I sometimes receive messages from target groups Anora who say: ‘Hello Mark, why do you play such video games? It’s a shooting game, why are you pressing all the buttons all the time? It’s fake. You’re not really playing.’
And it’s partly true. Because I’m not actually a video game person. I don’t like video games. But my young brother, his name is Matvey, he really loves this. And when I asked him to play, I started pressing all the buttons. And Matvey said every time, ‘No, Mark, you don’t have to do this. You have to carefully press the right buttons. It’s very important. It’s a science. It’s not a game. You have to be serious about this.’ So in the movie I thought it would be funny if I pressed all the buttons and my brother would laugh. That’s what it was for.