Cinema in an era of social uncertainty: experience and reflection (on the example of modern Russian cinema)

Social uncertainty is an alarming time when individual, society, state is faced with a choice of the path that must be followed in order to maintain internal unity with “ours”, determine the place of “theirs” and recognize “others” who seek to replenish the group of “ours”. Cinema sensitively responds to the demands of society in search of moral support for solving complex problems. At the same time, modern domestic cinema itself is experiencing a crisis, which consists in the erosion of value orientations. The world without a hero plunges into chaos, when death begins to prevail over life, when an individual does not see a way out of the current situation, when person does not understand where to go and on whose side the truth is. At the same time, the art of cinema helps to decipher coded symbols and metaphors and, through artistic images, to come to terms with reality.