Clearly invoking Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan is a fairly clear - eyed look at the State of Things in
today's Russia, encapsulated in a bitter dispute between
hotheaded mechanic Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov)-- who lives in a house overlooking the coastal town with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and teenage son by a previous marriage — and the corrupt local mayor who has obtained legal authorization to appropriate Kolia's land and demolish his home to make way for a vaguely described «communications center» for the town.