Why do we take selfies? Selfies: positive and negative influences What people call selfies
The word "selfie" has become so firmly established in our lives that it seems as if there have always been numerous pictures of oneself. The fashion for photographing yourself in the most unexpected angles, poses and places has already been recognized as a phenomenon of the 21st century, and the term “selfie” itself was included in the Oxford English Dictionary back in 2013.
The first selfies from space explorers
It is believed that the world's first selfie was taken by American photographer Robert Cornelisus. It happened 127 years ago. Now people are trying to capture themselves in the most unusual and unusual environments on selfies. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin went the farthest in this regard. He took his selfie in space back in 1966 and posted it on social media in 2014.
Buzz Aldrin's popular selfie
However, today you will not surprise anyone even with selfies from Mars, which since 2011 have been successfully taken by the Curiosity rover. Already the fourth photo on the Red Planet was taken on a photo of the Namib sand dune. The picture was created by combining 57 images.
Selfies reveal emotional problems
A selfie is nothing more than a desire to reveal oneself to the world, to declare one's status in society, to simply demonstrate one's significance. American scientists from the University of Florida said that due to the excessive selfie hobby, personal life may suffer.
After studying the life stories of 420 volunteers, they came to the conclusion: the more pictures in social networks, the greater the risk of conflict in relationships in real life. At the same time, selfies are more often taken by those who are satisfied with their appearance, environment and lifestyle.
Not all psychologists tend to see selfies solely as a negative phenomenon. From your own photos on Instagram, you can trace in detail your development. The only question is what the person himself puts at the forefront. This, in fact, gave rise different kinds selfie.
For example, “duck selfies” are very popular, when the focus is on lips with a bow, or even such an absurdity as “scotch selfie” - when all conceivable and inconceivable places are tightly rewound with adhesive tape.
Those who like to demonstrate their butt make Belfi butt-selfies. In this direction, Kim Kardashian undoubtedly surpassed everyone.
Kim Kardashian shocks the public
Suglies or uglies selfie is the opposite of everything that they offer to be touched. Merlin Manson does it best.
Love in the photo as a test of strength
A self-portrait with a loved one or selfie (relfie - relationship selfie) scientists call one of the most annoying types of selfies, pointing out that such photos cause extremely negative emotions in users from a friend feed.
Romance in the frame does not evoke positive emotions for everyone. Reminds me of my own failures?
However, the problem lies much deeper: at the sight of such pictures, the mood deteriorates for those who have not solved their own emotional problems. Joy and empathy are natural. When your own relationship with your partner is satisfying, selfie friends and their romantic social media status will certainly not be annoying.
Selfies are not only love relationship, but also the male body - melfi or man selfie. Men show their body from all angles. A vivid example of this is Nikita Dzhigurda. Well, Sergei Zverev is not far behind him.
Sergey Zverev and flowers from fans
Moreover, you can admire yourself, including during water procedures. Bath selfie reveals a well-made pedicure and a lot of foam. Even more spicy pictures are taken by selfie lovers after sex or after sex selfie. Shufis or shoes selfie - great way demonstrate legs in beautiful shoes against the background of ... anything.
It is important not only where, but also how!
Groufie (group panoramic selfie) was first proposed and patented by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei Ascend P7. With such a phone, a “selfie stick” (handheld selfie monopod) is not needed, since there is a built-in ability to take a picture with a large number of people and the interior.
Famous groofy Hollywood stars
By the way, the selfie stick today is not the only accessory designed to make life easier for amateur photographers. iPhone owners can remotely control the camera using the HISY button, which syncs with the phone via Bluetooth LE. The device will cost $25. Shutterball, which activates the camera on the phone with a simple button, costs about the same.
And Cellfy Stic is convenient because it allows you to completely free your hands. True, you will have to pay almost $ 100 for it. With it, the smartphone can be mounted on any surface, for example, a wall or a mirror in the bathroom, where selfies are often taken. However, such a type of selfie as a “toilet bow” of show business stars and ordinary people is done exclusively with the help of a smartphone.
Elevator, gym and skyscraper top
Selfie lovers strive to surprise not only with their own appearance, but also with the place. Adherents of a healthy lifestyle take a photo (fitness selfie) in gyms, on the beach (bifi or bikini selfie) - in a word, wherever you can demonstrate your great shape. For some, it’s enough just to wake up in the morning to take a smartphone and take another picture (wake up selfie).
Singer Vera Brezhneva is good immediately after waking up
A separate direction of selfie photos is associated with the elevator. Liftoluk is made by ordinary people, show business stars, and politicians. Felfi or farmer selfie means you have farming, which you demonstrate using your smartphone camera. Most, in his absence, are limited to photos with pets.
Sasha Savelyeva with a pet
Some take photos of food, others hunt for selfie lovers
adoring extreme views sports express their emotions in extreme selfies - a real work of art. There are photos from a bird's eye view, underwater shooting, from ski slopes and dangerous jumps during equestrian competitions.
"MK" tried to unravel the phenomenon of the craze for self-photography
The world has been swept by an epidemic of selfies that “mows down” everyone, regardless of age and status. For example, American President Barack Obama is happy to participate in a group selfie - in the company of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmitt! And where? At the farewell ceremony for former South African President Nelson Mandela! And here is Dmitry Medvedev, a big fan of trends, clicking himself in the elevator of the Government House and uploading a photo to the Web. What is the selfie phenomenon? Why are people willing to hurt themselves for it? How to turn a self-made photo portrait into a work of art? Specialists-psychologists, professional photographers and selfie-extremals helped to understand this "MK".
Kirill Oreshkin conquers one of the Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow.
director himself
The word selfie was awarded the title of the main English word year 2013. According to the editors of the Oxford Dictionaries, in a year the frequency of its use - on the English-language Internet - has grown by 17,000%! Tracing paper from him has firmly entered Russian speech use. True, in our country a person who shoots himself on a camera (from his hand, using a tripod or a mirror) and uploads his digital self-portraits to the network is also called a “crossbow”.
The selfie phenomenon is one of the most controversial. Every day, he has new subspecies: there are "selfies" of those who like to take pictures of themselves, being tipsy, in the bathroom or immediately after sex; there are followers of scotch selfies who, before capturing their face, thoroughly disfigure it by tying it with duct tape. And there are extreme people who are ready to put their lives on the line for the sake of a good shot. Or, as a background for your selfie, take ... the corpse of a stranger, brought for an autopsy.
Some selfies succeed in their efforts, becoming real generals of the genre (we will talk about one of them below). But the vast majority are nameless infantry, diligently perpetuating their every move, but at the same time not being able to really articulate why they are doing it. And is there any reflection needed? Click - and it's in the bag ...
Russian Spider from the roofs of the capital
19-year-old Kirill Oreshkin is known far beyond his accounts. He is - without exaggeration - the star of the world Internet in the extreme selfie genre. Americans and Europeans make films about him. No collection is complete without his photographs. Some of the Western fans, enthusiastically applauding the crazy guy from the Russian capital, awarded him the nickname Russian Spider. The nickname has stuck on the web. Like Kirill - on Moscow rooftops. Just don't try to repeat Oreshkin's tricks! You only need to look at his selfie to understand how dangerous it is.
Kirill, what are you risking for?
- For the sake of pleasure, a sense of freedom and unusual shots. But believe me, I rarely take risks. I always proceed with caution. And in general, sometimes it’s more difficult to get to a place of interest to you than to take a couple of shots there.
Kirill began to climb roofs from the age of 14. At first, these were the high-rise buildings of the relatives of Perov and Novogireev, then, when he was thoroughly involved, he began to penetrate much more serious objects. For example, Stalin's skyscrapers and Moscow City towers.
For each of the conquered peaks, Kirill takes with him either a camera phone or a camera.
- What is the point of doing only panoramas if I can take a picture myself against their background? - reasonably remarks Cyril. But he does not consider himself a "crossbow". Unlike American actor Will Ferrell, who posted a photo of Kirill to his Twitter last winter with the words: “This guy won the selfie game.” The photo quickly went viral on the Internet. At the same time, the Russian Spider learned, in fact, what the word “selfie” means.
Now Kirill is busy capitalizing his hobby. In particular, he wants to sell his photos. Applications, he says, are from different parts of the world, but he prefers not to talk about the approximate cost of one frame.
lonely beauty
According to Oreshkin, those who do not differ in originality, but want to stand out, fall for the “crossbow”. Some are sucked into the process.
Professional photographer Pyotr Lovygin has a different point of view. He is sure that, first of all, beautiful people are at risk, but for some reason they need confirmation of their beauty.
“I asked a few of my friends, whose Instagram is 85% selfies, why they do it,” says Peter. One replied: "To attract men." But such tactics are more likely to scare away than to attract. This, as it were, indicates that the girl loves only herself in this life and is hardly capable of loving anyone else. Another said something like this: “I have no moral right to hide my beauty from the world. This is what I call generosity and mercy towards subscribers.”
And this is in all seriousness! Well, almost completely...
However, there is a more or less objective reason for selfie mania. According to Petr Lovygin, users of the same Instagram like to like someone's face, someone's photo portrait, than an abstract photo. And “likes” for a user in the virtual are, apparently, surrogates of those very “psychological strokes” that each of us so much needs in reality.
“I noticed that my selfie, my portrait on the social network gain more likes than my art work. Therefore, for example, it is much more profitable for me to print my own image on advertising posters than some of my works, ”notes Peter.
Scotch selfie fans disfigure their faces with duct tape before taking their picture.
Daffodils of the 21st century
If in one case a selfie is an innocent prank, in the other case it is dangerous, then for 19-year-old Danny Bowman from the English Newxal, whose story has spread all over the world, this fun has become an obsession. One day, the boy unsuccessfully went to a model casting, after which he set out to take the perfect photo of himself. And away we go! Danny sometimes took up to 200 selfies a day, filming his face almost non-stop for hours on end. Then he decided to lose weight, deciding that thinness would add charm to him. But the super selfie stubbornly failed. Then Bowman tried to commit suicide, and if it were not for the mother, who secretly looked after her son, everything would have ended sadly. Now, Danny, who has completed addiction treatment at the clinic, is trying to return to normal life. Among American psychiatrists, voices are beginning to be heard that self-admiration through selfies should be recognized as a mental disorder, an obsession.
However, Russian experts do not yet see any particular cause for concern.
According to psychologist Natalya Varskaya, if a person who somewhat abuses photographing himself continues to live his usual life, devotes time to relatives, friends, earns money, then this is nothing more than a fashionable hobby. Selfie aficionados, on the other hand, are people with a certain personality type.
- We are dealing with modern version known since ancient times, the phenomenon of narcissism, - says the doctor of medical sciences, an employee of the GNTSSSP them. Serbian Fedor Kondratiev. - Unless, taking into account technological progress, now you need to look not at water or a mirror, but at the camera lens. Often, "narcissists" are vain people, selfish, narcissistic, indifferent to other people's problems. They put their “I” in the center of the universe. Hence the endless self-photography, replication of one's photo with the sole purpose of asserting oneself.
Alexander Kuznetsov, president of the Association of Child Psychologists, agrees with his colleague: “Selfie most easily subjugates people with hysterical accentuation of character, prone to demonstrative behavior. Demonstrativeness is more inherent in women, since by their nature they tend to please men. And that's okay - that's their way of survival. In men, hysteria is less common, but in more severe forms. By the way, brother selfie - exhibitionism, which is also recognized as one of the manifestations of hysteria.
Alexander Kuznetsov often has to deal with patients who have a history of self-mania, among other things.
- But a person does not come to the reception with the words: "I have a problem, I take pictures of myself and I can't stop." He comes with complaints about relationship problems, continues Alexander Kuznetsov. - Basically, these are women 20-30 years old, focused on themselves. And when a person is so fixated on his outer shell and how to present it, on confirming that everyone loves him, hardly anyone wants to be friends and live with him. And he feels bad wherever he is: both in the team and in the family. This is the unfortunate one who falls into a trap: suffering because of an increased need for attention and love from others and at the same time choosing such ways to achieve this goal, because of which everyone scatters from him.
In general, the sooner the not-so-healthy attraction to selfies is noticed (when a person takes pictures of himself several times a day), the better. Psychologists can adapt people with such a problem by directing their views towards a public career. For example, in politics, cinema or show business. There, these people will feel like a fish in water and will be able not only to show themselves to the world in all their glory, but also to bring all possible benefits to society.
Moscow does not like to smile
One of the most competent specialists in the field of selfies is a professor at the City University of New York, writer, programmer, artist Lev Manovich, who studies modern digital culture with its trends and patterns.
Together with his colleagues, he uses Instagram material to understand if there are cultural differences in selfies taken in different cities and countries. Along the way, other interesting things are discovered.
- Often, selfies are taken as portraits that are actually made by other people. There are only 4% of real selfies on Instagram,” says Lev. And almost all of them are made by young people. Only 10% are accounted for by those who are 30+. At the same time, selfies of women in this age category are less common than men's.
According to Lev Manovich, the period of selfie enthusiasm coincides with the age when a person begins to look for a marriage partner. For Moscow, this is 25-26 years, for New York - 26-27, for Bangkok - 21-22.
There were other finds as well. So, the Thai capital is characterized by a small - about 20% - prevalence of girlish selfies over portraits of young people. We can say that the gender indicator is more or less balanced. A similar picture is observed in some other capitals. But in Moscow - and this, according to Manovich, is an exceptional option - there are five (!) times more female "crossbows" on Instagram than male ones. It is curious that our beautiful young ladies prefer to shoot themselves in the manner of glossy models - strictly, gracefully, without a shadow of a smile. Unlike ours, Brazilian Sao Paulo residents are very fond of showing pearls of their teeth in the frame, but selfies from Tokyo often lower their eyes in photographs, as if embarrassed by what they are doing.
There are not so many extravagant, shocking selfies on the Web as it seems at first glance. “It's just that what deviates from the norm is more striking and more readily replicated by other users,” says Lev Manovich. Also exaggerated in the mass consciousness is the number of those who can be called selfie addicts.
Learn to spin selfie novels
You don't have to go crazy to stand out from the crowd of digital self-portraits. Rather, on the contrary, you need to turn on the brain, and then you can get something really tasty and conceptual.
Selfies can make history. Let it be a lot of frames, united by some interesting plot. They need to be released gradually. Then people will wait for each new photo, and you will find your viewer, advises Petr Lovygin.
Lips with a bow or a duck are vulgar, and “crossbows”, on which a person shoots himself in profile and hopes that everyone will decide that someone quietly took him off in this “cool pensive pose”, will frankly make everyone laugh versed in photography. Where self-irony looks much more pleasant in the frame.
Want to really surprise? Buy yourself a manual tripod. It is inexpensive, but what scope for imagination opens up!
Finally, you can try to communicate with someone in the language of a selfie, when instead of words there are only emotions captured by the lens.
By the way, there are examples that selfies help people in moments of psychological crises. Some use self-photography as psycho-correction - in order to accept and love their appearance or overcome shyness, for others it to some extent compensates for the lack of career success, for others it simply cheers up. The main thing is not to forget about the sense of proportion in your experiments.
The summer of 2015 is shocking every now and then with news of deaths and injuries resulting from: the guy wanted to capture himself on the bridge and broke; the girl accidentally shot herself while taking a picture with a gun; a man wanted to take a picture next to a feeding camel and got a head injury from a camel's hoof, etc.
Why people are addicted to selfies
Psychologists are sounding the alarm. The percentages of social media addiction are skyrocketing. It's all about the lack of adequate self-esteem. A person who does not receive the necessary share of communication in real life replaces real friends with virtual ones. How to keep the attention of new acquaintances? Of course, photographs.
Applications for photo processing allow you to even out the tone of the face and so on, and there is a substitution of an adequate opinion about yourself: “What a beauty I am (what a handsome man I am)!” The growing numbers of "likes" and "classes" delivered only add fuel to the fire. A person becomes dependent on his own popularity and other people's opinions in a matter of seconds. A psychological complex of narcissism develops, when narcissism covers everything around.
How to understand that a person is addicted to selfies
Teenagers aged 11-16 and single people are especially prone to selfie craze. You can judge photographing when a person puts in social network more than 10 photos every hour or two. All photos, as a rule, do not differ in the diversity of the plot and are self-portraits in different poses and against different backgrounds.
Why is selfie dangerous?
In addition to selfies, there is a massive hobby for selfie - photographing yourself with your dog / cat or loved one. Selfie lovers are also driven by the desire to stand out from the crowd and put their happiness on public display. As a result - human envy, negativity, etc.
An extremely negative comment can cause aggression or even hysteria in the author of the photo. Frequent mood swings: "Today I have fewer classes than yesterday ..." lead to stable neuroses.
The desire to take a good photo where no one has been before leads a person to a state close to gamers as a feeling of a big win. Failure only provokes selfie lovers and completely turns off the instinct of self-preservation. Hence the extreme desire to be photographed on the roof, in flight, etc.
How to cure selfie addiction
Bans and harsh criticism are useless. Selfie addiction is treated in the same way as any other addiction - you need to contact a psychologist or psychotherapist.
The Instagram feed has changed and the world will never be the same. From now on, the popularity of your posts depends not only on how beautiful and interesting they are, but also on whether your followers like these posts. Of course, every Instagrammer is now occupied with one question: how to make my posts actively like?
Rumor has it that people like selfies more than other photos, and it is selfies that get the most likes on Instagram. Is it so? To understand, I conducted an experiment in my personal account @naoblakax.
What is a selfie?
A selfie is a photo that you take of yourself by taking a photo of yourself through the front camera on your phone or by taking a picture of yourself in a mirror. This type of photography is also called “crossbow” or “self”.
People around the world have become so addicted to selfies that sometimes they even fall off cliffs and get hit by cars, and some scientists consider selfie addiction a mental disorder. In TV series they joke about selfies, in the news they warn, friends tease us, and now we are already very embarrassed to point the camera at ourselves and take a photo. I can honestly admit: I am ashamed to take selfies. But I am working on myself and for the sake of the experiment (and, of course, only for the sake of it) I began to post selfies on my Instagram.
How to take a beautiful selfie
As for a good photo in a personal account there are several rules, the observance of which will help you take a not entirely shameful, and maybe even completely successful photo of yourself.
Light
Successful light is the key to the success of any photo. The best light is natural, so the most beautiful selfies are usually taken outdoors. But on the street, it’s much more embarrassing to make them: you really don’t want to seem like a fool, “TP” and that’s all that passers-by will certainly think of you. Passers-by about the experiment will not explain.
I try to take street selfies very quickly and very discreetly. There is no time to pose and choose the angle. Therefore, they are rarely successful. And they rarely do.
Taking selfies at home is much more comfortable. Here you can retire, snap a hundred frames and then choose one that you are not ashamed to upload to Instagram. You are lucky if you have a bright apartment with designer renovation. If not, then a window and a curtain will save you!
Stand in front of the window so that daylight falls on your face evenly, close the curtain and enjoy the photo session.
Makeup
Naturalness is good! But not always and not for everyone. Sometimes even stars sin with makeup-free marathons, but if you are not a star yet, but for now you are only planning to become one, then before taking a selfie, critically examine yourself.
Glitter, a second (and subsequent) chin, pimples and bags under the eyes - as a rule, this is not what people crave to see in their feeds and what they willingly like. However, there are exceptions. If you deliberately go against the system, participate in a flash mob, or post photos for some other, ideological, reasons, then hairy armpits may be appropriate.
You don't have to be the perfect supermodel. A little foundation, powder, mascara and now the makeup is ready, which, as it were, does not exist at all (but it does exist). And, of course, filters were not invented in vain, they color better than the most expensive cosmetics!
Men are easier in this regard. Unshaven, shaggy, half-awake for them is rather an advantage and an extra point to brutality. You don't have to worry too much and just be yourself. Although among men there are adherents of make-up art.
Pose and angle
Every self-respecting selfie master knows his “lucky side”. I personally have not yet figured out how this side is determined correctly, but I can say for sure that there are successful and unsuccessful angles. And here the angles are determined quite simply.
If you have a pimple on your right cheek, then today your lucky side is the left and the angle is appropriate. If you have a double chin, raise your hand with the phone higher and shoot from above. If you raise your hand higher and shoot from above - pull in your stomach!
When you take a picture of yourself, you get into the frame at best waist-deep. And here you can’t really experiment with poses, so, as a rule, hands are used. You can do a lot of things with them! Rest your chin, prop your cheek, ruffle your hair, throw it over your head ... It seems nothing special, but the photos are already different.
The background is important. And the photophone is not always what lies on your floor and what you take beautiful photos, both a wall and a curtain, which has already been mentioned, can be a photophone.
In the case of a wall, the bad thing is that no matter how close it is to the window, the light will fall unevenly, and one side will be in shadow.
And in the case of a curtain, the bad thing is that it hangs very close to the window. It turns out that it is inconvenient to take a photo on an outstretched arm (it rests against the window) and it is inconvenient to move further (the fabric is stretched and it looks ugly in the frame). What solution? Experiment and each time choose the best option in this particular case.
An experience
As with anything, selfies require experience. If you constantly practice, then over time you will be able to make a not so stupid face, it will become clear how far you need to stretch your arm to make it look beautiful, there will be your “successful” side and the perfect filter.
At first, it took me about 15 minutes to take one normal selfie photo. Now in 15 minutes I can take about 10 successful shots.
My Selfie Experiment: Do Selfies Get More Likes?
It is believed that selfies collect more likes than other photos on Instagram. And from the point of view of logic, it is quite obvious why selfies are liked. A like is a sign of approval, a kind of compliment. Of course, the face of a friend (albeit a virtual one) is more likely to be complimented (at least out of politeness) than a cup, a book, or legs. And in an era of decline in activity, natural likes are becoming more relevant than ever, so I decided to conduct an experiment and find out: do selfies really like more than non-selfies?
Initial data:
- I usually don't post selfies. More than 30 weeks passed between the first selfie as part of the experiment and the previous one, which appeared naturally.
- With a good angle and lighting, I'm quite pretty.
- Taking selfies even at home is very embarrassing for me and it takes a lot of time. In addition, my house is dark for most of the day and most of the year, so for a photo shoot you need to manage to snatch those 10 minutes when the light enters the apartment. (Sometimes it happens that you wait all morning for dawn to take a picture, and in the evening you realize that it has not dawned all day).
The first selfie turned out, frankly, dumb. But you had to start somewhere. Post received 343 likes.
Selfie in a dark cinema came out with bad light, but a good face. However, it took only 363 likes. But the envelopes on the photophone collected a hundred more - 470 !
Of the eight selfies posted as part of the experiment, the best was collected by 455 likes. But this is not the maximum among the posts! Here is a photo with a book liked more 600 times. The difference between the posts is one day, and the book was published later.
What conclusion can I draw? With me, the hypothesis that selfies gain more likes was not confirmed. Maybe I'm not selfie-beautiful enough. Perhaps my audience loves my lyrics more than my face. And it is quite possible that the results of your experiment will be different. (Try it and let us know how it went!). But nevertheless, I felt the beauty of selfies and will continue to use them, because I found a number of advantages in them.
Why are selfies useful?
Instagram content
Selfies are content that is always with you. Couldn't take a photo ahead of time? Post a selfie! Nothing to photograph? Post a selfie! Your service cannot be photographed? Post a selfie! Need to release an urgent post? Post a selfie!!!
Content you don't mind removing
Sometimes there are situations when you need to publish a temporary post and Stories not suitable for this. For example, if you have agreed with someone about mutual PR or you need to post some kind of announcement. For such cases, a selfie is perfect.
A selfie is your photo, so it's more welcome to your followers than a photo provided by your PR partner, for example. And later it’s not a pity to delete such a post, because selfies are content that is always with you, you can easily take at least a million more similar photos.
Personal component
Instagram loves and appreciates personalities. From time to time it is worth flickering even in a business account so that subscribers know who they are buying from and who they are asking questions. If there is no time and budget for a professional photo session, then a selfie may well be an alternative.
I am ending the experiment and will no longer count likes on selfie posts. But I won't stop posting selfies! Thanks to the experiment, I improved my selfie skill and realized how convenient it is to have a couple of my photos in stock.
And with the advent of frequent selfies, male subscribers began to comment on me! So I found out that I even have them)) And I got a new interesting audience with which to work (I haven’t figured out how yet, but it’s a matter of time).
Do you post selfies on your accounts? Do they get more likes than other photos? I would be grateful if you share your experience in the comments!
The genre of "psychological thriller" is quite new for Russian cinema. The creators of the new film "Selfie" were not afraid to work in this direction, and for good reason. The film was created based on the bestseller by Sergei Minaev “Spiritless of the 21st century. Selfie" and is in no way connected with his previous books.
A team of professionals consisting of producers Fyodor Bondarchuk and Petr Anurov, as well as writer Sergei Minaev, has already become popular and fairly well-established. The fusion of these people guarantees the creation of a film that will be a resounding success with the audience. Fans remember very well their joint work "Duhless" and "Duhless 2". For the first time director Nikolai Khomeriki tried to join this magnificent trio. What came out of it is up to the viewer to decide.
The premiere of the film is February 1, 2018.
Genre: psychological thriller.
Timing - 112 min.
Since the picture "Selfie" is a complete story, the continuation of this project should not be expected.
Plot
The main character Vladimir Bogdanov is a successful TV presenter and writer. It’s just that he stopped enjoying his profession on television a long time ago, but truly good book he wrote 7 years ago. Everything goes smoothly: nightclubs, girls, booze and drugs, friends…
Every day is like the previous one. But everything disappears from under Bogdanov's feet in an instant. Suddenly, he sees on TV on his program ... not himself. This someone talks like him, gestures like him, does everything like him. Now, day after day, it will not be he who will bathe in fame, money, success, but the other one. It is at this moment that Bogdanov realizes that only tinsel has always surrounded him. Pseudo friends do not see the difference in the substitution, the ex-wife begins to perceive him differently, suggesting that the time for good changes in family relationships has finally come.
The new Bogdanov is perceived better than the real one. What will happen now? How to continue to live? Getting into a psychiatric hospital, the attending physician asks a question that baffles the protagonist: “What makes you think that YOU are the real one?”
Throughout the film, the viewer will be wondering: “What is happening to the main character? Clouding of reason or mystical power?
Will there be a Selfie part 2?
After the creation of the film "Selfie", director Nikolai Khomeriki said that he did not intend to stop there. And if worthwhile material falls into his hands, he will get to work and begin to make good films again.
Well, since the picture "Selfie" is a complete story, then Can't wait for this project to continue.. But we, the audience, will look forward to the joint work of Khomeriki, Minaev, Bondarchuk and Anurov again. After all, Sergei Minaev did not announce the end of his writing career ...
Actors and roles
- Konstantin Khabensky as writer and TV presenter Vladimir Bogdanov, who, having everything, suddenly becomes nothing thanks to the appearance of a double.
- Anna Mikhalkova as Vika ex-wife Main character.
- Fedor Bondarchuk as Max best friend Bogdanov.
- Yulia Khlynina as Jeanne, Bogdanov's assistant and girlfriend.
Filmmakers
- Directed by Nikolai Khomeriki.
- Operator - Vladislav Opelyants.
- Producers - Petr Anurov, Fedor Bondarchuk.
- In fact, two endings were created in this film: one proposed by the author of the book, the other by the director.
- Creator of the book Spiritless of the 21st century. Selfie ”Sergey Minaev plays a small episodic role in the film - a seller of books on the train.
- The book did not say that the daughter of the Bogdanovs, Dasha, was engaged in fencing. This amendment was made when writing the script. She draws a parallel between the main character fighting with himself and fencing, where competing athletes, due to their equipment, are like each other, like two drops of water.
- Filming took place in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as in the Hooligan nightclub, the Moscow City Business Center and other popular locations.
- The scenes in the psychiatric hospital were filmed in real life. medical institution, but in a non-functioning case.
- Before the start of filming, Sergei Minaev gave a psychiatrist to study his script in order to eliminate errors and inconsistencies with reality.
- The cinematographer of the film Vladislav Opelyants is the favorite operator of the eminent actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov. Opelyants is famous for his works "Burnt by the Sun-2: Anticipation", "12", "State Councilor", "Student", "Goddess: How I Loved", "Poddubny".
- Konstantin Khabensky was destined to star in the title role. When discussing Sergei Minaev and one of the producers of the film about the candidate for the role of Bogdanov, both leaned towards the actor Khabensky. The conversation took place at Minaev's dacha. By coincidence, on that very day, the construction team brought a new customer to his site (of course, with the consent of the writer) to evaluate the construction of houses by their company using the example of Minaev's house. These customers turned out to be Khabensky. Minaev was not at a loss, got acquainted and handed over the script to the actor for consideration. A few days later, Khabensky gave a positive answer.