Quite an unexpected movie and I was pleasantly surprised to see how good the acting was. I liked the style of the director as well, I like to see uncomfortable silences and beautiful landscapes where poorly dressed prisoners labour. It's realistic. I think there's a time for comedies and fantasy movies to disconnect from reality, and a time for movies that show us sad or cruel parts of society. And I think this movie succeeded at showing some.
I didn't like the way Ana was depicted. There's no insight into her life, into how she felt to be in that situation without her consent. The same goes for the mother. We see the anger of the son but not the mother's story. Why is it all her fault? Where's the father? Why is she judged for being a bad parent but the father is not included in that conversation? Unfortunately, like a lot of Romanian movies, it proliferates the same old sexist tropes. Yes, it is a tragedy that so many children grow up without their parents and in poverty, surrounded by violence but that's a failure on the part of society in general and how we perceive parenting to only be the mother's job. It's a failure of the prison system as well, which practically ensures that few prisoners actually reform.
I would've liked to hear other opinions too, to better judge how justified Silviu's anger was. And I just couldn't believe that the police didn't do more to help Ana. Would they really be that incompetent in real life? I hope they would at least try something.
I didn't like the way Ana was depicted. There's no insight into her life, into how she felt to be in that situation without her consent. The same goes for the mother. We see the anger of the son but not the mother's story. Why is it all her fault? Where's the father? Why is she judged for being a bad parent but the father is not included in that conversation? Unfortunately, like a lot of Romanian movies, it proliferates the same old sexist tropes. Yes, it is a tragedy that so many children grow up without their parents and in poverty, surrounded by violence but that's a failure on the part of society in general and how we perceive parenting to only be the mother's job. It's a failure of the prison system as well, which practically ensures that few prisoners actually reform.
I would've liked to hear other opinions too, to better judge how justified Silviu's anger was. And I just couldn't believe that the police didn't do more to help Ana. Would they really be that incompetent in real life? I hope they would at least try something.