History Film / Leviathan2014

* PetTheDog: After Kolya is arrested, Ivan and his wife take in Roma rather than allowing him to get sent to an orphanage.

* PetTheDog: After Kolya is arrested, his friends take in Roma rather than allowing him to get sent to an orphanage.

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* FatBastard: The mayor's obesity underscores his corruption, greed, and amorality.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of being chummy with the Russian Orthodox church and paying lip service to its values, the mayor gets up to some very unchristian behavior. Besides the fact that what he's knowingly violating the law, he also has no problem using other legal mechanisms to ruin Kolya's life. That's to say nothing of how he's persistently driven by greed (his desire for more power), gluttony (the fact that he's living comfortably at the expense of his hardscrabble, working-class citizens) wrath (his anger at Kolya and Dima for objecting to his abuse of power), pride (his belief that he understands God's will and is merely acting on his behalf) and more than anything else, [[GreenEyedMonster his envy of Kolya's land]].

* MotorMouth: The judge who reads the ruling in Kolya's case. She reads off a judgement of barely-comprehensible legalese, which would hardly be understandable even at normal speed. Doubles as a very black BrickJoke when the same judge reads off his 15-year sentence for murder at the same lightning speed.

* {{Jerkass}}: The priest who Kolya speaks to isn't particularly sympathetic to his plight, coldly insinuating that the man's losses are all part of God's plan and giving him the hallow, unhelpful advice that he should accept his fate, like Job did in the bible. Seeing as the bishop is complicit in the mayor's scheme, the priest was likely using scripture to justify the church taking advantage of Kolya under the pretext that it's what God wants.

* MotorMouth: The judge who reads the ruling in Kolya's case. She rattles off the whole opinion in record time. Doubles as a very black BrickJoke when the same judge reads off his 15-year sentence for murder at the same lightning speed.

* StupidEvil: Either Bishop is this or the casting team did a CriticalResearchFailure. While the main premise of the film is taking the land from the protagonist to build a church, a ruins of another one are also shown. Bishop could have achieved his goal by restoring it. Not only it would give him less bureaucratical hoops to jump through, Russian government actually subsidizes old church restoration projects meaning he also might [[CutLexLuthorACheck lose some financial gain by ignoring such an opportunity]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This film about a corrupt kleptocrat leader and the corrupt, lawless government that enables him was made in Vladimir Putin's Russia. There's even a portrait of Putin behind the mayor's desk, which is a not-so-subtle condemnation of the social order that Putin represents. What's more is that the film got thirty-five percent of its budget from the notoriously reactionary Ministry of Culture, so Zvyagintsev had to have done some smooth talking to get them to sign off on the project.
** Amusingly, in spite of the film's critical angle towards the church, the real-life metropolitan of Murmansk (where the film was shot) approved of the film's social commentary, candidly describing its portrayal of Russia's social problems as "honest."

* YourCheatingHeart: Lilia has a fling with Dmitri.

You can watch ''Leviathan'' [[https://russianfilmhub.com/movies/leviathan-2014/ here]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This film about a corrupt kleptocrat leader and the corrupt, lawless government that enables him was made in Vladimir Putin's Russia. There's even a portrait of Putin behind the mayor's desk, which is a not-so-subtle condemnation of social the order that Putin represents. What's more is that the film got thirty-five percent of its budget from the notoriously reactionary Ministry of Culture, so Zvyagintsev had to have done some smooth talking to get them to sign off on the project.

* [[{{Hypocrite}}]]: In spite of being chummy with the Russian Orthodox church and paying lip service to its values, the mayor gets up to some very unchristian behavior. Besides the fact that what he's knowingly violating the law, he also has no problem using other legal mechanisms to ruin Kolya's life. That's to say nothing of how he's persistently driven by greed (his desire for more power), gluttony (the fact that he's living comfortably at the expense of his hardscrabble, working-class citizens) wrath (his anger at Kolya and Dima for objecting to his abuse of power), pride (his belief that he understands God's will and is merely acting on his behalf) and more than anything else, [[GreenEyedMonster his envy of Kolya's land]].
* [[{{Jerkass}}]]: The priest who Kolya speaks to isn't particularly sympathetic to his plight, coldly insinuating that the man's losses are all part of God's plan and giving him the hallow, unhelpful advice that he should accept his fate, like Job did in the bible. Seeing as the bishop is complicit in the mayor's scheme, the priest was likely using scripture to justify the church taking advantage of Kolya under the pretext that it's what God wants.

* [[{Hypocrite}]]: In spite of being chummy with the Russian Orthodox church and paying lip service to its values, the mayor gets up to some very unchristian behavior. Besides the fact that what he's knowingly violating the law, he also has no problem using other legal mechanisms to ruin Kolya's life. That's to say nothing of how he's persistently driven by greed (his desire for more power), gluttony (the fact that he's living comfortably at the expense of his hardscrabble, working-class citizens) wrath (his anger at Kolya and Dima for objecting to his abuse of power), pride (his belief that he understands God's will and is merely acting on his behalf) and more than anything else, [[GreenEyedMonster his envy of Kolya's land]].
* [[{Jerkass}]]: The priest who Kolya speaks to isn't particularly sympathetic to his plight, coldly insinuating that the man's losses are all part of God's plan and that he should accept his fate, like Job in the bible. Seeing as the church is complicit in the mayor's scheme, the priest was likely using scripture to justify the church taking advantage of Kolya under the pretext that it's what God wants.

* DownerEnding: Lilia commits suicide. Afterwards, Kolya is arrested and charged with murdering her. This allows the mayor and his Church ally to proceed with their project, building a cathedral where Kolya's house was.

* FatBastard: The mayor, extremely corrupt and very overweight.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This film about a corrupt kleptocrat leader and his corrupt, lawless government was made in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Notably, there's a portrait of Putin behind the mayor's desk.

* TitleDrop: And also AsTheGoodBookSays. After Kolya challenges the bishop about where is God, the bishop quotes [[http://biblehub.com/niv/job/41.htm the first three verses]] of Job 41, comparing Kolya to Job (they certainly both suffer, but Kolya doesn't get Job's happy ending.) The allusions to Leviathan seem to be a reference to the corrupt, unjust Russian state. There is also a visual title drop with the shots of the skeleton of a whale, washed up in the harbor.

* CorruptChurch: Orthodox Church is presented in far from the best view in the movie.

* TitleDrop: And also AsTheGoodBookSays. After Kolya challenges the bishop about where is God, the bishop quotes [[http://biblehub.com/niv/job/41.htm the first three verses]] of Job 41.