5 reasons to watch the documentary series “Noughties”

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Key plots of the era

As in the documentary series “The Nineties”, for each series the creators have chosen a theme that captures and reveals the spirit of the era. The spectrum is wide: from club life and the heyday of reality shows on television to economic prosperity and the mass arrival of users in Runet. Within each large-scale topic there is a key story and it is easy to tell about it. Thus, a series about club culture is built around the legendary “Dyagilev” and the promoter Alexei Gorobiy, who created it, and a series about the revolution in Russian rap tells the story of the CENTR group. And an impressive list of narrators is responsible for the reliability of the presentation.

main characters

It is not so much witnesses and experts who tell about the era of the 2000s, but rather direct participants who were in the very center of events. Timur Bekmambetov, Konstantin Ernst and Fyodor Bondarchuk recall how “Night Watch” and “Ninth Company” again brought us to the cinema to domestic films. All three members of the Moscow group CENTR will tell about how street rap made this musical culture truly mass, even though they are still at odds with each other. And for an issue about club life, they will talk not only with the art director of the famous Diaghilev, but also with its dancer. Even if their versions of events may differ slightly, this only makes the picture more voluminous.

Hope time

It seems that such different people as rapper Ptakha, Fyodor Bondarchuk and Alexei Kudrin should have almost nothing in common. But the most diverse heroes of the “Zero” seems to be united by one feeling. In this decade, they are surprised to discover how what seemed unattainable suddenly works. Moscow is becoming the center of world club life, Russian cinema is beginning to outstrip Hollywood at the box office, a small blogging platform on the Internet suddenly becomes the center of the country’s intellectual life. It’s truly rewarding to watch people who are truly dedicated to their work talk about happy and enthusiastic times.

Accurate intonation

Without pretending to be an exhaustive conversation and not forgetting that the decade was different for different people, Sergey Minaev’s project gives the heroes the opportunity to be themselves and tell their part of a big story. The author does not distance himself from other narrators, but together with them he turns out to be one of the participants in the events. Sergey Minaev shares his feelings both from the first visit to a popular nightclub and from joining LiveJournal. The documentary project becomes not a cold summing up of a bygone era, but an experience of inclusive and indifferent observation.

wave of nostalgia

And this is quite intersects with the audience experience. “Zero” is a story of the not distant past, each of the viewers had their own zero, and here you can indulge in the pleasant joy of recognition. Runet, television, film distribution hits of that time – all this is a common cultural code. And, probably, everyone can remember their own experience of watching “The Night Watch”, the songs of “Star Factory” and their first memes on the Internet and briefly return to an era when the future promised to be even sweeter than the present.