Elizabeth-Varvara Aranova brings us back to a troubled reality where adult life is not a set of lifehacks but an endless parade of anxieties and paradoxes. Control over nature? Illusions crumble faster than social ties dissolve.
In "Ups and Downs," the comedian is not looking for enlightenment: there's checkmate and pain, but no atheistic preaching about a bright future. Everything is built on sarcastic observations about the pointlessness of the search for happiness and the impossibility of being a normal person. If you want consolation, you won't find it here, but the mirror of the epoch and the draft of a psychotherapeutic session in Russian are present in full.
