七重心

　　我们最原始的恐惧之一就是对未知的恐惧编织了一系列故事。

　　经过上百年的发展，胶片技术从蛮荒走到成熟，电影人采用化学摄影法创造了一个又一个经典和视觉奇迹。而当时间逐渐走向21世纪时，化学摄影法趋近临界点，几无上升空间，且越来越无法应对电影工业对新技术和全新拍摄手法、理念的诉求。与此同时，数字摄影方兴未艾，正以前所未有的势头进入传统技术固若金汤的电影领域。从Dogma 95对手提DV的使用，到乔治•卢卡斯大胆的HD摄影之应用，伴随着“顽固派”和“革新派”的政治和讨论，数字摄影蚕食着传统胶片的领土，逐渐成为当今电影工业的主流。在这一过程中，配光、摄影、剪辑等工作也相继受到冲击和影响。
　　这是一场全新的革命，是对充满各种可能性的未来满怀信心的展望……

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...