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deckard.
i'm 100% sure those doctors were real doctors. that douchey god-complex cannot be imitated.Boromir Lives
Some of the most realistic acting i've ever seen. So good i even questioned whether these were actually actors or just real peopleTorgo
First of all: This is a drama, bitter and of not less than 2,5 hours length. Yes, there's an absurd element to it, the bureaucracy and behavior of people in charge often is kafaesque, sometimes reminding us of a dismal ER version of the legendary Asterix sequence, but still: it's a drama.Tricking your audience into believing they'll get a (black) comedy of the sorts the cover promises is misleading, come on.
Nonetheless - strong film, so frustrating and so very real (apparently not only to people from Romania and not only Eastern Europe ..). The director suffered from hypochondria before; if you're concerned by medical situations, this movie might quite stress you out for its whole runtime. Beware.
koldhjertet
In my opinion, to understand and appreciate this movie you need to experience eastern european health care to some extent.Also, the movie takes place in Bucharest, not Budapest, though they give an honorary mention to the protagonist's "arrogant" wife, Erzsi, which I thought was kind of petty..
Gecekurdu
The performances of each roles in this movie are outstanding...Limbesdautomne
A nurse endless dedication to his patient in a Kafkaesque Romania. A road movie on a stretcher. Diagnostic: Perfect.Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers.
-1flb2-
I know there is bureaucracy in the health industry, but this takes it to whole new level. People have commented on the class system in regards to the patient being a poor drunk, but what about the class system among the doctors, nurses, and the EMTs. This movie takes place in Budapest, but this medical nightmare could happen anywhere. The moral is don't get sick and get caught in the medical machinery.toopsy
This has been misclassified as a dark comedy, when there is no comedy in it whatsoever. It is a superbly realistic drama. We are slowly introduced to the man as he happens to be waiting for ambulance, and he's real to the core - a retired engineer whose wife died years ago, he lives in a modest, cluttered apartment keeping three cats for company, tending to his flowerpots and drinking himself to death due to the pervasive loneliness. He is a gentle soul, but to the outside world he is a poor old man with nothing left to offer, basically ignored by his surroundings. His longtime neighbours, as much as they pity the wreck that he's become, clearly retain some of the respect towards him, still referring to him (perhaps partly mockingly) as 'Mr engineer' and 'intellectual'.Knowing more about him than doctors and nurses to which he is no more than an irresponsible drunkman, we are bound to emphatize seeing him treated with little or no respect at each of his arrivals to the three different hospitals. The movie is an exercise in patience not only due to the realistic display of the uneffective Romanian healthcare system, but also the egotistical medical staff determined to remain unhurried and unconcerned despite the emergency.
The detail I was particularly fond of is how he repeated his name on request, "Lazarescu Dante Remus", on multiple occasions throughout the movie, but each time with less vigour, until his condition deteriorated so much that he couldn't even understand the request. Somehow this felt very personal to me. He's pronounced that name so many times in his life, same as each of us pronounce ours in our day-to-day lives. It is who we are, his was who he was. It instilled a sense of closeness and made him feel dearer to me, for which it only made it harder to watch him being mistreated.
Another detail that touched me was what he blabbed about semiconsciously while lying on the stretcher. It was about how he went to the market the other day to exchange the flower seeds he bought, as they had sold him the wrong kind of seed. :( How so very real...
If you like this movie, there's another one from Romania that you might also like: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2007).
max-scl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gzd6bv_imIShingwauk
I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. Still nuthin funny.chryzsh
Terrific movie! Is has a ton of momentum so don't be scared of the length.daisyaday
This is drama, not comedy. There is nothing funny in this movie because they were not making a comedy. It is a statement about how a drunk, elderly, lonely, sick man is treated by health care professionals and I find it mesmerizing. Maybe one needs to be old and sick to understand it.RosePlantQueen
I think what's confusing people is this is a black comedy, where the jokes are all in the suffering of others and are not always upfront.stellaslove
I actually hated this movie, it was boring, slow-moving and at nearly 3 hours, went way too long (ofcourse if it was a GOOD movie, it would have been ok). Both my friend and I fell asleep in the cinema and when we woke up it was STILL going - very disappointed. I think we left before the end, which is something i never do - I even sat through the whole of 'Birth' and 'Passion of the Christ'.nietzsche
Masterpiece indeed, it begins a little slow but at the end you'lle be baffled, I know I wasShowing items 1 – 15 of 16