4 2005 123movies

Watch: 4 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner “simply Volodya” drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while each regales the others with made-up biographies. Oleg claims to work in President Putin’s administration, supplying him with bottled water and his wife with liquor; Marina passes herself off as a marketing executive; and Volodya, the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, as a geneticist who clones twins (two times two makes four, again) in a laboratory that has been engaged in these experiments since the days of Stalin. After they separate, these fantasy realities, especially Volodya’s, begin to dominate their everyday lives..
Plot: Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 2,191
	N/A | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 24 Popularity: 3.148 | TMDB

Reviews:

Mesmerizing but infuriating first feature
The screenplay of “4” is credited to edgy contemporary Russian author Vladimir Sorokin, and in case you think movies aren’t serous business any more, reportedly everybody who worked on making “4” was beaten by angry viewers. It may be that Khzhanovsky went a little haywire in the latter part of the 2-hour-plus film, losing some of Sorokin’s structure because he became a little too taken up with a lively and colorful group of wizened crones who are the actual inhabitants of the remote village to which protagonist Marina goes for the funeral and wake for her (twiin?) sister. Did the crones actually get drunk on the vodka they are shown swilling in the wake scene and thereafter? Was the camera-work meant to grow increasingly sloppier? Warning to young filmmakers: don’t let colorful locations run away with your picture. Nonetheless this is a humdinger. Dangerous to be so provocative with your first big feature film. It made him famous (or notorious), but it was six years till he finished another film (Dau, an epic biography of the scientist Lev Landau, which is now in post-production).

The film begins slowly but intriguingly with a half-hour sequence of three people telling lies to each other at an after hours bar, inventing fantastic occupations. Marina, who is a whore, pretends to be in advertising. A stylish, somewhat effete man who is really a meat dealer claims to purvey spring water to the president. The other man, deadpan chain smoker with a crewcut who later admits to Marina he’s a piano tuner, tells a preposterous and revolting story about being a geneticist involved in cloning of humans that he claims has gone on since the Stalin era. “4” refers to the habit of cloning double twins. When he gets into a tale of homosexual rape among black clones in a slum the meat broker goes off in a huff. His discovery of “round” piglets sold at a fancy restaurant is assurance, if needed, that “4′ is bizarre and surreal. Everybody has written about it. The Times called it “mysterious” and “mesmerizing,” and Jonothan Rosenbaum wrote about it favorably (though I can’t access his review — some of the online archives don’t go back as far as 2005 or 2006).

Although at the one-hour mark, with the film half over, things only are beginning to happen, and that’s not very good, the opening sequence at the bar, even if over- long, is atmospheric and intriguing. One excellent and admiring review by Ty Burr of the Boston Globe described the scene as a surreal, futuristic Russian version of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” “come to life with a script by a post modernist prankster”(and Burr identifies Sorokin as “one of the more controversial voices in post-Soviet literature”). But it’s scary and provocative rather than dreary. It’s interesting to begin with three characters who are quite mysterious. Unfortunately the film delves into the meat broker’s life only briefly, and the pretend geneticist piano tuner not at all. Perhaps it was best to stick to one of the three, to give the film unified focus, but it still makes things feel structurally left dangling. Doubtless the round pigs, the shaggy-dog bar conversations, the Stalin-era meat preserved in a vast freezer at 28º (below?), the large dolls whose heads are made of chewed bread, are all products of the fevered imagination of Vladimir Sorokin. So too are the repetitions of doubling, doubling scenes, twins, the fantastic clone tales, hinting that the world has gone mad and gone bad. Unfortunately the barking dogs, the endless trek cross-country to a wake peopled by colorful locals already had the quality of déjâ-vu, maybe because I’ve recently seen similar sequences in Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and the Bulgarian Konstantin Bojanov’s Avé, and I think I’ve seen it before that. I’ll bet Emir Kosturica did some sequence like this somewhere. This movie is accomplished, ambitious in its eccentricity. Some of it nonetheless reminded me of Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers. And it made me appreciate Sokurov and Zvyagintsev even more, and, in a more popular vein, Bekmambetov, who’s an entertainer and a technical dazzler, and no slouch in the surrealism department. Certainly, though, “4” is very much in the Russian vein. The sound design, though typically grating and overblown, is technically the film’s most original aspect.

Not a great date movie- unless your date is insane
Don’t worry, I’m not going to give away the ending- couldn’t even if I wanted to. Not really sure what the ending was, the screen went black & the house lights went up but that was the only clue I had the the “story” was over. Let me put it this way- during one scene an entire row of people got up and left muttering things like “This isn’t a movie! I don’t know what this was but how dare he!” and “Go back to Russia” That’s when I knew that the director was really on to something. Again, not really sure what he is on to or into for that matter but this movie is definitely worth seeing. It’s beautifully shot, one scene more enthralling than the previous one, the acting is great especially since I don’t think any of the actors are actually actors & the sound & music brought on an acid flashback. All pluses in my book. It’s not for the faint of heart or vegetarians. Good luck. (FYI- my spell check tells me that I write at a 6th grade level so what do I know-)

Other Information:

Original Language ru
Runtime 2 hr 6 min (126 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
Writer Vladimir Sorokin
Actors Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov
Country Russia, Netherlands
Awards 12 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm