Synopsis
450, a military term meaning “all is fine,” is a single, uninterrupted 12-minute shot filmed from inside a moving car.
Through rain-covered glass, night lights and red taillights dissolve into an out-of-focus landscape as we hear a voice message from a Ukrainian filmmaker who went to war. It is clear that he is speaking to a very close friend: beneath the words, we feel a rare, unguarded honesty, as well as warmth and care for the person listening in the car.
He speaks about ballistic missiles, nights under bombardment, death, the absurdity of military bureaucracy, and the ways war fractures everyday life. His voice carries fear, anger and grief, but also drifts unexpectedly toward the ordinary pleasures of life: a hot summer day, a river, friendship, cool water.
Between the title’s promise that “all is fine” and the reality of everything he describes, the film becomes a portrait of a quiet human instinct — to survive, to keep living, and to reach for beauty even when the world around us has become unbearably dark.
Through rain-covered glass, night lights and red taillights dissolve into an out-of-focus landscape as we hear a voice message from a Ukrainian filmmaker who went to war. It is clear that he is speaking to a very close friend: beneath the words, we feel a rare, unguarded honesty, as well as warmth and care for the person listening in the car.
He speaks about ballistic missiles, nights under bombardment, death, the absurdity of military bureaucracy, and the ways war fractures everyday life. His voice carries fear, anger and grief, but also drifts unexpectedly toward the ordinary pleasures of life: a hot summer day, a river, friendship, cool water.
Between the title’s promise that “all is fine” and the reality of everything he describes, the film becomes a portrait of a quiet human instinct — to survive, to keep living, and to reach for beauty even when the world around us has become unbearably dark.
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