The film "Leviathan": there is no justice or fairness in this world anymore

The Russian film Leviathan takes place during the Putin era, something that director Andrey Sagintsev did not try to hide, but gave a large close-up of Putin's photo hanging on the wall while filming the scene in Mayor Vadim's office where Vadim is giving orders over the phone. Some viewers then exclaimed that Putin was such a generous president that, in addition to allowing Andrey Sagintsev to film such a film exposing the corruption of the government under his rule, the Putin government allowed him to send the film to the Cannes Film Festival and was thrilled that it won the 72nd Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
If you just look at the film's exterior, Leviathan is indeed a film that would have disgraced the Putin regime. Far from Moscow and bordering the Barents Sea, in a small, underdeveloped town in northwest Russia, Kolya, who runs an auto repair shop, lives a quiet life with his young, beautiful wife Leah and his son Rome, left behind by his ex-wife who died of an illness. It is only because his home is located in a very beautiful bay with a clear stream running under the window that the mayor, Vadim, has taken a liking to the property and has bought it at a very low price for his own personal use. Not without thinking of resisting, Kolya hired a lawyer from Moscow to be his best friend. When the lawyer dumped the evidence against Mayor Vadim on his desk, he was taken hostage by the mayor and his minions in the middle of nowhere. A bullet that grazes his ear frightens the lawyer, and he leaves Kolya without telling him. He has no choice but to leave without saying goodbye, and in the few days he spends in the small town, he develops a crush on Kolya's young and beautiful wife and becomes intimate with her. Since Leah was hesitant to follow him to Moscow, and since their affair had been broken up by Kolya, wouldn't he have to go down the "slope" that the mayor had frightened him into? Throwing a completely helpless Leah into deeper despair - the mother, always unacceptable to her stepson, leaves Kolya's house in the melancholy blue of the small town before dawn, leaving the viewer with a lonely, dead back after being overheard in bed with her husband and being angrily told to get out. Leah's body is found a few days later. Whether it was a suicide or a homicide and who killed Leah is not explained in Leviathan, but Leah would never have imagined that her death would bring about the end of the life of the man she once loved, Kolya, who threatened to kill Leah when he caught her cheating on him with his lawyer at a picnic. What's the worst that can happen? Not to mention that Kolya gave Mayor Vadim such an obvious chain of evidence. Kolya was sentenced to 15 years in prison and the woman judge who read out the verdict was the same one who read out Kolya's unsuccessful appeal against the mayor's misappropriation of his private property and, like the last time, she poured a long, official speech into Kolya's and our ears in a dry, non-breathy tone. There was no colour to the tiresome judgement, which turned out to be thickly coloured. For Kolya it's a loss of property and 15 years in prison, for us it's a stifling, painful viewing experience. Both the arrogance of Mayor Vadim, who dared to turn covetousness into a conspiracy, and the brutality of the state apparatus that the mayor played with, help us to place the blame for Kolya's tragedy on the shoulders of the Putin government, which, if the Putin regime had so dichotomously accepted Leviathan as a film exposing the corruption of its own regime, I don't think they would have taken such an attitude as to allow the film to be made. Andrey Sagintsev's Leviathan would not have been allowed to 'parade' at the world's best film festivals or film awards. This group of cultured cultural officials saw this scene: after seeing Leah's body lying on the beach, Kolya went to the shop to get drunk and met the priest who was buying bread, and a conversation took place between them.
"Where is your merciful God?"
"Mine is with me. Yours, I don't know. To whom do you pray? I haven't seen you in church for a long time. You don't participate in fasting, in teaching, or in confession."
"Would things be different if I went and lit a candle, or if I finished all those you mentioned? Maybe it's still not too late to start doing that? Could I have brought my wife back from the dead? Can I take back my house? Or is it too late now?"
"I don't know. God is mysterious."
Can you subdue a leviathan with a harpoon? Or do you want to tie a rope around its spitting tongue of fire? Do you think that, in this way, he will yield to you and claim your mercy? Do you think that, in this way, he will speak to you gently? There is nothing in the world that can stand against it; it destroys all pride." The priest concluded. Can Leviathan be subdued with a harpoon? Is Leviathan a fish? No. This beast, which appears in the Bible, has been given several meanings. Andrey Sargentsev chose "Leviathan" as the title of this film, I think, after the famous book by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or the Substance, Form and Rights of the Church State and the Civil State. In this work, Hobbes explores issues such as humanism and the contract theory of the state. Leviathan, in Hobbes's words, the state, the great Leviathan - is an artificially moulded man; of which sovereignty is its soul, and officers its joints ...... fair laws are its reason... ... Leviathan has lost its sanity, and even though Kolya holds justice and wants to seek it, "Can you subdue Leviathan with a harpoon?" In the eyes of the Putin regime, a Leviathan that has lost its mind is more than this small Russian town near the Barents Sea. So Andrey Sagintsev's Leviathan is a film that covers its bases with a point, a film in which the Russian declares to the world that this is a world without justice or fairness. Kolya or Leah, their tragedy can only be the result of fate. Why, only God knows. And God, as always, is mysterious.