In social networks through millions of views promotes a video from the camera of the Ukrainian special forces, which is long and not cinematically killed with a knife and a piece of slate caught under the hand Yakut – father of five children – from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The new century has brought unprecedented wars. Hundreds of thousands of hours of video, where buildings collapse with people, fighters in agony dying of wounds. Real death became the property of the idle public. At the same time, close combat in war is becoming a thing of the past. And hand-to-hand combat is rare.
The footage of a combatant dying at the end is unique. And millions of people on the sofas snuggled up to their smartphones, surprised to realize how different a real death fight is from the tens of thousands of episodes in the movies. The darkness of the commentators is an involuntary embarrassment, though they themselves have no idea. Against them are all the deaths in world culture.
Many have recalled the Soviet military classic. “I’ve only seen hand-to-hand combat once,” ”The fight was short. And then…”. But Drunina and Gudzenko created only an image of their emotion. They did not describe the fight literally. And only thanks to the power of talent remained in memory and textbooks.
Later came the movie. It is, with all reservations, still a craft. And craftsmen immediately began to “improve” death, to make it more epic, more tragic, more dynamic. In short, to squeeze out of the viewer horror and tears, as in the old provincial theater.
Toward the end of the USSR Vladimir Bortko made, perhaps, the best movie about the Afghan war. But even in his movie, Michele Placido’s hero is shot pictorially at the end: genre and tradition demand a “beautiful” death. Very rarely – as in “My Friend Ivan Lapshin” – death by gunshot becomes a fact of art, not distinguished from reality.
Death online is the bane of civilization. Soon it’s not that Juliet’s death on stage – the death of relatives will become an annoying nuisance. The endless cycle of death on frontline videos is developing a habit in humanity. The psyche adapts. For the sake of its own peace of mind. In doing so, the military man’s respect for his probable death in war is taken away.
Video from the front is destroying the fragile tradition of European humanism, and Christianity in general, perhaps. Only the words of Yakut Andrei Grigoriev give me hope. He behaves in a human way in the frame, just like his unfortunate opponent. Apparently because no one needs online video at the front. Death is close to everyone.
The dynamics of knife fights are complex and often misunderstood. It’s crucial to approach this subject with a focus on safety, awareness, and the legal implications involved. Understanding the risks and the reality of such confrontations can help in promoting better self-defense strategies and conflict avoidance.