Krull 4K 1983

Late in the evening, returning tired from filming a somewhat fantastical music video, I decided to relax and unwind by watching the venerable old film Krull, which I had seen a long time ago and hardly remembered. Half an hour later, I forgot all about my fatigue and enjoyed following the adventures of the film's main characters. That's how it is. And you say that it is suitable for children of primary and secondary school age. No, gentlemen, sometimes it is very useful to “fall into childhood,” especially when you fall into despondency, stress, irritation, or just when you are very tired. Watch a “light-hearted” and unsentimental, but seriously made fairy tale or fantasy film, and your soul will warm up, your spirit will be strengthened, and you will simply be in a good mood. Because in fairy tales, good always triumphs over evil, and the greatest victorious force is Love! This is exactly what happens in Krulla (and the boundaries between fairy tale and fantasy are very arbitrary here; it's more of a fairy tale: there aren't enough busty girls in leather bikinis and muscular warriors in leather swimming trunks for it to be fantasy). And there is enough drama in it, albeit fairy-tale drama (take, for example, the scene where the sage meets the Spider Woman—purely adult “business”).

Of course, this film is not one of the greats in general and of its genre in particular, but it is respectable, if only because it has been enjoyed by many viewers around the world for 30 years. I hope they will continue to watch it, despite its age and the simplicity of its special effects (why is everyone so obsessed with them? For example, the simple but spectacular purely technical effect of an object appearing and disappearing in the frame is still actively and successfully used today, including by yours truly. The main thing is that it is appropriate and timely). The musical accompaniment is also pleasing—the heroic and pathetic music and the work of the sound engineer and music editor: the symphony orchestra sounds powerful, amplifying and emphasizing the action with the fullness of its instruments. This is not modern background music from Hollywood composers-craftsmen, which no one pays attention to.

And here's another thing. ‘Krul’ itself copied something from previous famous films (for example, the ‘killers’ with their colorful blasters came here from ‘Star Wars’—even a blind man could see that), and ‘gave’ something to the future (the short episode at the end with the heroes running across a narrow stone bridge collapsing over a precipice under enemy fire was greatly developed in the first part of The Lord of the Rings (“You shall not pass!”)). So this “children's” film is not as simple as it seems.