Council 2021 ❄️
What I read, watched and listened to in 2020 and what I can recommend to you
Books
Vita nostra: Working on mistakes
Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
- a great book by great authors. This is an extension, you need to read the first book first. About how to find yourself in life and not pay for it more than you have. The ending of the second book is... cleansing, so to speak.
My article Work on mistakes
Fighter
Dmitry Bykov
Blog article: It turned out to be a cool fighter, it managed to destroy many even before it was assembled
In short, this is a book about what the Soviet Union was... who was at the helm of it and how this harvest of souls took place. A brilliant book written from the diary notes of pilots.
21:3
Alexey Pekhov
Original picture: open source
The twenty-first wave of the pandemic, quarantine is so familiar that it has become an integral part of every person’s life. Among thousands of masked people, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a new face, especially if you steal these very faces...
An excellent story, you can read, listen, very short and well written.
Also published list the most my favorite stories.
In fact, I read more, but there were more stories... LiveLib reviews
Movies
Dear comrades!
Andrey Konchalovsky
An excellent film about how a peaceful demonstration was cleared out and about what happens when the authorities don’t listen to the people and do everything the way they want. The beginning of the end of the scoop. Vysotskaya simply played the role brilliantly. Events in Novocherkassk 1962 (under Khrushchev).
Sulfur
Lana to the government
Psychological thriller based on the story by Dmitry Glukhovsky. A short story about how sometimes there are things worse than death - for example, life in Norilsk. Funny, but still.
Well done and the script is cool. Started watching the short film after the series Melts (also Glukhovsky). This is of course a very strong author, but even metaphorically they give me an unsatisfying answer. The spiral of history is cool, but how to break it is the question.
I looked further Letters from a Dead Man (1986), I don’t advise you. I couldn’t prepare myself, and finding the motivation for you to watch... is very difficult. The film is about if humanity decides to go to nuclear war, what will actually remain of it. The film is still Soviet, so you can trust it in this regard... I think it will be so (no need).
I looked further Other People's Letters (1975), this is cool. The Soviet Union, school and life lessons... really, not many people will want to, but the movie is very lamp and you can watch it for fun and enjoyment, and then think carefully about it if want to you can.
Well, beyond the hype...
Cruella
Craig Gillespie
The film is excellent, Disney took someone else's script, gave them money and adapted it to their story. At the same time, the author of the original script was able to further develop her idea, Disney was able to tell the story of one of their anti-heroines, and Emma Stone was able to dress in drop-dead dresses and act out 10/10 scenes perfectly. I also wrote a blog article: “Don’t make an idol for yourself” review of the film Cruella (Cruella) 2021
That's it, okay, let's pretend that I didn't advise you the best anime that I've watched in the last n years of my life - Created in the Abyss. But this is really a plot-breaking thing.
Games
Even though it came out in 2020, I first played it on YouTube and in 2021, at the end of the year, I returned to it myself
Cyberpunk 2077
Great game, underrated story, and even at the end of 2021 there were a whole bunch of bugs and shortcomings. Very sad :(
I don’t know if the situation will somehow change, but I put this game aside again. There are plans to go through it again, but only after a couple more packs with fixes.
It was also quite a good revelation
Inscryption
a dark card adventure divided into several acts. In this game, defeat is also part of the planned path.
