Saturday, June 20, 2009

Stuff and Dough

Romania

Here we follow some twenty-something losers as they get caught up in some kind of smuggling racket. They encounter violence and unexpected difficulties in their crude introduction to real life.

Two problems for me: These three characters were such bone-headed morons, continually making the wrong, stupid decisions. It was hard for me to find sympathy for them. And the entire film was done with hand-held camera with loud ambient sound...like a crude dogma 95 film. Not fatal flaws but they did hurt. Strong sense of immediacy and verisimilitude helped make up for the second flaw. The two guys were meatheads though.

Turns out Romania is like a lower rent Central Falls.

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