“The world has changed in just a few years. Hermanis did not accept these changes in Europe. Returning to Riga, he was no longer able to accurately fit into the context… Hermanis’s last outstanding production was “Brodsky/Baryshnikov” (2015), and stagnation followed.”
Thus, the critic leaves behind the sensational play “Gorbachev”, in which Yevgeny Mironov and Chulpan Khamatova shone. But Neatkarīgā, in the person of Bence Latkovskis, polemicizes with the negative perception of the creator: “Alvis Hermanis is not only the most famous Latvian director (in fact, the only one with wide international recognition), but he is also still the same. Tickets for Hermanis’s productions are sold out in less than an hour (this depends on the speed of processing the data of the ticket sales platform). This is still a well-known indicator of “getting into context”.
As for Europe and its values, B. Latkovskis points out the “rapid increase in immigration, which, under the guise of war refugees, began following Putin’s Russia’s active intervention in the military actions in Syria in 2015.” “This wave of immigrants, which, thanks to the “open door” policy, overflowed Europe, fundamentally changed the attitude towards multiculturalism, diversity and other dogmas of leftist ideology, which had previously seemed unshakable.”
“The left still does not recognize these changes. It is still considered unacceptable to express dissatisfaction with the sellers of Prada handbags in the capitals of Europe, but all artistic bitterness must be directed once morest patriarchy, nationalism, capitalism and its offshoots. It is necessary to adhere to the ideological cliché in which blacks are good, but whites are bad; the poor are good, the rich are bad; women are good, men are bad; homosexuals are good, heterosexuals are bad.”
“Hermanis publicly acknowledged the moment when he had a turning point in his attitude towards this ‘correct context’,” the publicist continues. “It happened when he staged Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘Heart of a Dog’ in Zurich, Switzerland, and at some rehearsal he suddenly and unexpectedly discovered that the acting troupe perceived the play’s images from him completely differently. To the actors there, Shvonder, dressed in a leather jacket, seemed good, but Professor Preobrazhensky, in a white doctor’s jacket, seemed bad…”
“Today, this Marxist-Leninist worldview is no longer called communist, but rather progressive or even liberal, thereby removing the long “loop” of communist crimes from the popularizers of these stereotypical clichés. The “progressive” or “liberal” view of the world really sounds much better than the communist or Marxist one. However, the essence of the matter does not change.”
That is why, according to B. Latkovskis, director Hermanis “had to stop working in Western Europe, which has not yet fully recovered from this society-destroying disease of leftism.” The same goes for the war in Ukraine: “The future belongs to the strong. This means not a victory in a university debate on social sciences, but a victory on the battlefield.”
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2024-07-06 14:58:09
