Bumer: Film vtoroy (2006)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Pyotr Buslov

Writers:

Kim Belov (writer)
Pyotr Buslov (writer)

Release Date:

7 March 2006 (Kazakhstan)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bumer (2003). Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends...

Plot Keywords:

Bimmer

Cast

Vladimir Vdovichenkov	...	Kostyan 'The Cat'
Andrei Merzlikin	...	Dimon 'The Scalded'
Svetlana Ustinova	...	Dashka
Nikolay Olyalin	...	Ded Ilya
Aleksandr Golubev	...	Kolya
Aleksandr Tsurkan	...	Oksana's Father
Feliks Antipov	...	Uncle Misha
Yuri Kolokolnikov
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sergei Gorobchenko	...	Petya 'The Frame'
Darya Mishchenko	...	Oksanka
Lyubov Omelchenko
Alexander Seridenko	...	Rezak
Viktoriya Smirnova

Also Known As:

Бумер. Фильм второй (Russia)
Bumer 2 (Russia) (working title)
Bumer 2: Ray na zemle (Russia) (working title)
Heaven on Earth (International: English title)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

Kinokompaniya CTB

Movie Connections:

Follows Bumer (2003)

Who's gonna stay here? -- The cops!

I think that is the main idea of both Bumer movies.

Cops and KGB are the ultimate evil. Both movies send a message that one can not be a free and honest man/woman in Russia, without having any problems with cops. Well, of course, in the first movie, the four guys were just a regular extortionist gang… apparently, not very close to the concepts of "honesty" and "freedom", but the movie still sent a message that they were "good guys". Rama said a counter-argument: "Such are not us, such is the life around us." (1st movie).

"The life has changed" (Dimon, 2nd movie). Dimon's life has changed because he chose not to mess with cops, but rather to deal with them by their rules. That's what most of us in this country actually do every day. We don't know about laws and *beep* like that: we only know that cops are people who really love cash and are endowed with power to do anything. No law is need if you're a friend of cops, and no law will protect you if you're not.

Having earned money, he saves his friend from the jail by bribing the cops. Dimon's new life is controversial. "I don't know what I would do in a situation like that" – Cot said. After an accusation like that, Dimon thought that probably he was not completely right, although by doing what he did, he saved his own life and later a few years in the life of his friend (Cot had a 15-year sentence for armed robbery)… He realized that he had to sacrifice a large part of his honesty to this. Saving Cot's life a few minutes later, he probably restored his honesty, at least in the eyes of Cot.

Dashka is a also a controversial character. Although she's a little bitch blackmailer, her victim is a large piece of that cop and KGB *beep* (some cop chief). So, eventually, she's depicted as a warrior of truth. I won't tell you how Dashka is related to Cot (watch the movie, it's the drama and love story part of it), I'll just tell you that the two finally decided that their free souls will not be able to survive in this country, and they decided to leave it. Dashka: "And who's gonna stay here?" Cot: "-- The cops!" They wanted to escape. But the cops got them. At least they killed Cot. Dashka escaped. Cot has joined his fellows in the gangstas' paradise. Dashka went to a paradise on earth (she stole some cash and went out of the country).

Again, what's left here… The cops. It's a message to all those who live in this country. To think about it. From that point of view, the movie indeed is naturalistic. A story like that could hardly happen in reality, but the message it sends is a real one. We're not a free country. That's very important to understand.