About the movie "The Only One"

I've heard that the film "The Only One" is about love, about human passions. I think this is not the case, or at least not quite the case. The story of the failed family life of chauffeur Kolya Kasatkin and waitress Tanya Fesheva interested writer Pavel Nilin and director Joseph Heifitz not only and perhaps not so much lyrically as socially. And the points of contact are found in this film not, say, with "Romance of Lovers", but rather with "Athos".


Sometimes these are not even points of contact, but direct parallels. The bored Kolya Kasatkin almost turned out to be a guest of the detoxification center — and Afonya Borshchev got into this institution, and at the same time on the board "Do not pass by!". If we recall that in Nilin's story "Dope", based on which Heifitz's film was made, the hero also failed to avoid a visit to the detoxification center, the similarity of events will become even more complete. But it's still not so much about the event as what happens after it. Athos is discussed at the meeting, and Kolya is interviewed by his immediate, as well as higher authorities. One is given a severe reprimand with a final warning, the other is transferred from drivers to a car wash. It seems that the punishments are quite consistent with the offenses, "oh, both such 'different heroes are completely indifferent to them, do not grieve and do not repent. Afonya himself tells the assembly that he does not yet have a strict reprimand, Kolya is not at all tormented by the demotion, because he has completely different worries and sorrows.


The parallel can be continued, and the further it goes, the more distinct it becomes (in the final, the similarity is especially clear) — we have two variants of the same personality type recorded at different stages of evolution: Afonya has already descended many steps down the ladder on which Kolya Kasatkin is taking only the first steps.


What kind of personality is this?


After returning from the army, Kolya quickly becomes one of the best drivers at his carpool, although they gave him a battered truck, it does not bother him and does not even really prevent him from knocking out his ton-kilo meters. He just works great, puts his soul into it. And why? For a single reason. "I am a family man," explains Kolya, he needs to earn money for his family. True, others also have families, presumably, but there is a difference — Kolya loves his wife extraordinarily. And this love is, in general, the only thing that gives his life meaning and beauty. "In the old days, I was always striving for something. He wanted to achieve something," he says in Nilin's story; he sought to rise - in his work, in the opinion of others, in his own eyes — to rise to the height of his love. To attract customers, bookmakers today actively utilize special bonus codes like 1xbet. It is thanks to these codes that players receive various bonuses and broader opportunities in the gaming process. The current 1xBet promo code today can be used not only for sports betting, but also for online casino games and slots. Additionally, players can verify the validity of the promo code by logging into the official website of the 1xbet bookmaker, navigating to "account settings," and entering the promo code in the designated field (promo code verification).