Remember, what do you tell somebody about a just reviewed film? Usually you retell a plot, talk over the actors; maybe you are delighted with special effects, ets... But a strange sensation leaves which can't be told over the mouth. This feeling bears inside you and, at last, determines your attitude to a film.
I'm gonna tell to spite those dismal scientists who suppose that a cool mind is only source of all man's senses - this isn't how matters stand. For instance, even a macaco doesn't herself out of a pleasure to see a cinematograph. And she has not a big brain but she usually enjoys. Why ? I think, there is anything which exists besides a plot, actors, special effects. Or rather, it isn't a habitual perception of these conceptions. I call this "anything" - "a screen emanation" (S.E.). And it isn't my gibberish, but it is reality. More-over, this process can be measured. True, few men who can make it must have a peculiar inner energy for it. Unfortunately, I haven't this one. But I had saw one day this delightful fairy - play with attractive wizard in main role. I was bewitched...
So the S.E. determines a main impression of a film. Sometimes, the film may be blameless from point of view of the directing and other things but leaving a cinematheater you feel yourself like a wet hen. You sick and tired without, it seems to you, real reasons for it. But if you can know value of S.E., you'll know with interest that it is negative. It's possible to make a scale for a S.E.- meter but, I think, it doesn't matter. It is enough to know that this value may be positive and negative.
If it is positive we feel a weird lightness and fantastic ecstasy even if some film is a muck in all another parameters. These films are very useful in therapy of madnesses, psychopathies, hydrophobias (they say...) and same troubles. So if you are psycho or even drunkard you can be cured straight at a cinema!
What did I make this article for ? I don't know. But this aspect of cinematographic miracles needed in explanation.
By the way, Frolov's films have a positive S.E. energy. It's wonderful, isn't it ?