The last he needs to hear is that he also isn’t a man enough outside of his marriage. His highly pregnant wife Zhanna ( Asel Kaliyeva) doesn’t stop nagging, she’s questioning his manhood, and life is hell. The message the scriptwriters of ‘Sweetie You Won’t believe It’ wanted to pass to us is Dastan’s wish to reverse the emasculation he is subjected to. When one of the three lead characters Dastan ( Daniyar Alshinov) gets a phone-call from his bank interrupting his shopping, one of the things the female clerk asks him is if he’s not man enough to pay back what he owes. In that way, a sort of (gender) balance gets established, if not always quite intentionally.
Things happen because they are neither talented for crime nor daily practicalities and barely capable of finding a logical solution to a problem. And what all of them have in common is clumsiness. Baddies are always hilarious to watch in their exaggerated fashion choices, scruffy hairdos or poor body hygiene, and good guys have to find their inner Tarzan. As in most of recent Kazakh fiction films, masculinity plays part of the prank regardless of the type of role it houses in. The good news is that there is a flip side of the same coin. On the other hand, as mentioned before – this isn’t anything new or geographically conditioned, and there are attempts to flatten it out which aren’t always fortunate. Although not flawless, Yernar Nurgaliyev’s venture into the risky domain of blending comedy with horror and the local with ‘the western’, proves to be fantastic.Īrchaic is the representation of women as annoying and nagging creatures that men simply have to get away from, hence the movie’s title which is, so to speak, a wee spoiler. At the same time, it is as Kazakh as it can be, on one side mirroring the societal norms and values, and on the other a land-specific humor. Echoing the tropes from popular films around the turn of the millennium, ‘Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It’ is borrowing bits and pieces from many places, becoming a cabinet of curiosities of sorts.
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