Dissatisfied with everything in the world, the police kicked the corpse lying next to the railway tracks several times and was already calling a hearse, as the corpse stood up relatively cheerfully and turned out to be a rather lively Mikhail Shtapich. (Ivan Yankovsky) – a young man who has recently disappeared, leads a rather dull and purposeless existence, and finds himself on the rails after being beaten and robbed while drunk while carrying alimony to his ex-wife. Stumbling into the entrance, Shtapich snatches an advertisement with his own face from the door and stumbles upon the volunteers of the search and rescue team who are actually looking for him. Word for word – and about a day later Shtapich says the saintly one: “Can I come with you?” And before he even has time to remove the bandages from his broken head, he himself begins to search for the missing.
The “Volunteer Playlist” series is not very similar to the book of the same name written by Ms. Havko Shtapich (actually Artem Lyashenko) after four years as part of the LizaAlert association. At the beginning of his text, he tells that he came to look for the missing because of “****stvo”. [промискуитета]and then calls itself “****com” [сволочью]It basically writes—adjacent to Palahniuk, Welsh, Thompson, and Bukowski—in the Alternative series as if it wanted to go under the orange cover, but it missed decades a bit.
The serial incarnation of the novel avoids this kind of Limonovism in every possible way. Transforming from an incomprehensible Mrshavko into an intelligible Mikhail and acting a little more restrained than the book prototype, the hero, in one way or another, remains “****com”. [сволочью], but they simply try to ignore it by presenting it as a certain norm of life. Yes, he had a tantrum at his ex-wife’s doorstep on an ordinary Tuesday, near death of drunkenness. As a result, neither fish nor meat comes out, just like Yankovsky’s hero: it seems to have been found, but officially his research cannot be called a very smooth, if not toothless, achievement compared to the original source. It’s too dirty for the whole family to watch. This, of course, isn’t in the show’s benefit: you may have different attitudes towards the language of the paper Playlist, but unlike the one onscreen, it pretty well pitched the idea that people were looking for missing people. many roads have lost themselves.
However, the adaptation is more like a volunteer procedure on duty, like a civilian detective with rather chaotic drama in the Russian-serial sense. After the book, “Volunteer’s Playlist” aims to write portraits of people who are ready for any reason to wander through dense forests and swamps at night. But instead, it sloppy sticks a few serial bits into the main show that’s exciting. A pile of obviously unnecessary lines (to be honest, I don’t care who is sleeping with who in the platoon behind someone’s back), firstly, it just increases the timing of the series, and secondly, it doesn’t add anything. As a result, the project visibly extinguishes the initial interest of the “Volunteer Playlist” in terms of meaning. But it doesn’t kill the charm to the end: It’s a very successful ad, at least for Lisa Alert – literally. No matter how strange and unpleasant these people and their reasons for doing what they do, they would not otherwise be called heroes. They may deserve a better series than The Volunteer Playlist, but the current version is quite a recognition.
The playlist, by the way, is good – both on paper and on the screen.