As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
In his hometown in the Ural Mountains, fun-loving Pasha works as a nonconformist teacher at the same primary school he attended as a child. However, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine changed everything. Suddenly the school and community he loved transformed from a place of education and self-expression to one of militarization and state ideology. Soon, his own students and their family members are recruited to fight, and Pasha must ask himself what one person can do. Filmed secretly over two years, Mr. Nobody Against Putin is an unforgettable portrait of life in Russia today and the impossible choices citizens face when the country they love is in the hands of a ruler who demands it become something they cannot accept.






就不會一直問
我可以做點什麼
所謂的社會化
某種程度上
就是一場集體達成默契的表演
這種表演
在和平年代裡
頂多算是鄉愿
可一旦進入戰爭年代
就會迅速變得扭曲
甚至下作
在這樣的環境裡成為一個反對者
說需要勇氣
未免太俗氣
說需要智慧
又顯得有些居高臨下
在我看來
成為一個反對者最重要的
是體面
只有維持誠懇
維持包容
維持同理心
一個人才可能真正擁有體面
而當你以體面的姿態
去反對那些虛假的謊言
你無需標榜自己的勇氣與智慧
你自然會散發出反對者的美感
因为被要求拍摄爱国教育的内容,反而得到机会记录一些些真实的画面
#hippocampal_sketch
#neodb
电影主角所在的学校位于一个环境污染严重(人均寿命38岁)且经济相当落后的小镇,但观察学校学生的生活,至少在俄乌战争之前是远比我经历过的党国学生生活自由的,就主角自己的这个岗位活动策划员加校园摄影师我就从没见过,而且整个电影记录的这个学校里组织少先队、军训、军队到校宣传的过程,居然是战争之前俄罗斯学校里不存在——而我和我一起观影的小伙伴在党国受教育经历里见怪不怪的东西。原来我们的正常遭遇是别人的战事状态啊,又发出了这样的感慨。
映后Q&A提到主角现在人在布拉格,靠制作这部影片的工资生活,准备申请政治庇护,加半颗星祝他一切顺利。