Brother 2 as a political melodrama. Another important element of melodrama is outright wickedness, offended virtue and the final victory over evil. Such is the logic of any ultra-nationalism, not only Russian, of course. This movie is about Ukrainian Cossacks who are able to do it! Brother 2 seems to have formed the political unconscious the term of Fredric Jameson of several post-Soviet generations, remaining invariably in favor and in the air.
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