This is a film with a lot of potential, well done and acted, with a rather week and inconsistent script. A young woman with two children moves to her mother's cramped apartment, because the husbands flat on top of the workshop where he cuts up stolen cars is aggravating their son's asthma.Husband ends up in jail when an ex pat's stolen car is traced to his shop, ex pat ends up being kind,generous and naive shmoe(and rather cardboard and we learn next to nothing of him ), but ends up with the girl, who "trades up" despite being sexually satisfied only by her husband. I expect this film to be successful in Czech, where it will be welcome due to its obvious premise - "Them ex-pats may have money, they may even get our women, but they're old, soft and our women want to be satisfied,we may be poor, but ... . Now if only could Evzen keep Marcela satisfied so she would not need to play with herself, or if he already had an existing family in Italy ... but that would complicate things.
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Zralok v hlave
(2004)
Toothless "Shark" swims in a shallow, lukewarm water
23 September 2005
With a tighter script this film might have worked better as a theater play, since it takes place inside a ground floor apartment or on a street level in front of the building. The film presents a man's slide into mental illness, but the slide is not terribly disturbing or particularly frightening. Neither do we learn very much about him, there is some allusion to his mother and his education, but that's it. Other people come and go , not that we get to know them or what makes them tick. His presence on the street appears not to frighten anybody, and he has no hygiene problems (even his sandal clad feet and toenails are clean !) despite messing around with garbage cans. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with severely mentally ill may find this rather likable fellow not particularly believable.There are some interesting animation sequences though.
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