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Once a year the Archive shows Rise of Glory in full. Four hours. Report: the first hour is the man and the wild horse, one take, no cuts. Fourteen people left by minute twenty. By minute fifty-five the rest of us were holding our breath. When the horse finally let him on, somebody in the back said "ah" out loud, and nobody laughed.

I went. I brought laghman in a jar for hour three. Hour two switches to "you" and starts addressing me personally. I felt attacked. Then I ate.

The shift into the second person is the film turning around to examine your conscience. That was our seminary reading, anyway. The teacher who taught it to us had been at the Leningrad screening and never told us what happened there.

Or it's the film RECRUITING you. Second person = orders. Somebody in 1979 knew exactly what they were doing. Nobody asks WHO.

Talgat Osmonov. Osmonov knew what he was doing. It's on the poster, Ak.