Ako je prvo pravilo Fight club-a da se o njemu nikad ne priča, onda je prvo pravilo društva pacana da se pacan nikad ne izvinjava.

Radnja serije je smeštena 80-ih godina u Kazanju i prati sukob uličnih bandi. Serija je rađena prema dokumentarnoj knjizi novinara Roberta Garajeva Reč pacana – Kriminal u Tatarstanu 1970-2010 i u Rusiji je stekla toliku popularnost da su glumci putem društvenih mreža morali da podsećaju današnju omladinu da ne imitiraju likove u seriji. Ova serije zapravo predstavlja pred-nastavak čuvene ruske serije Sašina ekipa (Brigada) koja bila popularna u vreme odrastanja roditelja današnje ruske omladine.

Serija produkcijski prilagođena današnjoj omladini koja ne dozvoljava previše praznog hoda u narativu (u prva četri minuta je predstavljenja tematika serije i glavni junaci odmah uvedeni u zaplet) i čija pažnja zahteva da serija mora biti dinamična a to je npr. postignuto ubacivanjem muzičkih sekvenci dve pesme koja se provlače skoro u svakoj epizodi:

Čitajući kritike serije shvatio sam da svi obrađuju društveno-politčki kontekst uličnih badni tadašnjeg vremena, ali niko ne spominje grozni odnos ruskog društva prema žrtvi silovanja što je obrađeno u 6. epizodi serije.

Ako si pacan ili pacanka onda je ovo serija za tebe, u suprotnom pogledate seriju da biste pacani postali.

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If the first rule of Fight Club is to never talk about it, then the first rule of the pacans society is that a pacan never apologizes.

The plot of the series is set in the 1980s in Kazan and follows the conflict between street gangs. The series is based on a documentary book by journalist Robert Garayev, A Gangster’s Word: Crime in Tatarstan 1970-2010, and it became so popular in Russia that the actors had to remind the youth on social media not to imitate the characters in the show. This series actually serves as a prequel to the famous Russian series Sasha’s Crew (Brigada), which was popular during the upbringing of today’s Russian youth’s parents.

The series is production-wise adapted for today’s youth, who don’t tolerate too much dead space in the narrative (in the first four minutes, the theme of the series is introduced and the main characters are instantly drawn into the plot). The attention span of today’s audience demands that the series be dynamic, which, for instance, is achieved by inserting musical sequences of two songs that in almost every episode.

Reading the reviews of the series, I realized that everyone is focusing on the socio-political context of street gangs during that time, but no one mentions the terrible attitude of Russian society towards victims of rape, which is addressed in episode 6 of the series.

If you’re a gangster (pacan) or a gangster girl (pacanka), then this is the series for you; otherwise, watch the series to become one.