Nikolai, Leviathan's hotheaded main character, sees his life consumed by the fight to save his seashore property from the town's mayor. “I'll kill him if he builds a palace here," shouts Nikolai, in a reference to current Russian leaders' proclivity for erecting garish monuments to their personal splendor: Putin's Italianate palace on the Black sea, for example, allegedly cost more than $1 billion.
《利维坦》的主角、脾气暴躁的尼古拉（Nikolai）眼睁睁看着自己的生活沦为与镇长争夺他的海滨产业的斗争。“如果他在那里建造宫室，我就杀了他，”尼古拉叫道，这一幕可以看到当下俄罗斯领导人为其个人成就树立华丽标志物的癖好：比如，普京在黑海营造了一座意大利风格行宫，据说耗资超过10亿美元。