Българската кинокомедия „Мисия Лондон“. Мисията (не)възможна?
The Bulgarian Comedy Film “Mission London“. Mission (Im)Possible?

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the nature and functions, the aesthetic and ethical vision of the comedy and its postmodern transformations; the social messages of the Bulgarian comedy film and the phenomenon of the movie script based on literary work. The article problematizes the relations between the commercial cinema product of high quality and the aesthetic value of the contemporary literary work which has turned into classic. The film of Dimitar Mitovski turned out to be a real competitor of the brilliant parody novel of Alek Popov. And the plot of „Mission London“ became a byword for the initially wrong model of the „Bulgarian transition period“. The ever¬lasting theme of We and the Others which has become a mental stereotype of every peripheral culture is presented in the spirit of our native traditions but also in an odd way, grotesquely realistically, sadly funny, put CKS OF A MOVIE.The text discusses the nature and functions, the aesthetic and ethical vision of the comedy and its postmodern transformations; the social messages of the Bulgarian comedy film and the phenomenon of the movie script based on literary work. The article problematizes the relations between the commercial cinema product of high quality and the aesthetic value of the contemporary literary work which has turned into classic. The film of Dimitar Mitovski turned out to be a real competitor of the brilliant parody novel of Alek Popov. And the plot of „Mission London“ became a byword for the initially wrong model of the „Bulgarian transition period“. The everlasting theme of We and the Others which has become a mental stereotype of every peripheral culture is presented in the spirit of our native traditions but also in an odd way, grotesquely realistically, sadly funny, publicistically carnival. The reader of the novel and the spectator of the movie ejaculate with one voice: this is impossible because it is...true! From Aleko (Konstantinov) to Alek (Popov) – it‘s all true...

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