the struggle between good and evil for the human soul is there all the flaws in the history of the bible and almost all the books that came after it how does one make this story which has been told millions of times. and piercing to discuss that i'm now joined by film director paul. great to talk to you thank you very much for your time now we are recording this interview in st petersburg the part of the city that's most associated with. the great russian writer this is where he lived this is where many of his novels i wonder if the place feels any special. the. most important thing about the three years is. this. the human soul. is the you months or i think this is the common point many of your films deal with

the same themes the. writings the meaning of good and evil moral choice freewill conscious and subconscious do you just sad to raise those eternal themes in in a new context or do you actually try to add something new to the conversation. in a way that my movie is hard try to make out of fridge about some. in my last two movies perfect stranger in the. between the idea of the movie. is a perfect stranger. that we usually.

no please sometimes we don't know ourselves so this is the fruition about this two movies. you mentioned the place already and i think in that movie in particular you deal with the same dilemma that dostoyevsky raised in crime and punishment how much evil i can allow myself for the sake of good that i seek and i think you raise an additional question of what is good and what is evil because for just ask it was very clear what is good and evil but for you it's much more ambiguous much more interchangeable how can you make a moral choice when your definition of good and evil is not even certain. he has because for me the definition it's not real. good and is the plan from the situation i start. from the idea that all of us are good. except to where we are in some situation that put us in to do to be bad. and. this is the reason

of the present of this mori to understand how. moral point of view could change you in. a can of situation and how important is the five that we have been. to understand this one of the screenplay serious just for. i read some phrases about the years that for me it's really important to decide which kind of direction to fall over and this freezes. from those three years and know exactly who we are from where. there is nothing more. than see in the three days of

the fight the between the god and we are and this is the reason why. i use a lot of the very very strictly close up you have a very interesting character of a nun there who stopped hearing god and she's given an assignment to become pregnant president in order to hear god again which proves to be a real blessing for her but that's because she has an external force that man with a diary telling her what to do giving her the directions but in real lives we do not have the voice telling us what to do or do when. i think that you're alive we have a voice because the man the world is for me is where you are for me that man a person. different. if you believe you

could be good. or could be there. could be your coalition or just a mirror but at the overweight a boy inside in that movie there is also a story line about an elderly lady who is trying to save her husband from the advent of alzheimer's disease and at certain points she understands that in sacrificing for the loved one she cannot allow herself to sacrifice herself and that's i think the very central question to the lot how much you can give to the loud one and how much you have to keep for yourself do you have a rule of thumb or personal rule of thumb in your life. i think the. lady. for me is for a main course of the movie of the movie. because she say.

there is something. inside of us. who. don't have to discover who are really lucky and this is the son to own meaning of this cora. and she also says a certain point people who didn't have to contend with the darker sides of the lucky ones is that to be true because can you be as authentic genuine self without seeing evil in the without seeing your dark side yes yes it's really true i think it's real i think every one of us inside. of darkseid really bout not everyone in our world lives to freeze with. if we don't have to face all for i think we are very very lucky because maybe our lives go in our way to we don't have to face off with this side but can you become

a real jane you've been doing that because you know i was as i was preparing i came across a quote from carly youngest who is having a comeback these days and one of his famous quotes was dubbed in filth shall be found that you can only improve yourself by looking in the darkest corners of your soul can you become your better self without addressing your dark ourselves. i think going down your backside you can improve your. it's all. because i think that you can improve if you go down than you are to come and how sometimes when you go too much deeper the risk is that. all of your carriage. sure is

a struggling vidar a darker side but you never show a person who fully crossed into the evil side and we see a lot and lots of people like that these days people who go on shooting sprees people who kill torture and no want to gain something for themselves or their loved ones but just for the sake of causing pain and suffering do you believe in absolute darkness in the human soul or do you still think that no matter what there's still some alive flaps yes i think that. goodness inside since. i don't know. that he. really believe this. that we sure. it's. our condition our life it's not always the band from our. oh. it's the it's

a very general general and i'm sure impossible question to answer but how would you maximize the amount of goodness in the world i think it's. like wish it's. really. the. paolo we have to take a very short break now but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. when you'll make this manufactured consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go

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what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got

this memo from the search that says we're going to destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness. welcome back to worlds apart but the tally of film director politician ever has that knowledge just before the break we talked about this theme or how much or betray yourself your loved ones and that theme is very prominent in your are there perfect strangers and one of the most memorable lines and that's all for me is that

people need to learn how to break up shouldn't they try to learn how to stay together for. the. will to use the good. in different. sometimes we don't go so deep and know we were mean superficially level and that there are some times could be perfect for anyone because we are scare to go in the. but the debt level you can make an effort to break up or you can make an effort to stay together on there jane in. why do you think people should go towards separating rather than trying to become real with one another. easier because it's easier to get here many of your male characters in that movie complain

a lot about boredom that life is boring for them. is boredom is for extreme you're human yes. there is one character and i think your characters in particular all believe that married life is boring is that something that you can blame on the other person or is that something that you have to work on yourself you also know it's. it's not for. the life it's boring or. live could be boring. without something new. and this is what i i see around me. some couples. than fifty. need something new. to make more in life and to cobble in a perfect stranger to go over the needs is the leader.

segment yeah it's an exciting thing for the outside but it's really little things and i think a lot of coble prefer to stay together don't break the car but. sometimes for more of some time for the child sometimes for common opinion. and they remain together for a lot of. motivation don't split and find outside the little. little new going on in perfect strangers he also externalized conscious element. but instead of a matter of a diary like in the place you have a mobile phone that is kind of externalizing all the war is all the concerns all the secrets do you think the technology changed the way people build their relationships really change your exposure only in this moment because we

are cross generation. because in unison with us though we didn't form and if you should. change. the way in which we have to expose surely to young jewish because young jewish. to have any kind of true relationship with their from you or from yes right. in the first is not free to free but it is with you from and that is our phone. change of stuff first so exposure lee you know relationship an expression in sentiment the relationship because we have yet to see. something like for example shy now to

become aware because we are. we don't have to face our part in the first book i agree with here the technology makes it easier to get to know somebody very fast you get intimate much closer but you still have to make the same moral choices i mean whether to cheat and not to cheat whether to make a certain move or not to make a certain all the main questions are still there or. different with first of all because. you can't really show. with a lot of their son the same. sue. why can't a more nation in. same time with them person we are can and this the humane is different if you have face to face or if you are. a foreigner between you and the other person you are talking about it. and idea came to my mind that if one

is a little bit like alcohol it takes away your inhibitions so when you have a personal communication there are many in here that keep your back yes absolutely you have a man to. different day and so in time ok now i have you front of me if you make me a question i have to give you a man sir immediately i can think but little in with your phone you can put the other person then by. you can think about them you can. not immediately communication not spontaneous communication well i think you can both have a very spontaneous communication but also you can delay it if on some level it gives you more control. yes move through all the different kind

of spontaneous now there is a very interesting moment in perfect strangers when has been as put in this situation when he has to either come out as sexual cheater or as gay and i was struggling with the dilemma a little bit because even if he was unfaithful to his wife with a man he would still be a cheater wouldn't be yes he have to be to make a choice now to be unfaithful. to be feeling like it's value even if he feels like gay isn't he also a cheater yeah yeah yes but. for me what this report karrar to is. a story of. again from a different point of view. the most important the moment of the character is at the end when you see i have been gay for two hours and it's enough.

to speak about we will long be a bird soon there lives for to our situation now from what i know around fifteen remakes of perfect strangers have been made around the world including one recently in russia and i heard you say in one of the injuries that you don't really live a dia of remaking of your films why do you allow it there. because i can't stop the. biggest production company the rights of me and de our own do because. it's smart money questions. what i say that i don't like so much but for me it's not a problem. if you ask me just after. the year like.

so sue it's normal because a movie is like a child for me and went there is someone that changes your child it's like change the hair on the hide so you don't like it but it's normal. of our success in life perfect stranger a lot of kountry would like to make me. not for change the story be good because usually this is almost the same because they like to put some law goals that are no for example about two weeks ago. remake of prayer for strangers worse really is and. about the about eight million. dollars first weekend and now after two weekends this twenty five million dollars may be with the new one with. its of course subra to make this

kind of the big box office so i understand commercial. point of view make me it's also very striking that this plot will be so easily translated into other cultures because fifty very different cultures from korean to tell him to russian found something in it that they relate so easily what is it about that's the thing is so accessible to all around the world. the idea. that. the way in which we tell the idea is international it's not local. anyone can understand these deep trust for mission of the foreigner. where fifteen remake of the perfect stranger has been ruled in seventy five.

maybe this is idea that could be understood everywhere that you have in all of your films you have a very intense focus on the story and the psychology of it is to many a static tricks or special effects i you know for the traditional storytelling. you know you're still don't know. where you go or. things you know who. were up to the lingere. movie. for me it's nothing. like comic movie or. reeling scare. the emotions if my unions get in out from the scene that some emotion with. ok my movies or. all your films involve a bit of

a very realistic magic they have both improbable and very believable set up i think they make people feel a little bit like children without letting their forget that they're adults so this is a very interesting kind of condition that people relate to. do you agree with that or is that just my interpretation. quite agree it's interesting through their position about the. supreme court is now working on your. first english language film the first day of my life which has been described as a new york sad suicide tragedy how is it progressing so far. as they are from our lives from my book. i decide to. describe. the story. of their own every way because. they are from allies who are really really what success for a book because we have six who are. so and this may be the kind of

story could be important in this moment because he is really. story it's about four person. try to start again from the bottom. and maybe in this moment in which there would be the same fire. we need a story of hope for a story story or for a start the first day of my life or that. it's. i heard you say in one engineer that unlike previous selves that dealt with the demons people have to confront this story is more about redemption you know finding something in you that allows you to leave for earth finding your own angels on a personal level what do you find more difficult to keep your demons under control

or to talk with your personal angels. for me. to feel it's the world with my androids above. my person. so it's the fuel to go with myself and finally if i may i know that for most of your film career you've been in control of both writing and directing but in the united states the film industry is very compartmentalize everybody is responsible for his own are her own little area did you have to give up any of the controls in order to pursue this is profitable in this case no because the model life is a movie we've from a european saw and saw all of the production for my friends the english movie is european production the me production is minutes a few minutes then use

a corporate action on the box i will work in this like you need really. everything's casting script and reaction and editing music out of them anyway i have some requests from united states from hollywood from movies in. to shoot the nominee can we saw. them and i think it's different. but anyway we're in there because yes you do your work you do like the way someone does think about the script and someone. or. the court. and sue you have to have. to say about the day. very much looking forward to the next film and thank you very much for sharing your thank you i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going

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