What to expect
Fridrikh Ermler uses subjective montage, urban architecture, and bodily recognition to make historical change a problem of perception. The film asks what it means to wake into a future that has already interpreted one’s past.
How to ease in
Stay with Filimonov’s point of view. Early discontinuity reflects damaged memory; later confusion comes from comparing imperial-era habits with the reorganised city before him.
Heads-up
A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.
Filimonov remembers in fragments while the city presents itself as a completed explanation. I like the uncertainty between recovering a self and being recruited into a new story about that self.
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Filimonov remembers in fragments while the city presents itself as a completed explanation. I like the uncertainty between recovering a self and being recruited into a new story about that self.
— Momo
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