Igor Petrenko as Pechorin in a 2006 Russian TV adaptation of A Hero of our Time I agree with all of his opinions.” “In Rust Cohle we trust.” Another tweet obviously referred to Lermontov’s novel: “Rust Cohle is a hero of our time.” “Rust Cohle and BBC’s Sherlock - sociopaths - are the new sweethearts for modern girls.” “Rust Cohle is very cool. “Rust Cohle makes smoking look so sexy,” someone else tweeted, posting a picture of Cohle with a cigarette. “Rust Cohle is my spirit animal” tweeted a popular blogger from Moscow. Russians on Twitter went insane after the show aired. Cohle’s monologues could have belonged to Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, the Byronic anti-hero of Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of our Time (1840) - if he happened to find himself in Louisiana in the 21st century working for the State Homicide Unit and with a penchant for exquisite swearing, that is. The superfluous man is talented (Cohle is an extremely gifted detective), has a disregard for social values, is cynical, and exhibits a lack of sympathy and an existential boredom. This type of character, which takes its name from Ivan Turgenev’s 1850 novella The Diary of a Superfluous Man, might also be described as a Byronic or Romantic hero. The “superfluous man” is one of the most important archetypes in 19th-century Russian literature. But as long as they hadn’t skipped literature classes in high school, McConaughey’s new incarnation would have been familiar to them. Russian fans of The Wedding Planner were suddenly faced with a rural American noir detective. LET’S SAY “NO” TO THIS UNIVERSAL DELUSION.”Ī lot has been written about Matthew McConaughey’s transformation from romcom sweetheart into brooding antihero. The honourable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. We are things that labour under the illusion of having a self an accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact: “I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. “Vote for Rust Cohle! Candidate for Caracosa County. The Russian blogger Duran even photoshopped an election flyer, in time for the country-wide municipal elections in Russia, with actual quotes from the show posing as election promises: Some may even claim that his bitterness reflects that of young Russians, with their constant awareness of new restrictions imposed by the government. It’s no secret that the Russian television audience likes its heroes dark, philosophical and well-spoken. Rust Cohle, the character played by Matthew McConaughey in True Detective, has found a special place in the hearts of young Russians.Īt first glance, it might seem strange - why would Russian twentysomethings sympathise so much with a haunted, cynical detective from the Deep South? In fact, Rust Cohle has a closer affinity with Russian cultural history than most of the characters currently written for Russian TV.
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