Hi,
For me again this is more than a movie. Like somebody already said: this is the kind of movie that make you use your brain and connect with your emotions.
Romanian movies are usually not EASY !!!! I like this. This time also: at the beginning I was not at all impressed, nothing new, just poverty, corruption, etc... but at the end WOWWW!!! what was this. Did you realized how many subtle things happen in the movie ??? Have you seen them ? Great psychology.
Some of them I was enchanted to discover by myself : Doiaru apear like the most corrupted person. With no values, principles. Was it really?
Remember about his childhood: into the WW2 his parents owned a factory. His family (like everybody) were waiting for the Americans to get saved. When Russians came, his parents were imprisoned because they had a factory. The scene with separation from his parents - last time he saw them - was important.
That's why (my opinion) he wanted desperately to get that factory.
It was not corruption: he refuse 2000 $/parai to let them leave.
And he risk (and loose) his function: chief of the railway station - because he was stubborn: refuse to obey the order of all his superiors. Why ??????
The answer was in the most important PHRASE of the movie (my opinion). Everything became clear in my head after hearing this phrase and WOWW - what a movie.
The scene when Doiaru and captain (or general) were eating in Doiaru's kitchen. They were eating "sarmale" and Doiaru explain to the captain how they are made.
"You mince the meat and you get a paste." - than electricity ïs cut off, - after a break he continues shocking "That's probably what those people in Yugoslavia look like"
So Doiaru didn't let the Americans go (with all costs) because he hated them for what they are doing in Yugoslavia (beside the fact that he waited them in vain for a life). And it was really the case: romanian society thought like this.
For me again this is more than a movie. Like somebody already said: this is the kind of movie that make you use your brain and connect with your emotions.
Romanian movies are usually not EASY !!!! I like this. This time also: at the beginning I was not at all impressed, nothing new, just poverty, corruption, etc... but at the end WOWWW!!! what was this. Did you realized how many subtle things happen in the movie ??? Have you seen them ? Great psychology.
Some of them I was enchanted to discover by myself : Doiaru apear like the most corrupted person. With no values, principles. Was it really?
- Doiaru wanted desperately to get that factory !!! He was even able to bankrupt it and put in danger all the workers. Why ???
Remember about his childhood: into the WW2 his parents owned a factory. His family (like everybody) were waiting for the Americans to get saved. When Russians came, his parents were imprisoned because they had a factory. The scene with separation from his parents - last time he saw them - was important.
That's why (my opinion) he wanted desperately to get that factory.
- why Doiaru didn't allow the Americans to leave the village.
It was not corruption: he refuse 2000 $/parai to let them leave.
And he risk (and loose) his function: chief of the railway station - because he was stubborn: refuse to obey the order of all his superiors. Why ??????
The answer was in the most important PHRASE of the movie (my opinion). Everything became clear in my head after hearing this phrase and WOWW - what a movie.
The scene when Doiaru and captain (or general) were eating in Doiaru's kitchen. They were eating "sarmale" and Doiaru explain to the captain how they are made.
"You mince the meat and you get a paste." - than electricity ïs cut off, - after a break he continues shocking "That's probably what those people in Yugoslavia look like"
So Doiaru didn't let the Americans go (with all costs) because he hated them for what they are doing in Yugoslavia (beside the fact that he waited them in vain for a life). And it was really the case: romanian society thought like this.