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30 films by 30 directors conceptually combined into 10 thematic essays. Bertrand Blier, Ruben Östlund, Roman Polanski, Alex van Warmerdam, Thomas Winterberg, Christian Petzold, Elem Klimov, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Lars von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, Yorgos Lanthimos, Orson Welles, Louis Malle, Oliver Stone and other masters of thoughtful cinema illustrate the author's reflections on freedom and enmity, protest and violence, heroism and mediocrity, the future and infantilism. The book also includes the philosophical cycle "Risky Exposure", laying out being in the coordinates of functionality/security and aesthetics/exposure. A person is presented here as a confrontation of antagonistic aspirations on examples from the iconic paintings of the world cinematography.