Vlad Ivanov

Raphaelle 2022-03-04 08:01:15

"That kid's going to jail seven years for smoking a pot?"
"We just ruined his life?"
"I don't think it's right."
"Sir, they're just a bunch of crazy kids."
"I don't want to be ignorant. Arrest that child with conscience."
 
In Romania, a secret police did not want to arrest a student with...

Rosalee 2022-03-04 08:01:15

"Romanian New Wave" is another award-winning film. As many countries in Eastern Europe after the drastic changes, Romanian films indeed represent many irreconcilable themes of the country and nation in the period of morphological transformation, as well as the chaos and the inner state of the...

Letitia 2022-04-22 07:01:54

[MUBI] Four and a half stars. Like other Romanian New Waves, this film continues the features of natural light and fixed camera in form and aesthetics, while focusing on the performance of time extension, and adding political criticism in the form of black humor: discussing lyrics, eating noodles and discussing dictionaries , and the boss looking for words and other scenes, ranging from three minutes long to ten minutes, are isolated in the middle, and echo the title of the film. The contrast between handwritten reports and dictionaries is also a confrontation between moral law and substantive law. On the one hand, this film is also a reflection of Romanian society, and it is also a philosophical consideration that can cover various places. What is the meaning of us as individuals? In the blurred boundaries, have we rejected a clear definition and deceived ourselves into thinking that we are on the edge? zone. The director gave his own answer, but behind the seemingly clear ending, is it the director or the audience's true thoughts on this matter? The hero's performance is wonderful and convincing!

Virgil 2022-03-04 08:01:15

It almost smells the foreign air, reminiscent of the most distant city scenes in Eastern Europe, neither as friendly as the East, nor unfamiliar to the West. I never feel bored in movies that show "state", but the lyrical feelings that are unreasonable. I don't think the film is targeting any centralization of power, but to any accessory of power, any historical process that reduces human nature. The passing of adjectives is the death knell of any system!