This is a fascinatingly "real" movie.
The slowness and the still shots created an incredibly genuine atmosphere which smoothly leads you through the ordeal the leading character went through side by side. This is a scornful satire and outcry against how the corrupt communist regime and the masculine Romanian society oppressed and bullied women who were placed in helplessly vulnerable situations in relation to developing their potentials and maintaining their sexual integrity and autonomy.
I particularly appreciate the couple of occasions in which the director created an utmost sense of emergency which, quite surprisingly, turned out to be false alarms. The fumbling into the dark to look for a place to scrap the foetus, the belated return to the hotel room, the ambulance outside the hotel room, etc ..the ultimate prevention of the tentalisingly real tragedies from happening on the contrary left enormous rooms for the audience to imagine how bad things could have gone and how dangerous it could have been to the women involved. Not letting the audience see those eventualities on screen was surprisingly and extremely spine-chilling and disturbing. A great movie with a hidden sense of feminist irony and frustration.
The slowness and the still shots created an incredibly genuine atmosphere which smoothly leads you through the ordeal the leading character went through side by side. This is a scornful satire and outcry against how the corrupt communist regime and the masculine Romanian society oppressed and bullied women who were placed in helplessly vulnerable situations in relation to developing their potentials and maintaining their sexual integrity and autonomy.
I particularly appreciate the couple of occasions in which the director created an utmost sense of emergency which, quite surprisingly, turned out to be false alarms. The fumbling into the dark to look for a place to scrap the foetus, the belated return to the hotel room, the ambulance outside the hotel room, etc ..the ultimate prevention of the tentalisingly real tragedies from happening on the contrary left enormous rooms for the audience to imagine how bad things could have gone and how dangerous it could have been to the women involved. Not letting the audience see those eventualities on screen was surprisingly and extremely spine-chilling and disturbing. A great movie with a hidden sense of feminist irony and frustration.