As I said in part one of this review, the main character in the film is a nice young lady called Yelena Belova who hails from that sunny, tourist hotspot known as Siberia in Russia. Famous for its extremely short winter days and extremely long prison sentences for anyone Joseph Stalin could think of while eating his cornflakes. For our younger audience members Joseph Stalin was a man with a moustache in the first half of the twentieth century who acquired a lot of power and utilised it in very unique ways. Imagine a social media influencer who uses lots and lots of firing squads to gain likes. He was also a confirmed music lover and musician, he was famous for the extended bongo solos he would take on political prisoners’ testicles, he once used a small village in Vladivostok to stage a production of Joseph and The Amazing Technocolour Dreamcoat where the entire orchestral score was recreated using machine gun fire and explosives and is suspected to have had the inventor of the Kazoo ground up and made into borscht as an unusual way of thanking him for his contribution to the arts. Quite a rambunctious character I think you’ll agree and one of our most beloved megalomaniacal mass murderers. Georgia really knocked it out the park when they gave us Joe and let’s not forget James Brown too.
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