![]() There will be few surprises at the carefully choreographed National People's Congress, analysts say, with thousands of politicians flown in from across China to vote on laws and personnel changes pre-approved by the ruling Communist Party (CCP). "Overcoming great difficulties and challenges, we succeeded in maintaining overall stable economic performance," it added. But anyway, if you wanna see a joyful, funny, a bit strange, experimental, but a bit childish olympic movie then "O Sport" looks perfect."Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, we carried out Covid-19 response and pursued economic and social development in an effective and well-coordinated way," the government report, delivered by outgoing Premier Li Keqiang at the opening of the National People's Congress Sunday, said. Some parts are too long, another ones too short. Third big issue was very common among Soviet movie makers: editing is sloppy, lacks focus and rhythm. It creates a noise which starts annoy pretty soon. "Oo Sport." is filled with dozens of pop, rock and easy listening pieces. While "Eight' had superb music by Henri Mancini. The narration performed by Juri's brother Nikolai is filling the movie totally with his information and it makes watching soon somewhat exhausting. Here are the problems rising: there are too much material taken and Ozerov probably tried to press every lovely piece into the movie and it makes the segments very short and the movie too light and flat. The unique element of the movie are the short animations about ancient olympic games. Ozerov has added some more pieces, for example about social life of athletes, also the cultural programme, and short reportages of random events. But there is a new and very good segment "The Trainers" about hilarious show of coaches. There is no special "The Losers" segment, but frames of failing athletes are put inside the other segments. Decathlon is replaced with collage several track competitions but the segment is edited the same grotesque way like Milos Forman did in 1972, mixing competition's funny elements wit frames of folk dancing. From the main themes on "Eight" we can see six here: the beginning (including the huge opening ceremony in Moscow) running (but not only 100 meters, others events too) pole vault (plus high jump) weightlifting marathon women in olympics. It seems like Ozerov tries to make something like "Eight" but better. But same time both olympics were carefully prepared and well executed. So the both games have very bitter aftertaste and notorious legacy. Both olympics were marred by political problems: Munich by a bloody terror attack and Moscow by the Cold War and huge boycott. "O Sport." attempts to be funny, easygoing, lighthearted and accessible for the general public. "Eight" is a serious, very arty, quite unaccessible and experimental movie. Strange, because the overall mood of two movies are very different. seems to be influenced by the German movie. Ozerov was one of eight directors who made the notorious olympic movie "Visions Of Eight" about Munich olympic games in 1972. The lead director of "O Sport, You Are Peace!" is Juri Ozerov. From "16 Days of Glory" (1985) the films have been more dry and serious reportages about the ultimate sports events. "O Sport, You Are Peace!" Is the last of the series of "arty" olympic movies, starting with "Tokyo Olympiad" 1965. ![]()
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