Part 2.
"Привет." "Привет," she smiles. "Я приехал за тобой." (...) "Костя, подожди, послушай, я тебе всё объясню. Он всё про меня знает, я ничего не могу сделать. Он меня чувствует, понимаешь, нет? (...) Я не могу его снять." "Я помогу." "Не надо. Он тебя убьёт." "Я не боюсь." "Я боюсь."
Dude, their romance. His body language. I fall into this pit every single time. Idk why but between the book romance for Alisa and Igor (?) and the movie romance for Alisa and Kostya, I definitely choose the latter. There's something so special about them to me.
And then Zavulon DOES kill Kostya. If only Alisa let Kostya leave when he tried to. No chalk needed, just let Kostya leave. :( I wonder if she could actually leave Zavulon alive. I feel like he's so cruel, he wouldn't let her, especially not for another man, ESPECIALLY not for a vampire, and not for such a weak one.
Then again, in the book he lets Alisa die, and her lover dies, too, so Kostya dying and Alisa losing her mind our of grief is kind of fitting here.
Also, Kostya mostly feels young when you dress him appropriately, but then in this scene, he does feel and look like a grown—mature, even—man that misses his woman and wants to fight for her.
I feel like if Alisa didn't try to take off the ring so furiously, Zavulon might have not checked on her. Kostya would leave and would have been alive later. Then again, Zavulon came to take her with him, he didn't want her to miss the start of the party. *deep sigh* Dude, the hets from my early teenage years got me again.
"Устал твой папа. Ты уж его прости."
The asshole drugged Anton and then acted like he knows nothing and it's all Anton's fault. He's horrible. I love him. Anton and Zavulon's relationship in the movie is very predatory, but then he also tried to kill Anton in the book, so. It, at the very least, is a start.
Can they pls kiss?
"Инквизицию вызывать?" "Не спеши. Ещё не все собрались."
Dude. The way he looks her up and down, with the raised eyebrows, with that little smile. Amused? But then also, she's his WIFE. Is he still attracted to her in a way?
How familiar she is with him, too.
Does the movie imply that they've been together for a long time? But as far as I remember, they weren't married in the first movie & there's not that much time passed after it.
The way he looks at her makes me think that they once made love. That she once was in love with him. Maybe he was in love with her, too. Or close to that, considering his history with his exes and that he's around 2000 years old.
"Давай выпьем." "Ну давай, коль не шутишь." "На брудершафт." "Доиграешься, Городецкий. Сдам тебя Инквизиции."
Also. It's a shame they didn't have that brüderschaft drink. I would have loved to see it & would have more content for the ship.
Kostya 🥺 Out of everyone casted in the movie, he's probably the one I imagine when I read the books. Make him a bit younger, around 19, like he's supposed to be in canon, and that's it. That's a good Kostya.
There's this little moment that looks ridiculous as stills, but Kostya mouths to Alisa to leave with him and Alisa catches it and shakes her head. She's scared. I'd like to gif this. I probably won't but I'd like to at least remember this.
The visual is kinda cool (after all, Kostya and Zavulon are a fun ship in the books) but Kostya deserved SO much better. Look at how scared he is, how significant the power imbalance is. He tried, he really tried to shake off Zavulon's grip, to push him away. Watching this, I'm now thinking Kostya could have left alive if he didn't attack Zavulon? :(
Either way, cheers to the actors for going all the way. Honestly, Zavulon with his tango? Holding Kostya so firm, with a hand on his neck so that Kostya can't free from his grip. And there IS some kind of passion/chemistry in this.
Ugh. I'm in my feelings about so many things in this movie.
They deserved BETTER. 😟😥
There's something about this angle. Zavulon is dragging around dying Kostya. Anton tries to stop Alisa and to get the chalk from her.
"Остановите её, дядя Завулон." "Её уже не остановить." "Тогда я сам." "Она сильнее тебя, Егор, подумай." "А если её убить?" "Мелодрама, Егор, не мой жанр." "А что же тогда делать?" "Думай, Егор, думай." "Вчера, в Сумраке, я воткнул в неё иглу. Теперь я могу её выпить."
First of all, I really like that Zavulon leaves the decision to Egor. He lets and ASKS him to think on his own. He teaches him. And when Egor thinks of the right decision, Zavulon raises his eyebrows, promoting Egor to act.
I also like that Egor wants Anton to become the dark one. I like that Zavulon sees that "Anton is getting darker." He should have been with Zavulon, not Geser. We were robbed. Lukyanenko was a coward for not going there.
