject matter that's not usually dissected in this intensive a fashion, for obvious reasons.
I wish the caption were paired with a better image, but it's just Pasha walking down stairs as he says, reading from his resignation letter, "Even a guy like me should have some principles," about not wanting to support the regime or Ukraine War.
Powerful stuff 😤
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Evgenia is a pretty name, I think. I also think Eugenia is a pretty name, though.
This kind of made me chuckle, though I'm also in tears from how sad this all is. Kids are resilient and funny, though. I know that from being a teacher myself. One of my favorite jobs, and one of the most rewarding.
The Russian schoolkids (at Karabash Primary School in the Urals) are low-key p funny off-the-cuff. Pasha tells them that the teacher is being forced to give the lecture, and one of the kids pipes up, "Blink twice if you're being forced."
Witty kids, but bleak situation 😬
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Omg, he's got the sweetest, little half-cocked, Han Solo grin, and the floppiest ears. Nebraska is an immediate hit over here.
They even threw the #DogSky folks a bone, with an adorable and prominent cameo of Pasha's #dachshund, inexplicably named Nebraska 🤩
I love Nebraska already. What a sweetheart!
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"Here, I have 427 books..." the fact that he knows exactly how many books he has kind of broke my heart a little bit.
But then I kind of chuckled when he said, "All carefully arranged in color order." Yeah, I saw that, lol.
This detail about Pasha is both deeply-charming and very-unsurprising. He has exactly 427 books, all arranged on his bookshelf in "color order."
That tracks 😆
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He's a very charming nerd, I feel, and I don't think he'd mind me saying so.
I always feel super erudite and cosmopolitan when I watch a foreign-language documentary. It's, like, "Ooh, aren't I smart?"
😆
I do keep forgetting I don't speak Russian, though, and looking away and missing dialogue.
#MrNobodyAgainstPutin very compelling. You should watch.
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I'm not live-tweeting this. Just pointing out that it's interesting, so far.
There are some real vibey shots in it. I like the early tone of this #film.
It's fascinating subject matter, obviously.
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