Song of the open road

Artem Cheh once again wrote about the war - and again not about that one. That is, not about this one. Therefore, on the one hand, "Song of the Open Road" can be considered as a genre-stylistic game, an adventure-historical game about America. A former serf from a Ukrainian village within the Russian Empire, finding himself at the epicenter of an American tragedy, eventually becomes the embodiment of the American dream. But, on the other, more serious side, the main character's path is open - this path away from Moscow, the path through the war to freedom, the path from the Russian in the prologue to the Ukrainian in the epilogue. And on the other hand, it is easy to imagine a feature film based on this novel. A black-and-white film about a journey full of symbolic meanings from East to West, to oneself and one's eternal home. And the soundtrack: words by Walt Whitman, music by Neil Young.