By now I've grown accustomed to the slow Romanian "dramas" which focus far too much attention on the quotidian, eventually coming to a point of interest and/or explanation which just barely makes the preceding worth it. This one goes Police, Adjective one better...it's an hour longer which makes the build-up even more excruciatingly boring.
Here we follow a deeply repressed, passive-aggressive loser around as he plots to kill people who have annoyed him in his life. Almost no dialogue. What there is is pointless and boring and seems to have no bearing on the murders this guy commits.
No one seems to know how to deal with this character...even though his behavior is way off in several scenes no one calls the police. When he does turn himself in the scenes in the police station do act as a commentary on the hopeless inefficiency of the bureaucracy but everyone we see has the same deadened affect. Is this the way people in Romania behave? Have they become this brain-dead as a people?
This film was a struggle to get through and although I found watching it an unpleasant experience I doubt if I'll forget it. Faint praise that.
5
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