Review “2000 meters to Andriivka”: Slow from Ukraine front lines

We know from the main headlines that small technologies such as drones have turned the war, which urgently affects Ukraine’s ability to stay in a bruising battle for its presence against Russia. But this is done with the same thing to cover the war as well, especially the type of fleet, which we can now say the Ukrainian director MSTYLAV CHRNOV is the master.

The follow -up of the Associated Press correspondent for “Oscar -winning Mariopol”, which made the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of a city under the siege, is another intimate perspective on the destruction of his country. But this time from the front lines of Ukraine’s anti -Ukraine pressure for 2023, specifically the nightmare of one brigade’s nightmare to liberate the town of its Russian job. In an intimate heart relationship-with the permission of cameras and drones and the relationship of the fox between a citizen soldier and a citizen journalist-“2000 meters to Andrieva” is an unparalleled war novel.

Immediately, Cernov defines chaos in the war with Bodd Cam shots from a Ukrainian soldier named Peru. It is a bove hide that captures how it can become a calm characteristic of jokes and cigarettes quickly, the enemy fire, screaming and artillery shells that fly. A decline is abandoned when the armored transport company stumbles in the family. In the stampede that followed, the comrades were injured and we hear the resignation, “That’s all for me.” Suddenly, this opinion looks like less than a trench but a grave.

No wonder that the measured Cernov’s novel looks dark. The speculative awe was replaced by “Mariupol” with a fact -based fatigue. He and his colleague Alex Babenko pressed themselves in a one -mile battalion to restore Andrevka, near a Russian stronghold. However, the path is a thin strip of forests that hide the Russians in the trenches, fortified on each side through open minefields.

Also, “Forest” seems to be generous: the stripped trees appear to be broken, indicating that the open arid lands instead of the battlefield that can provide the cover. They have already seen a lot of destruction, and by the end of the movie, they will have seen more. Chernov tells us that one of the soldiers described this unreasonable country like “landing on a planet where everything tries to kill you.”

Footage of the first person with the progress of the group is breath and density with fire, screaming, and the feeling that every inch will get hard on its way to cultivating this Ukrainian flag in Andrieva, which appears to be a drone. (The film was divided into chapters indicating the gain of meter.)

However, during the long Foxhole waiting period, when the only visible smoke is a cigarette, Cereneov’s gentle inquiries outside the camera of Vidia men (starting from young people hopefully from it to a very new 40 -year), provokes optimistic smoking, to installation, on difficult. Then comes the Cernov’s voice to take a peek on the hammer quietly in the future: which of these men will die in subsequent battles or may not have been found at all. This is strange things.

There was never a war documentary such as “2000 meters in Andrevka”, and it decreases as is the case with the fluctuations between danger and blessed boredom, and mixing upper shots (including a suicide bombardment) and underground scenery like a circular epic. The war is hell, but the survival of Ukraine is very important. However, lack of sensory appears to be fixed. “Why are you here?” A Ukrainian soldier barks on a Russian arrested, stretches, “I don’t know why we are here.”