OPINION: Was the release of this film last year a clue that Russia planned war with Ukraine?
The doublespeak in Russian media is that there is no war, that the Bucha massacre was staged by Ukrainians and that Russians and Ukrainians are united in liberating Ukraine from NATO and nationalists.
The Novozhilov family, on their way to Russia, get caught up in this mayhem. The borders are closed. There is no way out. The father, Vlad Novozhilov , is an Afghan War veteran with no appetite to carry a gun again. He enlists as a paramedic driver to help with the fatalities. Young men, high on the success of the February Maidan protests in Kyiv — a protest against the government forging closer ties with Russia, rather than the European Union — are getting ready to take up arms, although it is not clear who they want to fight.Film critic Dmitri Sosnovski, from the government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, called Solntsepyok "a heartbreaking film" that:
In fact, the Ukrainian parliament in 2014 called for early elections and the formation of an interim unity government. They granted full amnesty to protesters and sought to impeach then-President Yanukovych, who fled to Russia. For a government overthrow, this was rather orderly. Solntsepyok's propaganda is designed to confuse the audience, entertain with action and dramatic moral choices and overwhelm. The audience is constantly emotionally manipulated.
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