This book, which is somewhat final for the author, includes works of different years, united by one theme: how a work of art, be it a film, theatrical production or literary text, reveals certain meanings, which allows you to isolate these meanings, as well as how these meanings relate to the system of concepts, aesthetic and philosophical. Some of the published texts were at one time the first steps in domestic criticism in the development of subsequently generally recognized topics, such as, for example, the poetics of the "theater of cruelty" by Antonin Artaud, which was subsequently learned by cinema.